[Music] Welcome to Agenda Edina, a program summarizing the actions taken at city hall that affect you most. I'm your host, Dorothia Marty. A new pedestrian bridge over Minnesota Highway 62 will likely not have stairs to accompany its ADA compliant ramps. This is unless the project comes in greatly under budget or another funding source is secured. The current bridge was built in the 1960s and is owned and managed by the Minnesota Department of Transportation. The bridge currently does not meet requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act and was closed for most of 2022 after it was struck twice by trucks traveling below on the highway. The state will provide $6 million in funding for the new bridge, which would then be given to the city to own and maintain. Designs for the bridge, which drops into Rosland Park, are about 30% complete and far enough along for the city to begin discussions with Mindot about the details, including height, location, construction, staging, and architectural cladding or covering. The cladding is particularly important to some members of the city council who would like the bridge to serve as an iconic gateway into the community. Designs by project architect Snow Kryik feature a steel truss bridge clad in wood slats. At a city council meeting earlier this month, engineering director Chad Milner said the $6 million will not cover the cost of stairs or bury nearby overhead power lines. We're right at that budget number right now with just a little bit of contingency for those unknown things that we always find during construction. Could be soils, could be other construction contingencies that we see. A little bit more expensive than we had liked, but we're still going to get a great product at the end with bridges and ramps and most likely not stairs or buried power lines. If final approvals are given this year, the city could move forward with obtaining bids for construction in 2026.