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a block at a time here and there, so I just want to go on record as being in favor of it. MR. ROBERT GROSE, 2660 Farrington Street: I did take up the Council's suggestion of going around (inaudible) neighbors. In the time allowed, I did have trouble getting to everyone, but I did get to at least some of them (inaudible) and I guess lid like to mention some of the concerns - a couple of them have already been mentioned. One of them is the certain amount of procedure - I think that was sort of mentioned earlier - it was done eight months ago - that's my under- standing of when it went around. The information given out at that time from a pamphlet was a year or two years old. The people that I talked to - some of them had trouble under- standing this. I guess I felt that everybody I talked to - the majority that I talked to - whether they were for or against, as the gentlemen just mentioned - they didn't have all the facts. Even the people I surveyed had some qualms about which way they wanted to go. I just went around and asked if they were for or against - asked them to make comments (inaudible). Again, this may be procedure. I was not aware of this. I did make several calls down to the City Hall here trying to get information. The people I talked to were very helpful, but yet I didn't feel that I had all the methods that you were using for this. Some of us were of the feeling that there would be a vote in our neighborhood (inaudible). A lot of people felt that we were doing a survey. I realize, myself, that you do put a lot of time into something like this. I was able to get to 25 of 31 people. I don't feel that these statistics are necessarily valid, because people didn't have all the facts. Of the 31, 25 were surveyed, 12 were against, and you just heard another one saying he was for it, so we had ten for it, one undecided, we had two that were not applicable - in other words, they did not own the property or they were moving - someone else was moving in. In the last eight months I think we've all seen a neighbor or two that has lost their job - we've got some concerns there. We have young families in our neighborhood, senior citizens, the unemployed - these are all concerns. Again, going back to what information was given out (inaudible) $1,000 cost. For some of us that doesn't sound like too much, but there is that assessment and the other 75% is going to - that has to be paid somewhere. That's going to raise taxes. A lot of people, I don't feel, had that input. ACTING MAYOR JOHNSON: When the original petition came around, did you sign it? MR. GROSE: No, I did not. ACTING MAYOR JOHNSON: Does anybody else wish to speak to this one? -3-