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Page 3 Residents of.29th Avenue and members of the T.A.P. Committee, Thomas Shaffer, Omar Shabaz, David Freund, Gary Bentler and Mr. & Mrs. James Reasoner participated in the discussion of the assessment policy as well as the debate which followed on how much of the cost of rebuilding 29th should be assessed to the property owners. Mr. Shaffer said the staff's original estimate had the property owners only paying an average of $1,7.19 per lot for the project with MSA funding and he questioned what seemed to be a .raise in this figure to over $2,800.00 per lot in the total figure of $208,632.00 which was quoted as the amount to be assessed to property owners in the notice of the Public Hearing. One factor in the raise, the Manager said, was the $25,00.00 which he estimated it would cost to pay for the additional curb, gutter and catch basins called for in the parkway design for the street which had been requested by T.A.P. Whether such costs should be assessed to the property owners or paid from the MSA. funds allocated to the City evoked the following comments from the Council. Mayor Miedtke said he felt the property owners should be assessed for a 32 foot -5 ton residential street as had been previously agreed, but the additional costs for the parkway design should also be paid by the people who wanted these added amenities. Councilman Haik disagreed with this premise saying she felt these additional costs should be covered by MSA funding since the init- iative presented in the newly designed street would prove, she believed, to be a benefit to the whole community. She did not feel that the use of a larger portion of the MSA funds available to the City for the rebuilding of 29th would to any great extent deprive the City in the future. Mayor Miedtke and the Manager told of a number of projects for which the MSA funds would have to be used and Mr. Dulgar questioned whether a precedent was being set for all future street building projects which might qualify for MSA funding. Councilman Stauffer said that, though the costs to the property owners on 29th might seem high, they had resulted from building a street which the property owners had indicated would be valuable tc them. She also pointed out that residents on other city streets to which the traffic might be diverted from 29th would eventually have to pay for the rebuilding of those streets. Councilman Sundland felt the residents of 29th had undergone a unique hardship when their street had served as a detour while St. Anthony Boulevard was being rebuilt and therefore should be grantee a concession in regard to the amount of MSP. funds which would be used to defray the costs of rebuilding their street. When Mr. Bentler asked why the street would be constructed of asphalt rather than concrete, the Manager told him it was felt asphalt would stand up better on the plastic type soils of that area saying the concrete roads which had been installed in the Cit; in 1968 and 1969 were already breaking down.