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Council Minutes of 5/2/2000 • Canterbury Road is much too narrow, which creates a safety hazard, and the utilities ,. should be moved underground. • An engineering study is needed to determine the scope of the project. • It is his understanding that some of those opposed to the project for this year do not feel the funds are available. However, he has been told that, even if this project is done this year, the city will retire more debt than it incurs. • He proposes that the residents form a committee to work with the Streets & Drainage Committee to gather the necessary information and at some time in the future bring the engineering study to another vote. President Saringer told Mr. Gideon that committee meetings are open to the public and he is most welcome to attend. Mr. Gareau explained that this issue (and other capital improvements) had been discussed at aCommittee-of--the-Whole so that the entire Council could be involved. He would be happy to go back and look at Canterbury Road again at the beginning of 2001. Council has requested that the administration submit the capital improvements project early next year so it is possible that we may be as little as seven months away from having a discussion on Canterbury Road. Mr. Gideon said he would like to help gather the information (the need for medians, how to save the trees, etc.) so that there are no unanswered questions when the issue is discussed. He would still like to see the engineering study done this year. Mr. Gareau said he felt that the cost of the engineering was not a small amount of money and he does not believe it should be done until there is a commitment to do the project. Mr. O'Grady asked to respond to Mr. Nashar's earlier comments about the condition of Stearns Road. He lives immediately off of Stearns Road and believes there is no comparison. South Canterbury Road is in greater need of repair and presents far more in the way of hazards due to the construction of the road and the proximity of the telephone poles. John Matheny, 5656 South Canterbury Road, does think the road needs to be repaired. There is one big key issue that is being neglected and that is, when Viewpoint was going in, Shorewest Construction was told at a meeting that they were going to be responsible for repairs to the road when everything was done. He would like to know how much money Shorewest is putting in to the project because most of the damage that has been done is from construction vehicles which were not supposed to use the road. Mr. McKay said it is his understanding that you cannot hold a construction company responsible for that, but he will refer that question to the Law Director. Law Director Gareau commented that, typically, construction projects have a haul road. In the past, the Engineering Department has videotaped roads prior to construction to document the condition of the road. Part of the proposal for using streets as a haul road is that there has to be an agreement with the contractor that they will in fact repair any damage that they do when using a street as a haul road. He does not know for sure whether any such agreement was made with Shorewest with regard to Canterbury Road or if the street was videotaped. He suspects that it was not done because, if it was, then some action would have been taken with respect to a contribution to have that road repaired and identify the '~""`' damage that was done as a result of it being a haul road. Nothing has come across his 9