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in two different ways. One, that all of Ryan and all of Oxford be done, and secondly, all of Ryan and only the nothern portion of Oxford would be done. Obviously. nothing is going to be any different on Ryan - there is no change. We would build the same thing on Oxford - at least in the first alternative. The difference is how the assess- ments are spread around. It was (inaudible) overall program that was discussed a year ago. At that time the attempt was to get not only the frontage streets paved, but also the side streets. If no side streets ever get done, that will be a bit of a hodge-podge. One of the ways to do that is to have larger projects and spread the expenses of the project over more frontages and more assessable feet. If you recall, the Ryan project was $29,583 with almost lOOO assessable feet. Oxford is $24,000, but there are only slightly over 200 assessable feet so there's quite a disproportionate expense per foot. One of the reasons this was at least considered, was because this would allow - with the completion of the Shryer paving, and if portions of Oxford were done and Ryan, sort of a small mini portion of the neighborhood to be completed. At sometime these services and watermain are petitioned for by (inaudible) existing roadway is going to have to get torn up to put them in and those expenses of tearing the roadway up and putting it down as a temporary roadway probably only 16 feet wide and still off center didn't seem like a good way to plan ahead, so this was put in essentially to provide the opportunity to avoid those kinds of things if it should be so desired - not to say it has to be that way. This is just an alternative. The alternative carries the entire distance plus Ryan. Alternative 2 stops at North Ryan and goes to Shryer, and naturally this means the costs to the frontages along Oxford will be lower, conversely, the assessments on Ryan are bound to be higher because part of the costs are being picked up by the property owners on Ryan. No one is trying to hide that fact. We want to be in the open with you and get your opinion.