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COUNCIL MEETING APRIL 22, 1996 this your little personal issue. She said that this issue involves everyone in the Centennial School District. Ms. Kriegler said she supported Ms. Fenno who has lived in her home for 11 years. She said she knew that there would be a new school there some day. Ms. Kriegler said, lets get on with the evening. Ms. Kriegler gave Mayor Landers a petition and said that she would like to get on with the evening. Linda Budnicki, 737 Country Lakes Drive - Ms. Budnicki said that she attended an information meeting held by the Centennial School Board and is aware of the middle school proposal. She explained that she has two (2) small children and the chances that her family would be living in this community when they reach the age to attend the new middle school was not very good. However, Ms. Budnicki said it did irritate her to no end to find that Option C and Option D was being considered. Neither of those options warrant a stop light. She said with 1800 children attending the middle school, safety has to be the number one issue. Although the City Council has to be concerned about the neighborhood, but the neighborhoods concerns cannot come above the children's safety. Ms. Budnicki presented a petition that says concerned parents want a traffic light on Lake Drive and Elm Street. She noted that the petition does contain the signatures of several Wenzel Farms neighborhood residents. Ms. Budnicki said that she did not feel that Mr. Killy should talk for the entire neighborhood when obviously Option D does not warrant a light. Ms. Budnicki said that all of the experts feel that Option F is the best and safest plan and did not see how anyone in good consciences could put in a road for a school and ignore what the experts are telling them. She asked the City Council to listen to the experts, this is there job. OSM does this every day. Ms. Budnicki said it would be beyond her to tell OSM that they are wrong and it would be beyond every City Council Member's ability to do that also. She said they are the experts and that is what they are being paid for. Ms. Budnicki explained that she used to be a Realtor and said that some of the houses on North Road are the oldest houses in the community. This is what makes some of them sell at the $50,000.00 and $60,000.00 level. She said that these houses cannot be compared to the houses in Wenzel Farms because they are a totally different type of housing. Ms. Budnicki said that this is a City concern, not just a neighborhood concern. She said she was sorry that the neighborhood does not like the rest of the City to get involved, but the rest of the City is involved and will not go away. Arnold Christenson, 281 Elm Street - Mr. Christenson said that he has just been listening about all types of concerns about safety on Elm Street. He said that he has lived on Elm Street for about 50 years. If they think there is a problem with traffic, think about him because he moved to Elm Street when there was only about a dozen cars using that street. Mr. Christenson said that this neighborhood cannot stop the wheels of progress. PAGE 22