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MAYOR DEMOS: At this time I will open the hearing to the public. I would again remind you that this is for the storm sewer project. This is not for any of the street projects. I would ask that you come to the microphone, give your name, address, and the address of the property to which you are referring. MR. ROY ABRAHAMSON, 3089 North Hamline: I would like to go on record as being opposed to the storm sewer project on the basis that no need has been proven or satisfactorily demonstrated and, in my experience, in ten or eleven years at this address, there has been no significant water problem for more than, maybe, half an hour at a time on Hamline Avenue from a point near Clarmar, south of Advent Lutheran Church, down to the area designated as F, to the best of my knowledge. I think it would be better to cancel the entire project. MAYOR DEMOS: Is there anyone else who wishes to be heard? MR. WALTER O'MALLEY~ 1389 Clarmar: When this project was brought up before, I believe it was five or six years ago, I don't know that it was turned down specifically by the Metropolitan Sewer Commission, but they at that time stated that the project that they were proposing here in the village would not be suffi- cient to meet the demands there would be in the future. The cost that they had proposed for what would be necessary to meet their requirements was going to be about three times the cost of what the village was proposing. Has this been checked out with the Metropolitan Sewer Commission? MR. ANDRE: I think you're referring to the Rice Creek Watershed. MR. WALTER O'MALLEY: Alright. MR. HONCHELL: I can respond to that. As Mr. Andre indicated, I believe the body you're referring to is the Rice Creek Watershed. The reason for the extensive difference in cost at that time versus these kinds of costs was because of the necessity to build a large pipe of 30 some, ranking in total size up to 70 some inches, from Hamline all the way to Lexington, to put this water into a receiving facility, in this case Little Lake Josephine pond. The reason those costs are not there now, as I indicated, (inaudible) is already in place through a federal grant. The Rice Creek Watershed and the City of Roseville went together to get that pipe already constructed. So it's in place and that is not part of the cost of this project. The cost of that project was in several hundreds of thousands of dollars, you're correct. But those costs no longer have to be brought forward to you as property taxpayers in your assessments because it's in place. We have taken these plans to the Rice Creek Watershed, they have reviewed them, and they have gone on record as stating that this is an acceptable plan and they have no problems with it. MR. WALTER O'MALLEY: There would be no further installation needed in the future by the Rice Creek Watershed? 4