COEUR d'ALENE - McEuen Field is a big, fat no for City Councilman Ron Edinger.

Every time.

The Council President, up for reelection this November, kept his hard line against any and all things related to McEuen Field Tuesday night, voting against the city's fiscal year 2010-2011 budget amendment because the proposal by the finance department including shifting dollars to pay for the McEuen Field topographic survey that's already underway.

"I didn't approve McEuen Field," Edinger reminded, maybe even scolded, Finance Director Troy Tymesen, who presented the council with the amendment proposal. "The other members of the council did."

Budget amendments are required before the fiscal year ends Sept. 30. It adjusts the final financial numbers that weren't included in the original financial plan, which were estimated before the year began.

The amendments for the plan included $3.5 million in changes, including accepting $1.1 million in grants.

The McEuen costs included $39,000 for the topography study on the park, and an $84,500 pot to help pay for a traffic study there.

The projects the other amended dollars called for — such as fronting cash for nonprofit properties that will be paid back and energy improvements at City Hall — have already been approved by City Council individually throughout the year as they came up.

Tymesen reminded the Council of the approvals, and that the amending process was just putting those expenditures in official, end-of-the-year writing.

That reminder spurred Edinger to remind Tymesen who actually voted for what, which is to say, Edinger didn't vote for McEuen Field.

Tymesen acknowledged that Edinger didn't vote for McEuen Field, and apologized for the saying so.

"That's right," Edinger repeated.