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20 will contribute to the betterment of Roseville - to the entire neighborhood there - let's forget Roseville - and even though the people that live there oppose this, I can understand their feelings, but I believe in the long run, a couple years down the road, they will come back and say "thank you, we appreciate what you did." COUNCILMAN CURLEY: This is sort of a peculiar situation because you have a community divided by a street. One part wants a storm sewer so they can get a street and the other side of the street doesn't want the storm sewer and if you don't want that you will beat the other people out of the nice street they need, and so it's kind of a difficult position that you put us in. And it's like Mr. Kehr said - the water runs from the top of the hill down and a lot of people don't have water problems, but it's going some place. There has never been anybody in Roseville assessed twice for storm sewer and it's all on our records, but we don't carry all the records to the desk at a Council meeting, but if you were assessed once it will show up and you will not be assessed again. Maybe your developer paid the assessment if there was a storm sewer put in and he passed it on. I'm fortunate in having had to pay for three storm sewers, but I feel I'm proud of Roseville. Not only do you drive on your street on the east side, but also on the west side of Dale Street and you use those streets. COUNCILMAN ANDERSON: I can give my feelings on this in fairly short order. One is that not only does Iona Lane need to be up-graded, but I can think of many more miles in the City of Roseville that should be up-graded as far as street is concerned and one of the damn streets is right in front of my house so I'm still living on what's considered a temporary street so if people start fighting streets, then I get a little suspicious. When they start fighting storm sewers I kind of appreciate their feelings. You're looking at the character that started storm sewers in the City of Roseville a long with a guy by the name of John Berg and another friend of mine from down Lexington way back in about 1961 or 1962. We went with a storm sewer petition for the area down (inaudible) they lived on a hill and didn't have any water problem and when you talked to the one at the bottom of the hill, they got a water problem. Over by Lexington School they had a hole. I was on the Health and Safety Committee at the Lexington P.T.A.. We had a hole that would fill up seven or eight feet deep in some of the storms and we were afraid that some of the kids would play there and drown and that's how we got going on the particular project. (Inaudible) bottom of the hill and he had a water problem and he said what did you build here for, and he said "I built quite a while ago. When I built I was on a knoll and as the people