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an excellent compromise solution to a difficult problem which will also be of great long term benefit to the City and all the people involved. I'm in favor of it as proposed and I move that it be ordered. COUNCILMEMBER KEHR: I feel that what we have here are 5 or 6 people that have shown resistance to it, they also indicated tonight that they would like to have it tabled so that they could have more time to review it more thoroughly, and I would like to suggest that we grant them that extra time. From all indications here this evening, I think they feel they've had a very short time to review it and I think it would be better to defer it for a while, let the people involved discuss it and then get back to the engineering department. COUNCILMEMBER CURLEY: I would like to make a few remarks. I've sat up here for a long time and gone through lots and lots of sewer meetings. I wish we could say we got through a hearing and asked how many people wanted this and they'd all say "Yeah", hurry up. That certainly would make it easy, but it doesn't work that way, there is always somebody who needs it and then there are some who don't want it and others who say that nothing is ever going to happen. Its very easy to sit there and say its never going to happen, but I will tell you with this sewer improvement, it just might make it happen, and you might get some fast offers for some of this land and you might be very happy about it in the future. I can remember the time when we were putting water in, and one gentlemen stood up and said I really don't want water, I've got a 150 foot well, and he was very hostile about it. I can remember when the water was coming up the street and his well went dry. So think about that. I'm not trying to be funny or smart, things can and do happen. I therefore think I will second Councilmember Johnson's motion. JOHNSON: Charlie, if this project is ordered now, when will it go in? HONCHELL: This fall. JOHNSON: What if we delay this, say a month? Would it still go in this year? HONCHELL: Hopefully. It will take a good 60 days before we could get a contractor. And it's going to take him some time to go out, do the work, were looking at probably October construc- tion, if set right today. It depends upon whether they want to build in the fall. JOHNSON: Ordinarily I would say let them have the time to work it out, and get back to us, but I am concerned that waiting will get us past the October date.