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MAYOR DEMOS: Mr. Honchell, you couch some of your state- ments in very polite language, but for me to put it very bluntly, what you're saying is that if this thing goes into condemnation, then the project becomes too expensive and that we should reach it with mutual negotiations. MR. HONCHELL: That's certainly one of the concerns. The other way is that if we go to condemnation, I think we would be taking a real risk at moving ahead, building the road. You can get it through adverse possession after a certain timeframe. Obviously, if you build the street after taking it through adverse possession and the court ends up with unknown findings, then one never knows. But I think it would be better if we could negotiate with the owners and reach a good, fair price that both sides can agree to. I think that's the way it would be best handled. Simply to have an up-front, open negotiation. MR. POPOVICH: Mayor and members of the Council, this total project, which came in by petition, has a published cost of $551,592.00. If we take the various items, I'll give you the items and the dollar cost and what the assessments would be. The first one would be the storm drainage - $68,487.00 is the storm drainage cost. Based at the 25% rate of the total cost, it would come out to $145.25 per unit. There are 117.88 so- called assessable units for storm sewer assessments there. The 25% is the City policy, so obviously the rest would be picked up by general taxes and other sources. The next item is the sanitary sewer - $31,810.00 is that estimated cost. This would be 100% assessed, which would come out to $21.79 per front foot. The next item would be sanitary sewer services from the street to the property line. That cost is $4,130.00 and there are eight of them. So that would be 100% assessed or $516.25 for each service. The streets are $249,739.00, which is over half of the improvement. The cost per front foot would be $155.66, 100% assessed. The watermain portion, on the recommended alignment, is $186,376.00. Because that would be put in at a 12 inch size rather than an 8 inch size, it is recommended that 84% of it be assessed. The rest would be picked up by general taxes. The front foot cost for that would be $38.04. If you go for the realignment, the other alternate for water, the cost is $127,677.00 and at the 84% similar charge it would come out to $47.14 per foot. You may ask how can that cost be higher than the other one when you have less total cost? The reason for that is that there are less total assessable feet involved because you border on St. Anthony. You can't assess St. Anthony. That's one of the reasons. 8