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. 1& 17 understand - perhaps the engineer or commitee can tell me - I gathered that if this total package were to include the underground utilities which the committee feels are essential, it's okay to have walkway lights, but if we have overhead lights which they don't want, then they want the walkway lights. MR. CHRISTOFFERSEN: I believe that recommendation came prior to them having full knowledge of the cost. I included that - the walkway lights - I was surprised when I figured it out myself. I included that to show what the cost would be if they did not have the street lights per se, and just used walkway lights every hundred feet. COUNCILMAN CRICHTON: In any of these plans you will have street lighting. MR. CHRISTOFFERSEN: The Interim Design, assuming that you do not bury the overhead utilities, with that plan the Task Force indicated they would like to have just walkway lights and I believe their intent was to keep all of the high type pOles off of the street and just use walkway lights and no street lights. . COUNCILMAN CRICHTON: Walkway lights alone are $210,000 and street lights are $110,000. MR. CHRISTOFFERSEN: Because there are more walkway lights. FROM THE AUDIENCE: I don't think that's what the committee intended. If we don't go with the whole plan the committee is recommending no action at all. MAYOR CREPEAU: If no underground utilities being buried, they recommend no action. COUNCILMAN WOODBURN: Mr. (~naudible) and said he contacted at least six families in the neighborhood who, along with him, were against the project as he understood it, and I thought I'd give that information for the record since he asked me to. COUNCILMAN HANSON: I'd like to add a few comments that disagree slightly with what has been presented. My recollection of how this project started was that we were concerned about the lack of uniformity or aesthetic appearance of signs and landscaping rather than the traffic. By the time we had our first meeting, which has incidentally been the only expense outright for the city - I believe the city popped for lunch that day - at that point the people that work along the street there brought out the fact that they were concerned about the speed, and from there, when the committee started working on it, traffic circu- lation became an important consideration also so that those of us that have been alarmed at the way the costs have developed and have reflected responsibility on the part of city participation, have to remember that shortly after the committee began its work it became a different project - not just the initial one where