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1 expected to last at least 10 or 15 years, so the costs could be considered to be spread out a lot further than one year. 3 Councilmember Enrooth commented that as a resident who golfs, he would 4 certainly not mind paying another 25 cents a round to have access on 5 a new road rather than the one which was there before reconstruction. 6 He told Mr. Feldman the complaints the City had gotten about the 7 condition of the road prior to its being fixed were "numerous and 8 continuous" and he perceived pro rating the assessment out over the 9 years wouldn't represent a substantial increase in the costs for the 10 golf course. The Councilmember added that he perceived the new roadway 11 would "help the golf course considerably and would greatly facilitate 12 usage." Mr. Feldman said "golfers will find the best golf course for 13 the money no matter how they have to get there." He pointed out that 14 the highest number of rounds are played at Gross and Meadowbrook and 15 said that "even without an agreement, Meadowbrook did not charge us for 16 improving the roads." 17 Robert S. Patterson of the Phillip S. Resnick & Associates law firm 18 reiterated the Sunset Memorial Cemetery position against the "entire 19 amount of the proposed assessment" contained in the letter signed by 20 Michael Kelley, General Manager of Sunset Memorial Cemetery which he 21 handed to the Secretary. These were that: 22 *there were numerous other residents and businesses who potentially 23 benefitted from the improvement, including large businesses adjoining 14 the City of St. Anthony who generated traffic on the boulevard; 25 *the Boulevard provides a major route of ingress and egress to and 26 from the City of St. Anthony and the City of Minneapolis, therefore, 27 should bear a large percentage of the cost of the reconstruction; 28 *the cemetery management was joining in with the Golf Course objection 29 to the assessment because both parties perceived it was unjust to 30 require only two abutting property owners to bear the entire cost of 31 the reconstruction. 32 Mr. Patterson said he hadn't read the Park Board easement and didn't 33 know whether it affected the cemetery property, but to the extent the 34 Park Board was objecting to the entire $112,850.95 assessment, wanted 35 the record to show that Sunset Memorial was joining in that objection 36 as well as the value of the improvements made in the reconstruction to 37 not only Sunset and the golf course but also the St. Anthony residents 38 as a basis for the assessments. He said as an occasional user of the 39 road and the golf course, he knew a lot of drivers used the boulevard 40 to get in and out of St. Anthony and he perceived there were a lot more 41 people and businesses who benefited from the use of the road than just 42 those who were going to the golf course or the cemetery. 43 The counsel for the cemetery said he would like to see a copy of the 44 ordinance which adopted the 1986 assessment policy as well as the 45 calculations which determined what the benefits to the two properties 10