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petitions and said - what was it - 80% of the people voted against it. That statement was untrue. When you took the households who voted against it, the statement was totally un- true. There was no vote taken at the Fairview School. A public hearing is for the purpose of people expressing their opinions. The Council then makes its decision based not only on that, but the financial data that's provided to them and the other issues of need, etc. We are not under the old-time (inaudible) form of government. At a certain time every year, all the people came and cast their votes. on all these things. We are under a representative form of government, whereby the people elect the representatives. I know some of you don't like (inaudible) but again I would say that a Council is expected to make an informed judgment. That's all I have to say. The hearing is closed. I would like to point out that at the last meeting there was a resolution for reconsideration - that's why we're here tonight. If it is not the Council's desire to change the action taken on March 14, no action is needed. If it is the Council's desire then to retract that, then there will have to be action taken at this meeting. COUNCILMAN KEHR: At the first public hearing that we had on this particular street, we had roughly 53% of the people that were in favor of the street. I voted for it. Subsequently, another petition was circulated. There again we had roughly 53% of the people that were opposed to it. We all have copies of both petitions. I took the time to study both petitions and I have found a lot of inaccuracies in both petitions. Therefore, I took it upon myself to contact each and every person that lives on Galtier Street - 33 of them - and I polled them myself. There were several people that I did not contact by phone - could not for some reason or other - so I made a trip to their homes and asked them personally how they felt about it. All I was interested in - are you for or opposed? That's the thing that I recorded. Out of the 33 homeowners - affected homeowners - and that includes each and everyone - I come up with 12 who are in favor of the improve- ment, which is 36.36%. Those that are opposed to this street improvement program, there were 21 or 63.64%. I feel that t~s poll that I personally took is an honest poll. That is the finding that I had after polling the people on the street, after reviewing both petitions. I wanted to make a fair judgment in my decision. The only way that I felt that I could do it was to poll the people personally, which I did. All of you that live on Galtier, you will recall that I was either at your home or contacted you by phone. My position at this time is that we retract that order and that we go with the majority. COUNCILMAN JOHNSON: Since I started this trouble last time by moving to reconsider - first of all I would like to speak to Mr. Reis. I enjoyed your letter and I thank you for sending it. If I lived on the street, I would totally agree with everything you said because I would be in favor of -11-