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'"....:' '>"" :~; _~- ,,"''"1 ,'~' ' - - :'<'.' .~ :~~,':--'~~~1!~~, ~:;f?\~.-. '::~i::?:~~\~}~tA;- .; . ' ~'.' - . MR. ROBERT HANSON, 1850 Glen Paul Ro.dt I don't have II\Y particular objection to sewers. However, I have hurd a let of "lis" .nd "maybe's" to the extent that $350,000 is a figuu that has been kicked around here and in my house that's' lot' . of money. You say the.e are estimated figure.. I have aome hes~- tation in going along with it inasmuch aa we're forced into a position where we're puttingthe cart before thehor.e whieh you stated that you couldn't sublet bids or whatever you call it, until the program was initiated and furthermore the a..eument YlOuld not arrive until next fall and betwe.n now and then the cost cf labor and materials eeuld even be double what they are now. We don't know what tha future holds and under that basis it'. a peint well taken that in a program of thismagniture without any stronger . definiteness about costs or the settlement of many of these if, and maybea that I for one hesitate to proceed. MAYOR ASHtw::Ht Suppose we take bids. Suppesathey go over our estimates. We don't have to award the contract. \lie sit back and see what eaused it and readvertise. I hate to say things are going to happen beeauee I cannot say and no one can say. Ho.ever, if we take bide and they are considerably le.. than we estimated, fine. Then you know your cost illllllldiately- what the cost w1l1be - then we can deterllline whether we want to go ahead or not, but if they're way overhead, .e reject them. M\. HANSON: I can eppreeiateyour position but I say in the magniture of the moftey we'rekieking around here this evening and as you .tated just a second ago that you couldn't be definite about . it, I say that is the one drawback and fallacy of the program 1& over. I would say, 50~ of the qu.stlons asked tonight did not obtain a definite answer to the.. It was an "if" or a "maybe" or