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moved here last year and we had a street light about maybe 30 feet away from our bedroom before, and for ten years I slept fine and I don't care if they put it by my transformer and neither does my neighbor. It doesn't make any difference, but I don't think it will hinder any of my sleep or anybody else's. MAYOR DEMOS: I f you do put it there, we would want to light up as much of the street as possible and I'm talking about the street surface, and it would be necessary - if we put it down too far we will not get any light on the Circle or cul- de-sac, and occasionally people do get mixed up looking for streets and with the Galtier Circle and Street, you know someone might come in looking and if it weren't light you get down there before you realize what's going on. FROM THE AUDIENCE: Transit from Rice to our Circle is completely black and it's very dark and very bad in the winter- time especially. Summertime isn't so bad, but in the wintertime it's really dark so we really would like to have the light. I'm for it if we could settle something tonight because we would like it. I'm also one of these whose husband works the graveyard shift and we back up to the woods and we have many beer parties every Friday night behind the woods and I'm a little leary to be home alone. MAYOR DEMOS: At this time I'm going to ask the Council to make its decision. COUNCILMAN ANDERSON: If you put in the two-,lights you're going to have a difference in cost of approximately what the cost is of this other one so what you'd have is roughly double the cost of what you have now and you'd divide it among the 13 lots here and three more across the street and that would be l6 lots. Is that right? MR. STRONG: This light costs more than this light even if this was ornamental because this can be served by an over- head area. Northern States Power has one rate (inaUdible) and this can only be served by an underground system for which they charge a higher rate because they cannot use the lines for anything but street lights. Down here you can have the under- ground, and the only cost will be the installation. Then it reverts to the overhead rate. This will always be an ornamental rate so you can't just double this and expect both lights to be the same. This will always cost less.