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The project, since almost every lot has what is called double frontage - they go out to some other street, be it Woodruff or be it McCarrons - all the lots are going out to some other roadway - so it was attempted to recognize that and, if you will, assume that that'.s going to be common throughout the project, we then calculated all the front footage on the normal basis, with Lot 22 having the north-south direction being considered side and the east-west direction being considered typical frontage. The same occurs on Lot 17 and house 463 having this determined as the side lot, with this being considered their other frontage. With that in mind, we took the cost, divided it by that frontage to get the typical assessment, which is 25% of the actual cost involved. I believe that is $2.60 something a foot. MR. POPOVICH: The total cost of this improvement is $11,049.89. Of that, $8,290.17 will be paid by general taxes and the $2.68 per foot will raise $2,759.72, which is the 25% that Mr. Honchell referred to. This one is to be spread over a five year period of time with an 8% carrying charge. There were no written communications. Mayor Demos announced that the meeting was open for the con- sideration of objections, if any, to said proposed assessment. All persons present were given an opportunity to present oral objections. MR. GEORGE McDONOUGH, 410 South McCarrons Boulevard: Opposed the assessment on his property because he said he re- ceives no benefit from the improvement. He indicated that he cannot use the alley for delivering or driving because there's about a 15 foot drop from the base of the house to the alley. Requested the Council to consider his situation. MR. THOMAS KLEIN, 414 South McCarrons Boulevard: Thanked, the Council for putting the alley in and asked if the contractor had been paid off yet. Mr. Bonchell indicated that the con- tractor had been paid off. Mr. Klein then asked if they had held back 10% or anything else. Mr. Honchell said no, they didn't have the right to do that, and asked if Mr. Klein was having a problem. Mr. Klein said he and some of his neighbors didn't think the job was top quality, but it was better than it had been before the improvement was put in. Mayor Demos asked if he had a problem and Mr. Klein indicated that when there is a lot of rain, he gets water in his yard. He said that when the contractor was putting it in, he told the engineer that it was too high, but they didn't agree. Mr. Klein then stated that he was not complaining about the cost, he just thought the job could have been done better. After discussion by the Council, Mayor Demos declared the hearing closed, and Councilman Kehr moved that the adoption of the proposed assessment be continued to August 24, 1981, at 7:30 o'clock p.m. The motion was seconded by Councilman Johnson and the following voted in favor thereof: All; and the following voted against the same: None. The motion carried. 2