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MR. OWEN POLIPKA, 900 West Grandview Avenue: I sympathize with all the people on Transit Avenue and those areas that are affected by these flood waters but I have trouble with why I should have to pay for it. Thank you. MR. BONCHELL: Not speaking to you specifically, but speaking to the question as a whole - it's been the City's policy - as I stated earlier - that anyone that contributes water toward a problem, contributes help in solving the problem. MR. POLIPKA: At equal cost? MR. HONCHELL: At equal cost because the water isn't very smart - when it gets to the bottoms of hills and washes things out, we can't tell whose water it was. That has been the City's policy. MR. GORDON THOLE, 911 Transit Avenue: I'm for the project. The only thing is, I'd like to talk to somebody about my back yard - if they are going to put dirt in there, where are the trees going to be put? MR. HONCHELL: We would talk to you in obtaining construc- tion easements. c:-- out - yard. trees MR. THOLE: There's a tremendous amount of sand and wash- I have pictures of at least five feet of water in my back Every year that the water comes down it flushes out my and everything else. MR. DONALD ANDRLE, 2492 Oxford Street North: I would like to first of all say that there definitely is a problem on Brooks when there's a heavy rain. The water sits there for a long time. We appreciate this project. I'm very much in favor of it. I do have two questions though ~ first of all - and I can't speak for the rest of the people, but I think a good portion of the people that are also under this plan would like to see it spread over a ten year period~ I would like a comment on that later if I could. The other thing is - would there be any possible problem with this pond - for danger for children? MR. HONCHELL: without getting into too much detail, your first portion on ten years - that decision would actually be made at the assessment hearing, following the project, which is an entirely different hearing. You'll all be notified of that as well. No one here is going to make that decision to- night, although we would keep that comment in mind. Second, as to danger of the pond - again, we are not trying to say this is a precise engineering drawing we're looking at, the cross-section of this - but you'll notice that they show four- on-one slopes. That's a slope that most people can simply walk away from. In other words, let's say someone slips and .-"" falls in the pond - all they would have to do is turn around and walk back out again. It is not a steep slope like you see some of the ponds constructed at. That's the way we 18