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Council Minutes of 3/1/94 and other streets in this area. The city also intends to put a storm sewer system in on Alexander Road. However, this cannot be accomplished until the county has con~kted con ruction of the box ccilverts. Until the infrastructure work is conflate on Alexander Road, it does not make sense to repair the street. The city Service Department will do temporary patching and repairs to the street this year. Audience Partic~ation Cathy Huth, 23565 Alexander Road, said that Mr. Bohlmann had answered most of her questions. However, she had prepared a statement and wished to read it. 11~rs. H~~tl- stated that the Alexander Road residents were shocked and angry with the decision to exclude the street from long-promised repairs this summer. The reside~tts are upset with the following: 1. They were told to sit quietly by while tons of gravel and equipment and re-routed traffic further destroyed the akeady dilapidated road because Alexander would be next in line to be repaired. 2. Ward II Councilman David Lind was told that the reason for the exclusion was the county sewer project on Claque Road. Mrs. Huth acknowledged that Mr. Hohlnaann had confirmed the county sewer project; however, she feels that Westehe~er's shuation is identical to Alexander, and Westchester is to be repaired this year. She noted that Alexander is a through street and Westche~er is not. 3. The residents also feel they should have received notification of this change in plans instead of having to read it in the newspaper. 4. Residents who have lived on Alexander for thirty or forty years have seen no work done in all that time. Stoneybrook and Westchester are already concrete and curbed, and these streets are having repairs done that the residents feel should have rightfully been done to Alexander a long tune ago. 5. Ward II Councilman Lmd appears to be kept in the dark as to what is going on. The residents need to be able to receive answers to their questions from Mr. Lmd and other elected officials. The residents want to know why Alexander has been exchuled for this year, what criteria was used for the selection of streets to be repaired, when were the decisions made and who made them, and what are the plans for Alexander. Will the street definitely be repaired in 1995? In closing, Mrs. Huth said that many more of the residents would have attended the meeting but were unable to do so because of prior commitments. However, the residents will be submitting a petition to the city. Mrs. Huth said that the street is in such poor repair that paramedics were unable to insert an N into the arm of a resident as the ambulance was driving down the street. This incident was an insult to the gentleman's widow and to all the residents who consider Alexander to be an orphan street. Mr. Bohlmann responded to the remarks of Mrs. Huth and stated that the city had not promised repairs to Alexander in 1994. The street program for 1994 and 1995 originally included 13 streets and was later expanded to 17. With the note ordinance to be passed this evening, the number of streets will be increased to 21 or 22. Engineering services on these streets is continuing. It was he who made the suggestions as to what streets should be repaired, and he feels the rationale behind the choices was valid. Westchester and Olmsted Oval were chosen because there is no major storm sewer running down those streets. It would be fruitless to put curbing or catch basins on Alexander until the storm 5