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<br />10 <br /> <br />Mr. Honchell, and would like to find out for myself, has the city <br />in the past ever reconstructed any streets at their expense. <br />What is the criteria? . <br /> <br />~~. HONCHELL: The City has not reconstructed streets at our <br />expense. The City has done some roadways as part of what's called a <br />base replacement program. Those are areas where we're back <br />repeatedly year after year, sometimes twice in one year fixing an <br />identical pothole on a large scale basis, and to avoid that, <br />certain areas have had work done where we tore up the existing <br />street, placed a new base under it, and doing so, had to put a <br />new surface on after the road was torn up. This was intended to <br />be a spot approach. In some cases as we would go from spot to <br />spot it did result in as much as a block or so being done. Even <br />that has been greatly curtailed and eliminated. We have soil <br />borings now on all of the anticipated base projects and fairly well <br />know we have limited this work. <br /> <br />~m. RUDIE: I think basically that's what we're talking about <br />on Oxford. It's two and a half blocks long and apparently it's a <br />maintenance problem. <br /> <br />MR. HONCHELL: No base problems to our knowledge. It's a <br />fairly routine road. The base program is not intended to re-do <br />all the streets in Roseville. It's only to do 2%, and then it <br />wasn't on a street block by block, but on a bad spot by bad spot <br />basis. I guess what you have is a deteriorating roadway, not a <br />bad base. <br /> <br />MR. ALVIN HAGEN, 2796 N. Oxford: I'm Jim's neighbor. I <br />have one of the blue houses, on the east side. I'm not going to <br />lose or gain, I feel, by putting in a street. r'm going against <br />all the rest. I think it should be done because if we keep <br />patching it up we will never have a good street and all we will have <br />is bumps instead of holes. <br /> <br />MRS. JOAN.CARRIER, 1040 West County Road C-2: Being very not <br />versed on engineering and so forth, I have a couple of questions. <br />You keep talking about a permanent roadway and maintenance costs. <br />Is it possible that a permanent road never needs any maintenance? <br /> <br />MR. HONCHELL: I wish I could say, yes. <br /> <br />MRS. CARRIER: You're still going to have maintenance. <br /> <br />MR. HONCHELL: All roads have maintenance. <br /> <br />MRS. CARRIER: How much are you going to save in maintenance <br />by putting in a permanent road? <br /> <br />MR. HONCHELL: I guess I couldn't tell you because we do not <br />keep costs on a block by block basis. <br /> <br />~~S. CARRIER: Are we going to spend humungous amounts of <br />money and still require maintenance? <br />