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. -11- - said most of the trees in the Village boulevards had been planted there by the homeowners; - requested the City Attorney review the documents Mr. Kausel has in relation to the City' s acquisition of the Boulevard to determine their relevance to the City Assessment Policy; - said, based on their refusal to pay for any of the costs of maintaining the road in front of the Gross Golf Coub, he had strong doubts about the Park Board' s ever taking St. Anthony Boulevard back just because the City wasn' t maintaining it; - informed Ms. Bochnak that no proposals to reconstruct either Wilson or Roosevelt Streets were on the Council' s agenda at this time, but - said he was afraid that would probably have to be done "sooner than we would like with current economic condi- tions. " - reminded the property owners that this project had been completed in less than two months as compared to County Road D, which the County had taken over two years to • complete. Ranallo - told Mr. Kausel the City would have to amend its assessment policy ordinance before it could make an exception for St. Anthony Boulevard assessments; - drew a parallel between Mr. Kausel' s having to pay for a street which is primarily used for general traffic and the property owners on his street being assessed for a new storm sewer the City reconstructed a few years ago close to St. Anthony Boulevard, saying his neighbors were hard pressed to see the benefit of that improvement to their own tproperties; - reiterated that future projects like this one might be assessed at rates higher or lower than the St. Anthony Boulevard homeowners had to pay; - pointed out that St. Charles Church hs to pay 100% of the costs of reconstructing not only St. Anthony Boulevard, but also Stinson Boulevard because its property is assessed on a commercial basis.