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ORONO CITY COUNCIL MEETING HELD MAY 2£- 1991 ( #15)POLICE CHIEF SELECTION CONTINUED It was moved by Mayor Peterson, seconded by Butler, to adopt the position description prepared by James Brimeyer, of Sathe & Associates, and direct the consultant to include representatives from each of the cities and screen down to the final candidates based on preliminary interviews and that the contract cities use that representative as a non - voting member in the final interview process. Council appoints Lt. Cheswick as Acting Chief for the period from July 1, 1591. until a person has begun as the new police chief. * Butler asked if there would be .a change in Lt. Cheswick's pay scale after July lst. Bernhardson indicated that has not yet been considered or discussed. Butler stated that, a decision. whether there is a pay increase could be based on the amount of time Lt. Cheswick will be asked to serve in the capacity of Acting Chief. All voted aye. Motion passed.. ( #16)HIGHWAY 12 CORRIDOR STUDY Mayor Peterson thanked Ann and Dodd Cosgrove, and Bruce Carlson for their efforts. Bernhardson presented Council with the traffic study information from Howard, Needles, and Associates. that had been provided to the Policy, Technical, and Citizens CoMmittees. Bernhardson stated that the purpose of the next 'round of Committee meetings will be to more closely examine the traffic forecast numbers to see if they make sense, and to determine if any of the routes will not meet the anticipated. need. He said, "The forecasts do not really indicate what the best route i.s." Goetten stated that after the last meeting she attended, it seemed that MNDOT- was looking more seriously at the south bypass. She said, "I was trying to make the MNDOT representatives understand that such an alternative should be the least important route for them to consider. [4NDOT's thinking is that traffic now using County Road 15 would use the south bypass. As I understand it, the reason P1cCulley Road was upgraded was to allow traffic to go from Mound up to Highway 12, bypassing County Road 15. That, however', is not the case, because of the congestion on-Highway 12. I think the Council needs to prepare a statement specifying reasons why the south bypass should be eliminated from the alternatives." Butler suggested that it would be helpful for the citizens that have been involved in this process, to contact State Legislators and stress their viewpoints on this issue. She said. "The State Legislators need to be reminded that any new highway corridor will be extremely expensive to construct. The taxpayers of* Minnesota. will not be receptive to the idea of paying for yet another stretch of blacktop. It is my understanding that the State of Minnesota has more miles of blacktop per capita- than almost any other state in the,Country. Minnesota is not the most heavily populated State in the Country,.and we have a climate - 13 -