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COUNCILMAN GRAUEL: I rhink as Mr. Popovich stated, the cost of materials and labor, therels a general inflation t.hat everyone is aware of and we have to meet a certain amount of any improvement that has to be picked up by assessments. If you remember back when water was constructed throughout the community we kept the water charges there I think at $6.05, $6.25 and $6.40 to keep it uniform so the last to have their properties improved would not have excessive assessments against their property. MAYOR DEMOS: I would like to say thar when storm sewers were put in the assessment was $200 a lot so that has gone up once. COUNCILMAN GRAUEL: The first was $200 and then five or six years ago it was increased to $250. ~~. SMITH: What might it be increased to? MAYOR DEMOS: This is something we have not taken up at all. COUNCILMAN GRAUEL: I would assume this would be in a fairly close range of maybe a $50 increase or something like that. We would want to try to keep it. as stable as possible without penal- izing the people that got the improvement the last and there is still around 30% of the community that is not storm sewered. MAYOR DEMOS: ~ve're required to have at least 20% of the project on the assessment rolls and we're pretty close to that danger line right now. MR. ROBERT THOMPSON: Based on this (inaudible) idea of new lots that will be developed - if they are - will everyone of those get a $250 assessment when they are developed. MAYOR DEMOS: It will be by acre. MR. HONCHELL: They would be assessed right now on the assumption they are contributing water. We're going by the zoning when we say (inaudible) so we're assuming that land will stay R-l and if they get assessed on an acreage basis it's identical as if you have a series of small lots. l5