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14 • Attorney Soth to research that particular information. Council Member Enrooth suggested that the underlying question was whether St . Anthony could continue not to assess for street repairs considering the future expense of repairing the numerous concrete streets in the City, some of which are apparent even now. Council Member Makowske pointed out that the same problems will arise with the asphalt streets . City Attorney Soth reminded the Council that although it was legal to assess that the City would be limited by the amount of the special benefit conferred to the property assessed. Council Member Enrooth asked whether, if one side of a street were repaired, the benefit was conferred to only the property owners on that half of the street. Mr. Soth responded that that was not necessarily the case, and that formulas could be established to reasonably allocate benefits . Council Member Ranallo expressed concern that those property owners on non-State Aid streets would be unfairly burdened with large assessments . City Attorney Soth said that in a technical and legal sense it was irrelevant whether a road • was State Aid funded or not , because the City could only assess the benefit, not the cost. He stated that assessments are not limited by the sources of the funding, and the issue is one of City policy. Jones Discusses RCWD and Sidewalk Issues Douglas Jones informed the Council that Public Works Director Larry Hamer is to meet on June 29th with representatives of the City of New Brighton and the Rice Creek Watershed District' s (RCWD) engineering firm to discuss the grant project proposed by the RCWD which needs municipal support of the affected communities . The RCWD will be asking for $3, 000 to $4, 000 from each municipality and the lake association to participate in the grant project. He noted that, as an alternative to the up-front contribution from each community, state law provides that any watershed district can be requested to make the necessary improvements and levy the cost over the entire watershed district up to one third mil for a period of 15 years . Mr. Jones advised the Council that Silver Lake is heavily impacted by runoff, particularly from Apache Shopping Center, and said that St. Anthony could request that that problem be dealt with immediately, whereas the grant project is looking at doing a two-year feasibility study.