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. . 36 . Again, those are some decisions that must be made by the Council. ~~YOR ASHBACH: I might point out also that under this method of procedure by Council initiative it requires a four-fifths vote by the Council to go ahead. At that time they will ask the engineers to take bids. When the Council receives bids - the Council receives them _ they review the bids and if it-appears that they're excessive _ more than what we anticipated - the Council still has the prerogative of not going ahead. \'ie can revise and then take new bids. A lot of people have the mistaken idea that once bids are taken that you must proceed but the Council does not have to proceed if they're higher than what they think are reasonable. Yr.. HAmW SKILDEN, f'rden Place: I'd like to go on record as being very much in favor of the proposed project and hope the Council sees fit to go along with it. . . IR. JOHN RYSGAARD: I'd like to draw one comparison that Roger mentioned before, in comparing Falcon Heights to this area when he spoke of the soil conditions there being ideally suited for reconstruction of the streets. The people thought soil conditions were ideally suited for cesspools and at the hearing held there, there were a lot of people that said we don't need sewers - we have all sand and gravel here. Nevertheless when the program went through you couldn't get enough installers in there to keep up with the program in getting the hook ups to the homes and I think that if you would take a poll in Falcon Heights today you would find that 99;6 of the people are fully cognizant of the value of the sewer not only for the value dof hooking up but for the value of the property in the neighborhood itself and I think that would be magnified in an area like this where you have the clay.