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I � � ❑ A?t. SHORT: H� can hcok on eithes placo. DR. EDWARD F. ':JALSH, 1a01 Forest Lane: 42 i'm for the project. I think there are many here that may have mor• confidenca in the ability af their present sewagQ system to sustain themselvea and I wcuid just wonder� frcm my own absezvation, I think �veryone has trouble with thQir systems, no mattez how fine; after a period of perhaps 7 cr 8 years. I think probably Dot Sekhen� frcm the many cr,mplaints he has had� can probably give an idea to those people who feel very ccmpcsed in their present wcrking system which I dcn't think is gring to hold cut, !�. EDvdIN SE�IARD, 1850 Grant Acad: 'Nhat is so wrong with � � taking a gote cn this in a democratic manner. Some peopla are more elcyuent than cthers. N�fi. PGPCV2CH: 7he rQason,ycu don't take a vc:te on an imprevement hearing cf this type is because a matter cf this type is not village- wide. In other w�rds, it cmly affeets a partieular poxtien of th� village and conseyuently� the cnly thinq that a village can do if it does hcld an election is tc hold it village-wide. You have cther oeople then vcting on a prcblem that is of inttrest only to you. No legal electien can ever be hQld in a portion of a village. Therefcre� the League cf N:inn�sota Municipalities some years ago - all the ccmmunities in the state banded tcgether and thi6 local imprcvement code was first passad in 1953 repealing all former acts and amended in 1959 in minor ways sc wo have baan working under a lceal 3mprovacnQnt ccda to allow improvements� whether stre�ts cr sewers� Curbs cr gutters, it ccvers anything that has to do with ir�Prcvements and alloivs 1t tc be done in porticns rf a viilag• sc you don�t have this prcblem of vcting. Only voting is requir�d if yc.0 decida to go into wattr. There an el�ction muet be held village-wid�