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3 The water services estimated at $970.83 a lot. The storm sewer cost is $15,676 and the estimated cost per unit would be $261.27 if it was 100% assessed. At the 25% rate it would be $65.32. The street, curb and gutter total cost is estimated at $158,835 and at the assessable footage that's available the estimated cost per foot for the system, assuming 100% assessed would be $166.04 a foot. The actual figures would be determined this fall if the project goes ahead. MAYOR DEMOS: Any written statements? MR. ANDRE: We have no correspondence on this. MAYOR DEMOS: At this time I will open this hearing to the public and ask each person to identify him or herself. MR. JACK BELL: I am one of the members of the Advent Lutheran Church Council. If 48% of the property owners petitioned, it must have been everyone but us because we own the other side of the street. This is not a feasible project. This is in an area where the costs are going to be extremely high to build the road and when all of this peat is dug out you can imagine (inaudible). We have no intention of developing that property or using those lots on the west side of the street. Lots 1 through 6 where the storm sewer runs through is adjacent to the church ground which is immediately west (inaudible). It covers part of our parking lot and covers the wooded area. It's particularly suitable just the way it is for the purpose that we intend to use it - for aesthetic value, for nature study, for a buffer between the church grounds and the area east of the church grounds. There is ,certainly no benefit to the church by this project. I would question whether the cost of the project would exceed the benefit to the property because if it's got this poor surface for a road it has a poor surface for (inaudible) but anyway, we don't want to build houses there. We have no plans. We want to keep the land just as it is. If the project were to go through and if the church is faced with this kind of assessment it forces us into a selling position because we just don't have the budget to cover an assessment for this, and especially in the line of costs you're talking about. It would really amount to a confiscation of our property. We would lose the whole east end of our property. I think too that $166 a square foot (inaudible). One of the lots is divided by a storm sewer now. That's going to have (inaudible) It just is not a feasible project. I would recommend and urge the Council that this is not a project to go ahead with (inaudible).