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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council September 25, 2006 Page 23 performing arts theaters in there. One is $5 million. It is phenomenal. They are building restaurants and coffee shops. As the Mayor said, we need to at least have an auditorium where we can have events very modestly. Roll Call: AYES: None NAYS: All Motion Failed Motion to authorize an expenditure in the amount of $4,200.00 to TMS Engineers, Inc. for professional engineering services to perform a traffic study on Raleigh Drive. Mrs. Mills, seconded by Mrs. Cinco, made a motion to authorize an expenditure in the amount of $4,200.00 to TMS Engineers, Inc. for professional engineering services to perform a traffic study on Raleigh Drive. Council President Buckholtz asked if there was any discussion. Mayor Rinker explained that this is regarding the possibility of relocating Raleigh which we have broached before. We have had initial contact with a number of residents in the area. The goal is to be able to convene a neighborhood meeting so that we can get some further input from residents in the area who are typically in and out of Raleigh and whose streets are affected by anyone else in this intersection. What started this was that everyone recognized the offset there. It is pretty lousy with Beta. One of the things we looked at is to improve traffic safety and safety for the residents as well as anyone else traveling on the streets by improving the functionality of the intersection. With that thought in mind we are acquiring some property so that we can improve traffic safety. Whether or not we would then keep Raleigh as two way in and out, whether we can simply block it off entirely, whether we would have in only or out only, this TMS study is intended to give us some foundational information. When we go talk with some of these residents, we will have some people who would love to have it closed, we will have some others who will shriek if they thought we would close it and right down the line. The goal is to at least have some kind of objective information to show that we have had some analysis. We will add to that fire and police input. Tom Cappello has done an initial evaluation as far as an engineering design that says we can do it by just acquiring one property against the Murphy property that is located right off of .Beta. The goal is ultimately to come away with something that everyone can agree on. It will be a real improvement. This is foundational for that and allows us to go to the residents and come back to this Council later on with an overall proposition. Roll Call: AYES: All Motion Carried NAYS: None Expenditure Authorized