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l:I1lTE'ES 0F ADJOD1UlED k:EETIlfG (;F 'HE COm:Cl1 OF IRE VIL:wl.GE OF liEDEl: hILLS, E.DXESO Jl\. Held in the Town Hall, Thursday, September 4, 1952 84 (35th Eee ting) ].;setin;:: called to order by :,Iayor Curillllings. ROLL C".11: CuruJIlings, DoelJner, Eack present; McClung and Delange absent. . l;r;m,ES: Mayor Cummings dispensed \'i th the reading c f the mi= tes of the AUtust 25th meeting. PEI'I:'IONS, REl.IONS'2RA11CES, EW.: (1) Vernon Smi th, wi th o~'hers, of Edgawata ....venue, submitted an oral request for blacktopping the incline of Edgawater Avenue for about 600 feet west fi'om Lexington ....venue, and, was told somet',ing would be done about it. (2) B~CKTOP?ING PROPOSAL: lIayor Cummings then addressed those present, who munbered about 60 exclusive of council members, as to the origin of the blacktopping proposal by Contractor Craig, after which Bob Ashbach, as member of the Public Works Committee, spoke. He said an 18 ft. width compacted to 2-1/2 inches of very hign grade asphalt would cost each abutting property owber $1.00. It developed that no written proposal from the contractor was available at the meeting. Milner Carley reported that he went OVer the streets in Arden Hills Nos. 1 and 2 Additions and suggested that we consider a compacted 2" blacktop to be sealed immediately, that we should also consider drainage as there are many places where it is not what it should be, also that we need drai~ge easements, also that there are many high level private driveways that should be lowered; on an assessment basis Carley thinks it is too late to undertake a project of this type, and that blacktop placed On a moist surface in lower than 6.50 temperatures w;uld be money thrown away; he also expressed the opinion t~at with the exception of one or two streets that we would be better off to correct drainage oonditions this fall, placing gravel where it obould be placed, and get them ready for a program next spring rather than this fall, that by doing blacktop work this fall we would be spending money where it positively will not hold up, and that fi'om long experience in t.b.is vicinity you. oannot bank: on weather that would justi fy blacktopping now and tha t he would rat her see the streets break up with a gravel job than with blacktop. In this oonnection the mayor read a letter dated August 2ith from Mr. Crampton of the County Surveyor's office, ana also excerpts from Carley!s two letters cfSept. 4th. . (At this point, 9:0.5 P.1,., Trustee liCClung arrived at the meeting.) Gerald Bu.etow of Arden Hills No. 2 Addi tion offered a motion, which being from a non-council member was out of order and was not seconded, that the villace council set up a procedure for a hearing for blaoktopping streets in Arden Hills Additions 1, 2 and 3. but no action was taken thereon. A petition signed by P. L. Pheilstioker and others for blaoktopping a stretch of their street in Arden Hills No.2 Addition was submitted to the council but no action was taken thereon at this meeting.