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MR. STEILEN: Yes, and we do advise our clients that. We have developing cities - (inaudible), Minnetrista - and some re- developing cities - St. Louis Park - and we are very careful about those kinds of issues. . COUNCIL~Ulli MULCAHY: Would it be your position that if this special assessment should be deemed to be in excess of the benefit that you would, therefore, have the right to punitive damages against the Council and the City? MR. STEILEN: Under 1983, we would potentially have that right. Whether we would choose to exercise it or not depends on the wishes of my clients and I have not asked them since that is so far off, if it's going to occur at all, and frankly we didn't come into the meeting with the idea of threatening and waving shotguns and so on. As Mr. Colestock said, we came to try and work things out and arrange meetings and so on, but to very firmly take our stand and it is not our intent to concentrate on threats. It is our intention to try and work things out and if we can't, we'll take our appeal and, as Mr. Popovich said, we'll let the courts work it out. MAYOR WOODBURN: (Inaudible) we're trying - with some back- ground too - figure out what is equitable. I guess our point is that equitability changes depending on where you are. MRS. KENNETH BOSS, 1315 Red Fox Road: I would like to say - Mr. Popovich said it depends on if the property is really aided by this thing. Mr. Christoffersen showed that holding thing there now that comes right down through our property, the same as it always did, only that you dug it deeper and dug it wider and didn't tell us you were going to do it. You said you were going to remove the weeds from our little stream that went through our property, so our property has been damaged by it. Nothing else has changed - only they're (inaudible) back of us there and draining it right all down through our property with no pipe. It would come through this ditch that they dug later. We're not industrial like they are. MAYOR WOODBURN: I was wondering about that. Have they widened that ditch or did they . . . . MRS. BOSS: They widened it, they knocked down some of our trees. We asked them special and Mr. Townsend said no - we're only going to take the leaves out. It's widened, it's deeper, there are big banks on each side of it and some of our trees are missing. Was everybody notified that this big thing was going to be built back there? We've never had one bit of notice about it, until we got the notice to come to this meeting. Mr. Townsend said there was going to be no charge for taking these leaves out of our stream. That's where we are and we have an assessment for $4755 on our acre and a half. MAYOR WOODBURN: You are the owners of your property - it's in your name? MRS. BOSS: Yes. 20