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, I'm going to leave the floor open for comments for awhile, instead of closing to comments. My recollection of Arden Hil11tes is that they always come up with some more ideas; so 'we'll leave it open. We'll go to the Council for any questions or comments. The proposal to be looked at tonight, if it's not held over, is to order the improvement. It would not be constructed nor would it be assessed for some length of time, and the figures that you heard mentioned tonight are not the assessment figures. and may not be real at all. There may not even be an assessment if that is legally possible, for sure, but we do have to present what seemed to be the worst case figures on something like this. It's necessary, legally necessary in a 429 procedure, in essence. COUNCILWOMAN RAUENHORST: I have a question re concerns about the areas to be assessed. It was my position that we should be ~ sending public notices to a larger group of homes and property owners than we have. Are we precluded from assessing a larger area - after tonight, we cannot expand the assessment area; if we order the improvement, it is based on this assessment area. MAYOR WOODBURN: It can be expanded with another public hearing. The audience should know that that was a very strong, in fact the Council took a position that the whole north area should get notices of an assessment hearing because they might be assessed. There were several factors that mitigated against that and there was a reversal of the Council's opinion at the next meeting. I think it seemed perfectly logical to many of us to assess the whole area with a small assessment - the area that was contributing toward the drainage, but it doesn't seem too logical to the ~ourts apparently. They threw out that kind of assessment to houses that already had benefit. In other words, they have sewer now; so, they aren't benefitted by sewer even if the sewer is too small, they can still flush it and it may run over downstream; so, sewered property cannot be assessed, if the Duluth case is applicable, and apparently it is. This is one of the things we've been over. Of course the bulk of this, no matter which way you cut it, is going on general taxes, not on the home owners; although individual home owners could see an assessment, individual property owners rather, not on the home owners. (NAME INAUDIBLE): Am 1 understanding you correctly that according to the Duluth case, or whatever it is, none of the people to the north could be taxed? MAYOR WOODBURN: No, - assessed. (NAME INAUDIBLE): Assessed. Excuse me, but its possibly going to go on the general taxes. MAYOR WOODBURN: The houses that now have sewer the court says, it would be very difficult to prove their benefit, when they have sewer already, and, as such, they threw out the assessment on sewered houses. Even though it was a case similar to this where 8 ~