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II MR. PERMAN: That's right. COUNCILMAN FRANKE: That's a problem you will have. That's society today. MR. PERMAN: I would think stop signs are the least that can be done for Skillman. Aldine has been mentioned, and we have a school crossing at Herschel and there's no way you can go across that effectively unless you control traffic there as well. COUNCILMAN FRANKE: Can't you have a school patrol? MR. PERMAN: They don't. COUNCILMAN FRANKE: Couldn't you petition them to do it? MR. PERMAN: I presume you can. COUNCILMAN FRANKE: I can't imagine that they don't have a school patrol at 8:00 and 4:00. MR. PERMAN: The problem with a school patrol at that point is children, being what they are, will wander through backyards, and it's either there or Aldine - there's no set crossing where they do cross. COUNCILMAN FRANKE: There should be one. When did you move on to Skillman? MR. PERMAN: 1968. COUNCILMAN FRANKE: So when you moved in the bowling alley was already there. This generates some of your traffic but (inaudible) became residential after this other was already there and Har-Mar was there and you have to understand that I sympathize with you because I moved out here in 1952 and built on County Road B - a nice little road I thought would be plowed every day and a nice street to live on. The village has grown, the population has grown, and I guess what I'm feeling is that we should not have bad streets simply to control the traffic. I feel we all bear a responsibility. We built where we did. We have to raise our children. My children had to cross County Road B to catch a school bus and I think children who are raised in sheltered residential areas are not taught safety as much as they would be if they lived on a busy street, but I can't feel there would be any additional (inaudible) on Skillman other than what is already generated by the additional homes and people in there, and I can't help but feel that a nice street and a place to walk would be better than what you have now.