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`: I'm goir�g to leave`the floor open for comments #or"awhile, II instead of closing to comments. My recollectfiofl of Arden Hill�ites I is that they always come up witfi some more ideas; so�we'11 leave I it open. We'11 go to the Council for any questions ow comments. ; ` The proposal to be looked at tonight, if it's not held over, � is to order the improvement. It would not be constructed nor would � � it be`assessed for some length of time, and the figures that'you j heard mentioned tonight are not`the assessment figures, and may not be real at all. There�may;not`even be an assessment if that � is legally possible, for sure, but we do have to present what � seemed to be the worst case figures on something like this. It's � nece'ssary, legally necessary in a 429 procedure, in essence. '� , ' , _ 'GOUNCILWOMAN RAUENHORST: 'I have'a question re concerns about , tfie areas to be assessed. It was my position that we should be ��I _ sending public notices to a`larger'group of homes.and property owners than we haVe.' Are we precluded from assessing a larger a,rea - aft.er tonight, we cann.ot expand the assessment area; if we order'#h'e improvement, it`is based on this assessment area. ; MAYOR WOODBIiRN: It can be expanded with another public hearing. The audience shou}d know that that was a very strong, in ' fact the Council'took a pasition that the whole north ar'ea should j get notices of an assessment hearing because they might be assessed.: There were several factors that mitigated against that and there I was a reversal of the Council'`s opi'nion at the next meeting. I ; think it seemed perfectly logical to many of us to assess the ' whole area with a small asse,ssment - the area that was contributing ' toward the drainage, but i`t doesn't seem too logical'to the courts �� apparently. They threw out that kind of assessment to houses that :, already had benefit.' In o`ther`words, they have sewer n'ow; so, ! they aren't benefitted by sewer eve'n if the"sewer is too smal`1, �i they can sti1T fl'ush it and it may run'over downstream; so, � sewere,d property cannot be assessed, if the Duluth case is applicable, and apparently it is. This is one of the things we've , been over.' Of course the buTk of this, no matter which way you cut �� it, is going on general taxes,"not on the home owners; although individual home owners could see an assessment,'individual property owners ra`ther, not orr the home'owners. ` ''; (NAME INAUDiBLE): Am I understanding you correctly'that ; according to the Dulutfi case, or whatever it is, none of the people � I to °the north 'coul d` be taxed? MAYOR WOObBURtJ: No, - assessed. - � (PJAME INAUDIBLE): Assessed. Excuse me, but its possibly going , to go on the general taxes: �,; { _ _ i MAYOR WOOD6URPJ: The houses that now `have sewer the°'court says, ' it would be very difficult to prove their benefit, when they`have I sewer already, and, as such, they threw`out the ass'essment on ' sewered houses. fven though it was a case similar to this where � _ � 8 : � _ _ _ _. v;.,