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back up toward B-2, over to the other side of B-2, and then along Lexinaton Avenue again. This is a rather substantial area - no question about that. The reason for some of these jogs in and out is not necessarily that that's exactly the way the water runs, although that's one of the criteria for being in or out. These lots that are outside these lines have already been assessed for storm sewer in the past. It's been the general City policy that when you've had one storm sewer assessment for this type of improvement - even if your water then goes a little farther and gets into something else - they haven't been charging again. Therefore, we made this boundary with that in mind and did not include these several lots on that basis. The remainder, however, are lots that as best we can tell preliminarily, all end up contributing water that becomes part of the overall prob- lem that results in some various form of solution in this improvement being discussed tonight. That's why most of you in the audience are here tonight - because you got a notice saying you are within this boundary area and your water is comingling with your neighbors and ultimately getting into someplace where the improvement is involved. Mr. popovich will talk later about some of the numbers in- volved. I think it might be helpful if I talk just a little bit about sort of how the City has historically assessed for storm drainage. The policy being followed right now is that if your water is part of the problem, then you should be part of the solution., However, they are not charging the full cost to the parcels involved - they are single family parcels, which every- one of these are:, They only charge 25% of the cost. When you hear numbers this evening of what assessments . may be, this is actually only a quarter of the ~otal cost on a per lot basis. 'There are some other people involved in paying, like the County because some of their right-of-ways are there, and of course the City has property as well and as an entity they also pick up their share of the cost. As we said, this area down here had some major problems back in 1978. Not problems for an hour. or a day, but problems of months. We therefore wanted to address that problem very specifically. Other problems, however, in the area, are that there are some very steep grades coming down, all of these streets towards Brooks. Even Transit itself in some of these areas also has some fairly steep grades bringing.the water to various locations. The water comes down these streets with nothing to pick it up except some outmoded and undersized, deteriorated, old concrete box in-let structures and then some corrugated pipe to bring it across at some various locations directly into Bennett Lake. In doing this, the water sheets right across Brooks, in particular. The facilities simply aren't handling it properly and it does lead to problems on arooks. Secondly, once it manages to get away from Brooks, as it goes into the facilities, most of these don't go all the way 3