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rerouted to the storm drains and were taken out. There is no water going from Merrill Street down to that catch basin and that corrugated pipe down to Fernwood. Number two - when they put in this storm sewer, we opposed at that time the replacement of the blacktop. They did a very poor job. We were told at that time that that storm sewer and blacktop replacement was going to be completely redone and I believe that was done by Lametti & Sons at that time. That is the project that has created the problems on Judith Street. At that time I opposed the City Council. If you look at Merrill Street you will find that Merrill was improperly graded at that time. Mayor Cedarholm was the Mayor at that time and confronted your attorney, who is no longer with you, and he in turn said - what do you propose to do about it, and the attor- ney said that in order to properly grade Merrill Street it would take 7 1/2 feet of drop and 3/4 of a block. I have an uncle that can grade 120 acres of farmland in 2 1/2 feet of water and if that's the type of engineering that's done in the Village of Roseville, I highly oppose it. I am not finding fault with any- thing . MAYOR DEMOS: Did you say attorney or engineer? MR. MOLINE: Engineer. I said, if that's the type of engi- neering that is done - I have also, at the time that this corru- gated unit went in, they spoke of putting a storm drain down on the north side of the Kath's property, which was owned by George Reiling at that time. The properties that they put that on had the surface water problems. They were low lying areas at that point. This water that they have that is coming into their back yards and coming down again is surface water. It is not coming back off of the street. It is coming off of yards as the snow and the ice is melted down. I see no reason to go ahead and to put curbs and gutters into an area that has - that Council, at that time, in 1961, said that Merrill Street, Fernwood, Dellwood and Huron was the shantytown of Roseville. If we are a shanty- town, with the homes that we have built and added to, I guess I am highly opposed to putting curbs and gutters on. I see no reason to improve that street. I justed wanted to get that across because I have to leave. I am going to have problems and you don't want that. MR. ROBERT REED, 2726 Merrill Street: Madame Mayor, members of the Council, fellow citizens - when the petitions were circulated, I was fairly neutral about this matter. Since that time, I have become most unneutral. I am absolutely opposed to this project. You will note on the map that at 2726 Merrill there is a tree. That is a beautiful spreading Elm tree, one of those left to us from the Dutch Elm disease. I realize that we all differ in our value systems and I fully respect the Council members whose value systems appear to be a highly urban- ized type of environment. I disagree. I would like to have my (inaudible) respected. I am fully adult and I resent being talked down to in a haughty manner, as I felt I was being a bit ago, being told that the Council did things for our good, like so many little children. This is a democracy. This is not an aristocracy, and I mean to be heard on this. This is my property. 3