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Regular Council Minutes 5-17-04 Page 23 Council President Buckholtz asked, any other questions? There were no comments. ROLL CALL: AYES: All NAYS: None Motion. Carried Resolution Adopted ANY OTHER MATTER THAT MAY COME BEFORE COUNCIL Mr. Marquardt addressed Mr. Metzung and said, the President of the Aintree North Homeowners' Association, would like to know if there will be water and power that is going to provided to the entryways of Aintree North as he has requested for a long time. ' Mr. Metzung said Mr. Pietrafese has requested electricity for quite some time and I believe that is going to happen. Water; we never made any arrangements to have water provided. Mr. Marquardt said we have water that is going down to sprinkle the roadway. Mr. Metzung said I am not saying it couldn't happen. I am just saying it was not something that was ever requested until this very moment. They have always asked for electricity for the brick wall. Mrs. Mills said Kenwood requested that a long time ago, in where I live. And we had gas lamps and we were told absolutely not; if we wanted them, we paid out of our own pocket. Therefore, we have no more gas lamps at our entranceways. So I think if you are going to start a program like that, then every homeowner association, mine especially, is going to want that too. Mr. Marquardt said I think the opportunity is there-while we've got the place torn up anyhow-- Mrs. Mills asked, but who is going to pay the expense of that. Mayor Rinker said wait a sec[ond.] Do you have any idea of the cost of it? Because we can check it out. The fact that we haven't done it doesn't mean that we can't do it; and if it's a reasonable cost and the opportunity is there, I think we ought to look into it. Council President Buckholtz said I was going to suggest that--we had a pretty extensive Worton Park homeowners meeting-and I wasn't going to do it at this meeting, I was saving it for aCaucus but I was thinking we are finally getting to the place where we have homeowners' associations in just about every neighborhood of the Village. And, kind of, I was using the web as the point of the first coordination of that but everyone is talking about the same items like gateways to their neighborhoods, beautification projects, bridges we've talked about-doing similar bridging in places where that is appropriate. So, just to hear this interchange, it presents itself as not a problem but an opportunity, I mean if we are going to light gateways to each neighborhood, then we definitely should look at this. And if Aintree North is torn up, you know, would be the first place to look at. Let's get some numbers. I would be all in favor of that. Again, we can make this an agenda item for the Caucus in terms of everybody go to their