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4 MR. HONCHELL: 25% of the actual cost, but only one-tenth of the length of your lot. For instance, if they had an 80 foot lot, they would pay 80 times $14 a foot. Since you only have frontage on Judith, side (inaudible) you would pay for 13.5 feet times that same $14. So you would pay the same rate per foot but it would be on a much smaller number of assessable feet than the 135 feet you own along the roadway. MR. PROKOsCH: So when they do Fernwood, my frontage - does that all (inaudible) out the same? MR. HONCHELL: If and when Fernwood gets done, then whatever the assessment rate the people on Fernwood are charged, you would be charged that times the number of feet you have on the front of your property. MR. DENNIS DWORSHAK, 2717 North Griggs: Corner of Woodhill and Griggs. I too have never seen a petition promoting this road improvement. I have spoken to a couple of my neighbors. None of them have seen the petition. I don't oppose having a road upgraded. I have a personal feeling here. I was subjected to the Woodhill project where my neighbor on the corner across from me, both of us were assessed 100%. Nobody up the street was involved in the actual assessment other than through taxes, which is fine. I don't use Griggs. I'm opposed to the curbs. We have a good drainage system on that street as shown in the diagram here. I believe if you want to improve the street, let's repave it and forget about the curb and this other business. A question I have to bring up to the Council is the fact that the Notice of Hearing is dated October 13. My letter arrived at my home exactly one week ago which would make it a month from the time the Notice of Hearing was typed up. Those of us that did not have privy to the petition whould have at least had a certain amount of time to at least discuss the matter among ourselves that were against it, so I don't know where the 51% comes from, but I'm opposed to the overall project. MR. HONCHELL: The notices were sent out previous to that and were sent out in accordance with the regulations according to lead time on public notices, but we, the City, don't control which neighbor petitioners knock on the door, or maybe you weren't home. MR. DWORSHAK: I don't care about the petition. I'm wondering why it takes a month from the hearing to the time it gets to my door. MR. HONCHELL: These are prepared well in advance of the time of the hearing but we want to try and make sure they go to the legal property owners as close as possible to the hearing date. Say we sent it out three months early - a lot of people could buy and sell in between. There's a regular prescribed set of lead times we have to meet with the law and that's what we follow in our notice. CORA EDSTROM, 2761 North Griggs: When I called the engineering