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been there since the road was dug up numerous times for various things. Among other things, I'm a real estate appraiser and I've been in quite a few of the homes in Roseville and I guess I take issue with the fact that - I'd hate to see (inaudible) in my business - values are going up. Our value is going down. I'd like to see the increase in values through all of Roseville. Last year my statistics show that the average house sale was three percent less in 1982. I don't think that's a healthy sign for our City. I like Roseville. The increase in value doesn't necessarily mean that there's going to be an increase in taxes. It just means that Roseville will continue to be a better place to live in. I have a house listed for sale at 2736 Galtier. I hate to say how much money we spent in adver- tising. It's priced fairly but yet it hasn't sold. I think one of the problems - the reason it hasn't sold - is that it isn't as beautiful a looking street as it is in the summer when all of the trees are budded out, but it also would certainly look more appealing if it had curb and gutter. Really that's all I have to say except that I very strongly support the curb and gutter proposal. MAYOR DEMOS: Is there anyone else that wishes to be heard? I would like to answer a couple of statements. Reference was made to the numbers of people who have spoken against this at the initial hearing. (Inaudible) was that one person spoke in opposition at the initial hearing. Any statement which is intended to imply that this Council voted that improvement through in the face of overwhelming opposition is entirely wrong. The second statement is - that highway gas tax isn't for cities. It's for the State of Minnesota and state highways. When Governor Perpich refers to the fact that highways would not be built within communities (inaudible) he wasn't talking about your street. He was talking about the Snelling Avenues and other state highways. That statement has no relevance whatsoever to this situation. To say that this is not a permanent improvement (inaudible) far more permanent improve- ment than what you have, which was built (inaudible). It would put a proper base in. It would be a far more permanent street, guaranteed for 20 years, and the average life is 30 tcU 35. I would just like to make those statements because I feel it is wrong to get up here and make false statements. Another thing - the statement was made that people felt that they were (inaudible) as was done at the hearing at Fairview School. No vote was taken at the hearing at the Fairview School. There were individuals who went around and got petitions, where people indicated yes, no, etc. I want you to know that I personally took those petitions - I took every street and listed every house number and then I listed the people from each house who had signed the petition. They had one house, but I had five, six and seven people signing petitions from a household. Many of those people who signed those were minors. I didn't work at that haphazard - I did it very systematically. People came in and presented these -10-