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It sometimes costs more to keep maintaining these roads than it would to build a new one. What's the life of a new road that we put in? MR. HONCHELL: The design life is for a 20 year pavement. We certainly like to think that the pavement is going to be around a lot longer than 20 years. We figure a 20 year pavement life. ACTING MAYOR JOHNSON: As the economy improves - it won't be with us that much longer - but youlre right - right now the assessments are coming in about 25% below - the bids are coming in about 25% below these estimates. That's been our experience now for about the last year and Mr. Honchell just confirmed that that's where we pretty much are right now. It's a good time to get the work done in that sense. MR. DONALD HOFSCHULTE, 2752 Farrington Street: I live on the corner of Iona Lane and Farrington. I have a couple of things - I keep adding to them - I wasn't able to get up and say them before. First of all, I donlt think this is just a cosmetic treatment to the area. I think it's a whole lot more than that. Anybody that just considers it cosmetic, I think, is missing the boat. There's some real value there. Also, when Mr. Langer contacted me last summer, I want to clear the air on something because there was a suggestion that possibly the facts were not properly represented. I want everybody to know that they were properly represented. I know Bob Langer - he lived there 18 years, I've lived there 25 - in fact, I think I was the first one on the block. I don't see him all that often, but I'll tell you - he properly represented the facts. He said that it could be $8.00 and it could be $12.00 and more than likely $12.00 - that's the way he put it to me. I don't think I have the figures that he gave me originally, but I do remember the $12.60 figure. I think that he properly represented what he was petitioning for. Insofar as the Mayor's comments on the cost of sending out a copy of the feasibility study - I don't think it's necessary to send. out a copy of the feasibility study to all of the concerned parties, but I do think a post card could be sent out to the concerned parties to tell them that a feasibility study has been made and is available. As far as the bids are concerned - I agree. I think we'd have gotten better bids even six months ago but the timing was such that you couldn't do it then. But I still think we're going to get good bids now. No question about it. One last comment that the Council may not like - but I have to say it anyhow because I'm standing and I have a chance to say it. I really do think that the Council perhaps could do a little bit more in the way of leading these improvements - in a more palatable way - to the taxpayers in the community. I think that - having backed off of street improvement as we did a number of years back, after getting your fingers burned - -9-