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. . , the sewer was inadequate, none-the-1ess. they got rid of it off their property; therefore benefit was difficult to show. Taxes can be Village-wide; would be Village-wide. Mrs.Winiecki. JEANNE WINIECKI: How do you justify an assessment through swamp that is supposed to be set aside for park dedication? under the tower? the and MAYOR WOODBURN: The people owning the tower agreed to any assessments, in writing. The Council saw to that; so. they'd be paying part that otherwise would be going on taxes. Mr. Winiecki. JIM WINIECKI: These people up north that won't be assessed. How did we get an assessment for the water when we don't have it? MAYOR WOODBURN: You were assessed for the main, not an assessment for water service to your house; service to your house could be another assessment. It's the same as happened in other parts of the Village - a large main comes in - one area is not ready for water, but the main has to be paid for, and you have to have it - let's assume you do; so the whole area is served by a main and is assessed for the main; and later on there may be an assessment on your street if water came down there to serve you directly. That is routine. JEANNE WINIECKI: How does that differ from the sewer that we are talking about? . MAYOR WOODBURN: I'm doing an awful lot of talking. I'm going to get Mr. Christoffersen to talk. MR. CHRISTOFFERSEN: In this particular case. you were charged an area charge; obviously the 12" main does not go in front of your house; to get water to your house. a 6" to 8" main would have to be extended to your property. By putting the 12" main in. it put water that much closer to your property and the area charge is assessed to get the water closer to you. that's the reasoning behind it. The same thing is applied to the south end of Round lake in the area we have described. There is a sewer going through, a large sewer. The area immediately adjacent to it, beyond the 200'. but within the service area is proposed to be assessed. Only those areas that would most likely connect diret1y to it, not the area, for instance. - say the rendering plant is already connected to an existing sewer built by New Brighton; that area would not be assessed, because it would receive no benefit. There is some area to the west, or to the east, that is remote from the sewer, and those properties along 1-694 are away from the sewer, but are still closer to the sewer line, and the sewer is deep enough to where little short prices can get it to them. While now, they have to go a long way away. I guess that's the rationale behind the area assessment. 9