Mr. Dennis Swingle spoke at the October 28th city council meeting in support of Mayor Mavis’s proposed outer belt which appeared in an article in The Mt Vernon News. Councilman Mike Hillier interrupted Mr. Swingle to say he spoke with the land owner on three separate occasions who said “he does not intend in any way shape or form to have a road across his property, there is no deal and will be no deal”, so the proposed outer belt cannot be built unless the city moves to take the land needed by eminent domain.