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MR. GILES: No, I wasn't, but I don't think the pamphlet would have made one bit of difference because I wish we could have had curbs from the day I moved in. Every year I've lived there I've said - whatever they do from now is going to cost me more money and that has proven to be true. COUNCILMAN JOHNSON: It's my understanding that the person that brought the petition also had pamphlets to hand out. You didn't get one? MR. GILES: No, because he had no argument with me. I was completely in favor of it. Maybe if he had thought I was in doubt and needed some reinforcement or something - I don't know if the pamphlet (inaudible). COUNCILMAN FRANKE: There is a pamphlet that we put out in the City that explains street improvements and explains our assessment policy. Then the question is - if they got them would they read them? Sometimes people listen but they don't hear. MR. GILES: If he had given me one, I wouldn't have read it because I was for this improvement from day one. MAYOR DEMOS: Anyone else on Brenner? WOMAN IN AUDIENCE: I live on Patton but we did get the pamphlet. MR. RALPH FLOWERREE, 2505 Brenner Avenue: I'm not acquainted with all of the advantages of curbs and gutters and such except that they certainly help the lawn and they do aid in street maintenance and that sort of thing. I was rather pleased when a couple of young men came around with the peti- tion. I congratul,ated them for being public spirited citizens and so forth. They handed me - I was the third person, I believe, on Brenner - there were not many signatures - but when they handed me the petition, it was brief, 'it was suggested that I read it, it was for an improvement and the conversation - one of the young men did mention to me that the first thing done would be a survey. But the petition was for an improve- ment. They didn't give me a pamphlet - they referred to one and they had one with them, which was offered to me to read. I read a portion of it, but since I was highly in favor of the improvement, I didn't take the time to read the pamphlet in its entirety. I do wish to do all that I can to correct the impres- sion that the two men who originated and circulated the peti- tion falsely represented it. To my knowledge - or at least the impression given to me was that they were entirely open about it and there was no misrepresentation at all. I would hate to see that feeling cause a negative reaction to the project. MAYOR DEMOS: Thank you. MR. ROBERT OLSON, 2453 Brenner Avenue: It was presented to me properly and I understood what it was and I knew that 8