I'm wearing three hats. I'm not only the project manager, I'm the area engineer for Dakota County, and I'm also the project coordinator for the construction side or the CMGC side.

No, Robert, you can't build it that way. You can't do it that way. We can build it this way.

Our project purpose, our purpose and need to help the people and goods travel safely and efficiently along 61 using all types of transportation while keeping the road in good condition and supporting connections between the communities.

Construction we're seeing now as we've got the contractor on board that this is going to be a 2-year project. We know for a fact. We tried to see if we could do it in 1 and 1/2 years. It's just not going to happen. This is a 2-year project.

So, the roundabouts two full-size roundabouts are going to be added at 61.

Keep moving. Get out of that roundabout. Get out of their way.

We are going to make that median mountable. So, it's going to be a mountable median. So, that 5% of time or left less that you do have to make that movement, you'll the fire department will have a light there with a with a flashing beacon and they can mount it.

I I just hope that you will be thinking about salt-resistant vegetation.

That retaining wall, as you guys know, is at about a 35° angle and it's failing. The old tunnel that's under the road is failing.

We know this is going to be um really hard on a community for 2 years.

The reason I'm asking is the block off of a million to the east and 7th and this this whole thing is causing me to think about moving.

I've seen other businesses and land owners benefit from a road project like this. I've seen Ford dealerships move to a mall and sell their cars out of the mall parking lot while we did the construction and boom through the whole time.

A lot of times when we have an issue with with 61, uh our comment in the last decade has been "We'll fix it when the trunk highway project comes through.

We need to get a right of entry signed by you. So, for us to have a contractor go our contractor to go in onto the property to do their work to replace those services up to the property line, they need to get access to do that.

I do not want to build this project and then have someone say, "Well, I didn't know about this.

We're still under funded. We're less than half funded. We're still working hard to get it this funded...

But this was a project of merit, which is a like it was rated very high nationally, but did not actually receive the money.

We're trying to make this a legacy project for Hastings. We're trying to give you guys the Cadillac project here if we can. We can. If not, we're going to go back to the Volkswagen Beetle and do it.

Uniqueness of a CMGC project. We have the contractor on board. I can let a small little project like the crossovers and the retaining wall at the bridge if we agree to numbers right now and let a small portion of this project with the contractor that we have on board now in '27.