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16 . MAYOR CREPEAU: Anyone else have a question or comment? Anyone from the Council have a question or comment on any sllbject? COUNCILMAN HANSON: J: have some information that hasn't been discussed that I'd like to add. In discussing these matters with our engineer, Don Ohristoffersen, he informs me that County Road Eis a county State Aid Road and as such, we could expect to get some help from the state on the variety. of improvements on that road, mainly they would (inaudible) to pay partially the cost of traffic signals and any street. lighting at intersections, sidewalks that were added for safety,. and cost of relocating driveways, the cost of building the medians, and any acquisition of right-of-way cost. Looking at the Interim Design that the committee recoIDIIiended, the three items that are appropriate within that grouping would be the roadway expense of $28,500, the sidewalk of $31,900, and the street lighting of $110,000 which adds up to $170,400. . The other information I would like to add is that con- sidering all of those things are necessary from a safety standpoint, that we could utilize our Municipal State Aid account of Arden Hills if the county didn't see fit to participate and at the present time our account with the state' includes an amount of $223,000, rough figures, which is available at this time. I don't know how much greater it might be next year by the time the project would be paid for, but 'it would be considerably higher. We have some plans to usei' that money, but we're getting to the point in that relationship where 'we're going to lose some (inaudible) if we don't proceed to (inaudible) . so I think it looks practical to use part or all' of that aid money for those three items which would be roughly one-third of the total cost, and then if we followed the recommendation of the committee ,to share the balance, it would end up abGut $184,000 that we would be paying out of the general taxes and if we got it down to that (inaudible) I'd certainly recommend 15 years rather than 20. MAYOR CREPEAU: Thank you. Anyone else? COUNCILMAN CRICHTON: I had a couple of questions., One of them is to Mr. Van Wormer. In the (inaudible) of discussion of the potential new road into (inaudible) out of Mr. Carroll's, through the St. Paul Book (inaudible) I think that both Mr. Carroll and Mr. Engelbert indicated a general agreement. MR. VAN WORMER:' I said as a concept (inaudible) agreement. COUNCILMAN CRICHTON: The other question - I didn't quite