M.A. Mortenson Co. and the Metropolitan Sports Facilities Authority are at odds over change orders.

Met Council considers building just the footings for the $6 million structure at the Downtown East light ral platform.

The Metropolitan Council left discussion of a deal for the pedestrian bridge linking the Vikings stadium and the Downtown East light rail stop off its meeting agenda.

The deal calls for the Met Council to pay the entire cost to build and maintain the bridge, which would pass over the light rail tracks at Fourth Street and Chicago Avenue.

The Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority approved a deal with the city of Minneapolis to acquire portions of Fourth and Fifth streets in the project area to assemble additional land needed for the stadium.

After Minneapolis activist Doug Mann’s court challenge to the new Vikings stadium forced yet another postponement of a critical bond sale, state officials, project boosters and more than a few bellicose Vikings fans wasted no time in deriding Mann as a frivolous publicity hound.

The Minnesota Vikings franchise and the public authority that will own its new home are working to break ground on the downtown Minneapolis stadium later this year. But Gov. Mark Dayton’s call for an inquiry into the team’s finances is complicating an already difficult set of negotiations over final agreements for the use and financing of the stadium.