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Other Business Hay opened the meeting for questions from the audience. - G. Johnson asked if the uncertainty on the design of the highway (expressway vs. freeway) means that Mn/DOT has ruled out the option of toll road financing. Reply: No. However, there has been no decision to study this option for the TH 12 project, and in all likelihood, it will not be studied. The primaiy focus is upon the selection of a corridor with minimal adverse impact on each city. - R. Scheuer discussed Commissioner Levine’s 1989 announcement for a 1-year funding project and how it affects the current project s hedule; requested an elaboration on obtaining funds for the consultant to complete the EIS; and asked about the impact to the project if mutual agreements aie not possible between the panicipaiing juri.‘-'<ictions (at the end of the scoping process). Reply: The funds for the scoping prtject have been allocated. Even though ncuract execution took six months, a new schedule will not limit what will be accomplished in the study. T. Hi mbert explained how Mn/DO’? r^*tains and uses funds to hire consultants. Hay stated that Mn/DOT seeks City Council approval on final design plans and geemetnes, and that if continued support tor the project • cannot oe generated, it may choose to either by-pass the local governments / involved (case of extreme need) or place the project on a lower priority, which would indefinitely jeopardize its completion. Humbert added that Mn/DOT does not want to waste exocn^^d scoping/EIS efforts, and therefore seeks to obtain as mudi cooperation from affected jurisd etions as possible throughout the study to ensure a project’s comoletion. Next Meeting August 22, 1990, 5:30 p.m.. Maple Plain City Hall (all Policy Committee meetings ‘ .'1 be he' the fourth Wednesday of each month). Meeting adjournmeiit - 6: .30 p m. RDH/mst