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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council Monday, February 19, 2018 Page 13 Mr. DiCicco stated, I get it. I understand that. Okay. The other thing was is that this was a plan from 2002. I know the plan changed from the south side of the river to the north side of the creek. That's all well and great. But that wasn't the master plan to connect this trail. If that was the case, why did you put this tunnel underneath the road? We are approving this plan to go forwaxd and then we just kind of dropped this thing. Council President Saponaro stated, again, we have to weigh everything out. It has to be brought in front of us. Mr. DiCicco stated, we are talking about $360,000-390,000. That tunnel was close to a million dollars. Council President Saponaro stated, the tunnel was needed regardless. We have to have the tunnel to get from one side of the street to the other. It is necessary. Mr. DiCicco stated, there's crosswalks all over the place. Council President Saponaro stated, that was the connectivity we decided. That was part of the process from the beginning. Mr. DiCicco stated, the tunnel was to continue this thing on. Council President Saponaro stated, you have asked a lot of questions. There's a lot to address there. It would take a longer time to do that. I appreciate your comments. We appreciate public comment. I would like to have public comment during the open portion. It makes the meeting easier. But I also understand that not everyone's familiar with how this works. I am happy to have commentary. If there are specific questions that anyone has that don't get answered at these meetings, you surely can reach any of the Council folks here. You can certainly reach out to Mrs. Betsa. Certainly, administration would be happy to field any questions and get responses back. So please feel free to if you have questions that need to be responded to. All that being said, I am going to close of public portion if that's okay. Just because I know that we have talked about it a lot. But I would like to address Council if there is anything else we need to address here. Dr. Parker stated, the only thing I would like to say again, if we decide to vote against this project, considering that we have people in there working and while we might still have to pay for it, there's a leverage of value to having been in there with all the work and if there is something we want to do that might enhance that area that doesn't affect them, this would be the time to say it Council President Saponaro stated, unfortunately this is not the time. The time would have been about almost a year ago. Dr. Parker stated, okay. I don't know. All I am saying is it wasn't a year ago that we were looking at changing the position of the walkway. If it can't be, that's fine.