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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, February 08, 2010 Page 24 shock that Calibre Ridge was unaware of the proposed grade of the road until now, and suggested the need to examine how that communication had failed. Barb McClellan, Calibre Ridge Ms. McClellan recognized the end of February deadline; however, asked that staff request that Ramsey County delay until mid-March to allow them to gather more information and return with a recommendation on the Calibre Ridge piece. Mark Goess, MnDOT Mr. Goess advised that, with a letting date in April, and construction start in June, and without looking at the proposed scheduled in more detail, he was reluctant to delay the project any further. At the request of Ms. McClellan, Mr. Goess confirmed that the project was almost fully funded, with the remaining $5 million funding included in current bonding bill hearings and included in the Governor's proposal, and if successful, the pro- ject would be fully funded with all pieces in place for construction later this sum- mer. Councilmember Johnson thanked residents for their attendance at tonight's meet- ing; expressing concern that there appeared to be past communication issues, but concurring with Mayor Klausing that this was an unusual situation, with original support and current opposition for construction of the noise wall. Councilmember Johnson suggested that the City Council consider this as two issues: the neighbor issue and the Calibre Ridge issue. How this had morphed into a split decision, Councilmember Johnson was unsure; however, he recognized that staff time and energy would be wasted in getting additional renderings. Councilmember John- son spoke in support of the wishes of the taxpayers, apparently overwhelmingly against construction of the wall. Councilmember Johnson reiterated the com- ments of Mayor Klausing and Councilmembers Ihlan, Roe and himself that no one was trying to sway the residents, but that they wanted to make sure they'd provided the best possible information available. Pust moved, for the Council to take action to provide notice to the appropriate agencies that the City Council supported not having the wall constructed where the majority of residents don't want it; noting that the wall further down past Ma- rion was a more complicated issue, but that such a partial motion would not ne- cessitate the majority of the residents to attend another meeting City Attorney Bartholdi advised that since previous Council action had been tak- en, this action would be a reconsideration of approved action; and since the City Council had adopted Rosenberg's Rules of Order at their January 4, 2010 meet- ing, these rules addressed whether reconsideration was done at the meeting or at a subsequent meeting. Mr. Barthold advised that, since this action was proposed at a later meeting, a motion was first in order by a majority to suspend the rules with