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3 to be taken as part of the project, almost half of these trees being at the extreme northern portion where the road is so far off to the east. When I say these trees are taken - so we all understand each other - it's not proposed that they be taken from private property. All of the trees mentioned are in the existing City right-of-way. There are some fairly steep driveways - actually on both sides - but particularly on the west. These driveways will be in the same general condition as far as slope as they are today. This may mean, in some instances, having to go back on the private property to reconstruct the driveways to provide adequate grades. One of the other features of this particular project is that, you will notice as the land falls off, some of the homes are a little higher than the front yards, but still lower than the road. It will, in all probability, be necessary to provide some pick-up points for that water that will be setting at the front yard areas because otherwise the water would be trapped, actually as it is trapped somewhat today. We would like to intercept so it doesn't run along the roadway for extensive lengths. Since there are existing storm drain facilities in place, it's a matter of making some minor extensions out. The block of Judith that is included is quite close to the existing centerline and has no severe grade problems. It's proposed to be built again in a typical 32 foot manner with the roadway centered. No particular problems are anticipated on that roadway. MR. POPOVICH: This improvement has a published total cost of $218,810 and it was originally started by petition, as was explained by the engineer. The total assessable footage is 3,551 feet and if it were 100% assessed it would be $61.60 per foot for the improvement. Based on the recommendation of the department it's proposed that only 25% or $14.50 be assessed per front foot against the benefited properties and the rest of it would be picked up by the city as a whole. We would recommend an assessment period not to exeed 15 years in view of the money market conditions and obviously depending on the interest rate we receive,and the assessment carrying charge if the people did not prepay would be 1% over that interest rate the City would have to pay. MR. ANDRE: There has been a petition submitted to the City within the last day or two. We do have a petition submitted to the City in opposition to the improvement, and the petition relates both to the Oxford and Judith portion of the project and it reads, "The undersigned hereby express opposition to the proposed 32-foot paved street, curb and gutter on Oxford Street between Woodhill on the south and County Road C-2 on the north for which all property owners would be individually assessed. The same are not opposed to reconstruction of the street (without widening) by the City street department using the general tax fund."