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8 up and I think that's one way to slow it. Another is closing the street which would conform to the rest of that particular block which is essentially a cul-de-sac type area (inaudible) since if the survey is right, County Road Band Roselawn are supposed to be the main feeder streets. (inaudible) that general area is a residential. community. I know that others would appreciate speaking to the concerns that they have about the condition of the street. MAYOR DEMOS: I think we're over-simplifying when we say Roselawn and County Road B are the collector streets. They are the county roads. Collector streets lead to county roads and this is a feeder street because you have the other streets coming down to it both from the north and from the south and entering out, and when we say it's residential - when he talks about the residential neighborhood, he's talking about that collective neighborhood between Fairview and Snelling and from those streets (inaudible) not just Skillman itself. I guess it would be pretty hard for me - I use it. It's my feeder street, so supposing I want to go to Har-Mar. What you're requiring me to do is go south and get hit as I make a left-hand turn to the north - or to go to County Road B and we have to acknowledge that on the north end of Har-Mar there (inaudible) if I do go in that way it means I drive all the way around that shopping center - you know what I mean - and dodge some of the traffic that's backing out of other parking places, so I understand why people use that street. Like I said, I don't think we can reduce Roselawn and County Road B to feeder streets or collectors because they're county roads and any feeder is a street that goes from a county (inaudible). MR. PERMAN: Is that the basis for its qualifications? It's not arterial we're connecting with. MAYOR DEMOS: I might say something else. How much are we spending on base replacement annually? MR. HONCHELL: It's in the $80,000 and $90,000 bracket now. MAYOR DEMOS: We had a street program that went down the drain and we determined then that we would put $40,000 a year into base replacement so you can see from 1977 to 1980 how we're increasing. We're now double what we were three years ago in base replacement. The cost of asphalt and that type of things are going sky high. We could have given streets to the people allover the city for $7.20 in 1976, and I think we could have held that had we started in 1977. Granted this is $98.10 a foot for 36 feet, and if you cut it to 32 feet you could cut some, but you can see if we go another four years - supposing we take the MSA rating off and do it as a residential street, I would dare say we're