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MR. JAMES FOLEY: I'm just going by what I've heard up here. MAYOR DEMOS: That doesn't mean that we don't consider those who signed for or against, because there are many people who feel that they signed for and that that should count too, or against. MR. JAMES FOLEY: That's what I said when I got up here before - that I signed it just to get it underway, to see how it was going to work, what was going to happen. That didn't say that I was definitely in favor of it. I was told that it took 35% of the people even to get a conversation about it. That's what I got. I got a conversation. I've got 75% of the people here so far (inaudible) that said no. I've watched the other things that went on this evening (inaudible) and I only saw one time when it came out the way I heard. I.have to assume that you're taking some of this into consideration, the people that signed. That doesn't sound right to me - it doesn't seem right. Those people should be here, like the man said. If they have something to say, they should be here. Signing that piece of paper, like me, that didn't mean I was for or against. Do you understand what I'm saying? MAYOR DEMOS: Yes. I'll tell you what other things that I take into consideration - that's that I have an awful lot of problems. We sat through months of meetings in 1976 - I'm not talking about public meetings. In fact~ before that. Studying costs of maintenance. I think this is only fair to tell you - at that time, we felt that some streets were costing so much to maintain, to fill their little potholes because of bad base and so forth - that we would even consider having a front footage maintenance cost. Then if you chose not to have a new street and you were willing to pick up "x" number of cents or dollars or whatever it might be for front footage - to maintain it just in the condition it was - you had made that choice. Today, I wish it was that way. There are many reasons why it could not be. We had to evidently hold hearings (inaudible) front footage main- tenance and so forth. I find it hard to accept that some streets cost so much more to maintain. If we talk - if all these sub- divisions which have been built since we established our street standards - those people have paid IOO%, not 2S%, of the cost of thei~ street. They paid for that initially. What they have also had to pick up is an inordinate amount of maintenance for those neighborhoods to have temporary streets. I have an awful lot of problems with that. Those are some of the things that I have to take into consideration, along with everything else. That is some of the information that some of you do not have access to. MR. JAMES FOLEY: I'm trying to figure out what causes the votes to go the way they do. MAYOR DEMOS: I'm telling you the things that I take into consideration. Anybody - let's face it - anybody can go out and count people and get votes. What kind of government (inaudible). Somewhere along the line you're going to have to take into con- sideration - you're going to have to set some standards. Not only for city government, but in your own life. That's some of the things that I have done. I have no problems with this in 16