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best I can. This is an underground electric system. As such, Northern States Power normally does not provide any above ground street lighting where the wires are going through the air. Through the insistence of the people, and to some degree the city, Northern States Power put in three street lights in the past and they indicated this is a temporary situation and the lights may not stay there because it does not conform to their policy. After the petition was presented we went to Northern States Power and had them layout a street lighting system which is shown on the map with the little black dots. They laid this out to conform to their standards, and have all the poles that would be needed fall on lot lines so it wouldn't be in the middle of someone's lot with a picture window looking at the pole. They did design this to a rather high standard. It is slightly higher than the last lighting system that went in over in the Ban Con area in Heatherwood. There the lights were approximately 230 to 240 feet apart. These are closer to 150 apart. To continue on our discussion, Northern States Power would be the ones to actually install the street lights if the project were ordered. There would be no ~ediate capital expense to the city. There would, however, be a continuing expense from now on of a little over $67 per light per year forever, or more likely until Northern States raised the rates at which point it would go up even higher. Now, if this were not an underground electrical system, the property owners, without going through a petition, could corne into the office and say we would like street lights on the corners or approximately 600 feet apart and this is what we say anyone in the city can do and there would be no expense to the property owners as far as a direct assessment. MAYOR LINEBARGER: That would be an underground system? MR. HONCHELL: If this were not an underground system. But since it is an underground area, Northern States Power will not install those kinds of lights so we have to go to a some- what higher system. Their proposal calls for 14 lights. This is eight over what you could have had if you lived somewhere else. We have developed three potential ways to have an assess- ment procedure on this project. Plan I would be to say, all right, there are 14 lights here and normally we would be willing to pick up $55 per pole if it was somewhere else, so that only leaves $12 and some difference for each pole. You can multiply that times the 14 lights and get a cost per year, throw in a 2