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asking what they could do - one was ready and the other one wasn't, the costs were high, and a whole series of unfortunate circumstances that didn't lead to this being done years ago. The proposal is to have a sanitary sewer - there's an existing manhole at this location and the driveway is generally over where it's shown as proposed. Because of the extreme depth of the sewer, the sewer itself is down about 20 feet - below the 20 foot difference between that and your basement even. Rather than go and build another super deep manhole at a high cost, it is proposed to come slightly toward the driveway, build another manhole which is only half of that depth, and then have a drop structure into the old manhole to save that deep digging and stay out of the potentially wet ground that might be down at that elevation, bring the sanitary sewer ser- vice up the driveway and end it in this small triangle of property that I think is also owned by -the railroad. I'd have to go back and check, but I think that's who owns it. There we'd put a manhole and provide a small service in each direc- tion for each of the two homes to connect to. Somewhat the same thing would happen with the watermain. We would bring an actual watermain, not a service, to that location and then bring small services a few feet to the property lines involved. The advantages of doing it this way are that both homes can connect to this single line, where if we built two services, we would still have to go under the railroad tracks at that relatively high expense and, in a sense, double the cost. This way the homes would be able to share the public facility and we would be -able to reduce their cost by half, approxi- mately. There are no outstanding assessments involved in this because it's an'extension of a line. MR. POPOVICH: Mayor and members of the Council, the two parcels involved petitioned for it, so it's 100% petitioned for. The total published cost was $21,959.00. The sanitary sewer portion is $12,149.61 and the recommended assessment is $22.84 a foot. The total cost of the water is $9,809.31 and the estimated cost at $18.44 per foot. Assuming the project will go ahead, the assessments should not be spread longer than a 15 year period. MAYOR DEMOS: Are there any letters? MR. ANDRE: There are none. MAYOR DEMOS: I will now open the hearing to the public and ask that you corne to the microphone and identify yourself and the property to which you're referring. MR. RUDY HAVEL, 472 South Owasso Boulevard: We have been living there since the sewer was put in. We were there when the sewer was in but there again, for some reason, it was not installed at the time they were there with the equip- ment. We have tried - I have tried personally - dealing with the railroad to get a permit to put the line in ourselves. 2