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2 call M.S.A. Municipal State Aid Streets - have the opportunity of partake of some of the funding that's available in the state through the collection of gasoline tax when you buy your gas at the gas station and license plate purchasing. It's not a large amount - about 11% of the money - but it's at least something. In order to use these funds, however, they can only be spent on these M.S.A. roads such as Highcrest, and they can only be expended when the improvements proposed are up to the standard that the state has set as absolute minimum. In this case it's to have a 9-ton road. It's an urban design so there's concrete curb and gutter on each side, and the standard also says that the roadway normally must be 44 feet wide. The exception to that is that if you wish to build it 36 feet wide you must have parking on . only one side of the road. This proposal is to have such a 36- foot wide roadway and have parking allowed on one side only. To further bring you up to date, as you know, this is a boundary road and we have been told that last night the hearing was held in St. Anthony for the same improvement because it's half on their side, and they did order in the project on a 36-foot wide design. The only expenditures, or I should say assessments, that are involved to Roseville citizens - there are three aparment complexes toward the south and there is a parcel owned by Northern States Power on the north. As such, these are not single family or duplex lots that are not tax exempt. All the other lots, to our knowledge at least, are normal buildings that are used for single family or duplex and are taxed just like everybody else in the city. The city policy for these kinds of roads is that single family and duplexes are not assessed for the road improvement, which means there would be no assessments to all of these resi- dential lots - that is, single family residential - because it's an M.S.A. road. We would use the M.S.A. funds to pay for it. Now, many of you - if this improvement moves ahead, if you haven't gotten it in the mail, will soon be receiving a questionnaire indicating that we want to have your input as to how the drive- ways should ultimately be reconstructed as we do the work because you may want to have a different material - bituminous or concrete - it may be 12 feet and you want it widened to 16. We will be asking you to send back this information so we can put the improve- ment in the way you want it. If you change materials and want a wider drive there's a cost for that and we would expect whoever requests it to pay the cost. This is not a part of the assessment but an opportunity you would have at the time we were doing the im- provement if you so choose. If you don't want changes, let us know and that's the way it will stay. I will turn it over for the fiscal side. MR. POPOVICH: The published cost of this improvement is estimated at $267,000.51 and the Roseville share will be $137,388. The balance, of course, would come from St. Anthony. In view of the Council policy of not assessing residential property where state aids are involved, we find that the total footage on this street is 1727 feet of which the residential property is 1526 feet. There will be no assessments on those properties.