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MAN IN AUDIENCE: (Inaudible) if you don't know that's available to you - how do you call for something you don't know about? MAN IN AUDIENCE: Can the residents vote on it right now? ACTING MAYOR JOHNSON: The concerned people, as we heard from the Council, made an attempt to be here tonight. May I see a show of hands from Farrington Street of the people who signed the petition originally, who have changed their minds. That signed for it and have changed their minds against. Has anybody changed the other way - signed against originally and is now for it? MR. RICHARD KOHNEN, 2708 Farrington Street: My only question is - if that feasibility study is available to the Council, why can't it not also be made available, by mail, to the concerned parties? We have a lot of other things coming out of this City to our house under postage stamps and whatnot. Why can't this also be sent to our houses, if it was available in January? COUNCILMAN KEHR: We received the information from Mr. Popovich this evening. This is the first time that we've received the actual costs. COUNCILMAN FRANKE: No, it's in the feasibility report. We received this on the 18th of January. MAYOR DEMOS: I'd like to address two or three subjects. Number one is the time element. If a petition comes in after the construction season has started, it is quite obvious that we are not going to order work to be done yet that year and take it into October and November and probably get rained or snowed out. Consequently, many petitions come into us in July or August of one year and, historically, we have these hearings at this point in time, allowing us to go to the bidding season for the next construction period. The information on that brochure - as someone pointed out - is not outdated. The Council has not changed its policy. It's written in accordance with that, so it is not outdated. I'd like to say something else on assessments. lid like to talk about how a City can reasonably and steadfastly keep its finances. I know you're talking to me about taxes, but this City didn't raise its taxes that much. 11m not here to condemn any other units of government, but don't blame it all on us and don't blame very much on us. When the legislature gets through with this next year, that may be another subject - when they take away our City's aids. That may be different, according to what they told us. But right now, this City is not to blame. Throughout the years, this City went through sani tary sewers, it went through water, it 1 S gone through -7-