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5 MR. HONCHELL: There are no plans for those roadways. The reason this particular street - Highcrest - is being considered is two-fold. We received a petition, and as an M.S.A. street we have a capital improvement program where we have looked at those specific streets and are moving to try to improve them. Lydia is a typical residential roadway and the city does not at this time initiate action on any of those. If the people on that roadway wish to have the street up-graded we are happy to supply them with a petition and they can come in and ask for it, but the staff and Council have not been initiating these projects. We have been waiting for the citizens to come in. MR. BRADWAY: Wasn't there a discussion on this about a year ago? MR. HONCHELL: Lydia Court did petition. They came in. There was a hearing and that will be built this summer. There were a couple - Brenner and Lydia had some people indicate they wantedtl1e street upgraded but we never received a petition. MR. BRADWAY: When Highcrest is completed, how far around the corner will the improvement go? MR. HONCHELL: Just the radius of the curb - probably 15 feet - just enough to get the people into the other roadway. MAYOR DEMOS: The side streets we will not give away. MRS. NANCY WESTLAND, 3046 Highcrest: If this goes through and we get the street in, how do we go about getting stop signs if we would want them? l1R. HONCHELL: We will be happy to review any requests. We have a Traffic Safety Committee in the city, and any time an individual or neighborhood or group or anyone else feels that there's a need for changes in the traffic signing or signals or speed limits or anything along that line, if you give us a written request indi- cating what you would like and some reasoning why so we can take that into consideration, we usually meet every week or more often and we'd be happy and will go out and review it and make a determina- tion as best we can. MRS. WESTLAND: You have a bid on how much the total cost is to be. What happens if it runs over the bid? Then are we as private citizens responsible for paying the difference? MR. HONCHELL: We do not have construction bids. What we have is an engineer's estimate based on past history of similar kinds of projects. When the bids come in, the Council would have to review them and see if they're reasonable. If not, they could kill the project or ask for it to be re-bid. At any rate, given the Council's existing policy that the single family are not to be assessed for paving, curb and gutter, no matter what the bids are, no expense is to be spread to the adjoining property owners except apartments and NOrthern States Power.