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able to once - after 24 years - bring my yard down to where it matches the street. We hope that we can have this improvement as nine out of ten of us - without benefit of petitions - have been able to accomplish. We think that as long term residents - we came here hoping to make this our home for the rest of our lives and we hope to do it. I would hope - before I pass this earthly vail - that I will see a decent curb and gutter on our street. I thank you. MAYOR DEMOS: Is there anyone else? MRS. SANDY KING, 2835 Galtier: I was the petitioner on this matter. I am a little bit upset at the moment because of a few things that were said. whoever said that I contacted them three times - I wish they would notify me. I did not contact anybody if they told me no. There was no pressure. I think I was invited into two or three homes. One couple asked me in - I was there for about a half an hour - and they asked me more questions than I really could answer. They did sign the petition - decided they were in favor of it. I didn't pressure anybody - if anyone says I did, I wish they'd speak with me because if someone said no to me, I left. That's all there was to it. I did contact, I think, a couple of people twice only because I did not hear back from them and I just wondered if they cared to indicate one way or the other. That was the only time I did contact someone more than once. As far as telling somebody it would cost $600.00 - under oath I did not. I was told by the City Engineer - had it on paper - that the cost would vary, that an average cost is $12.00 to $15.00 a foot, that the last couple of years have been lower but there's no guarantee. I said an average cost is $800 to $1,000 - it could be lower if the prices have been comparable to the last few years - but I said there is no way of guaranteeing that. I have counted the potholes on our street - if you divide our block into half - the south end and the north end - there is one pothole in the south end, there are nine potholes in the north end - and they were filled the other day. But there are nine of them there. I counted them. I think several other people have counted too. Ar~body can come to Galtier and count the nine potholes down there. I would like to ask all of the people who are opposed - how many of you are anticipating leaving the neighborhood within the next say five years? I don't know. WOMAN IN AUDIENCE: We still have to pay for it. MRS. KING: I realize that. I'm just trying to think - hopefully intelligently - if I'm going to plan to live there for ten or fifteen years - or even for five years - I know - look at the way the economy has been going. I don't want to have to - in three or four or seven years - have to pay two, three or four times this amount to have the street done. I'd rather. pay the money right now - the $800.00. To me that's -8-