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Council Minutes of 4IZf21!@Z „~.~ items should be placed in next year and perhaps a bigger dollar figure be applied for Brendan Lane. Mayor Musial said that he had the city estimator, Bill Minek, go out and look at Brendan Lane sometime ago. He came back with the figure of $380,000. He has been out again within the past week and said that amount will cover it. Bill has been right-on in his estimates. There is a ratio of either 60'/0 or 70%. If you go above that, it is cheaper to do a total rec;onst~udion. If you go below, then it is slab repair. At this particular pourt in time, it wears to be slab. The $380,000 is supposed to cover it. Mr. Miller said that Mrs. Kasler's recollection was also his. They fah Brendan Lane was the worst street in the city and were amazed that $380,000 nsight be enough and asked the administration to go back and check on it. They seriously doubted and questioned whether slab repair would be enough. Mr. Gateau said that Brendeui Lane has been discussed for a number of years. So everyo~ understands how the process has worked in the past, Council would be requested to fund a certain amourn for slab repair. It was not that individual streets were fimded. There was a list of streets, the funding mechanism was in place and the is~te of the streets that would be done was an issue for the administration, not City Council. Brendan Lane has corninuatly been on the lid, and it seems to somehow drop down the list. It is to the point where, if it's not done immediately, it will be a complete tear-out-af it's not ahrady. Mr. Dailey said he thought the residents were trying to say they would rather have the slab repair than have Brendan Lane pushed aside again. They would much rather see Brendan Lane ripped out completely and repaved in place of Sa~uth Canterbury Road getting repaved, which is already an asphah street and, as far as asphalt streets go, is okay. Mr. Ralph said he had spoken to Mr. IVfinek when he was looking at the street, atxl he had said that there was no way slab repair would do it. There is not enough concrete left to tie to. Mayor Musial said he will ask Bill Minek to look at the street a third time. Also, he will find out what a total reconstruction would be. ff Council can fund that additional money, so be it. Mr. Ralph said he would love to sae it done because ft is becoming a real haas~td and the cold patch does not do the job. Mrs. Kesler said, when she first came on Council, she had been given the figure of $800,000 far the fatal reconstruction of Brendan Lane. Is putting $380,000 irno slab repair just putting good money after bad when the street old be torn out? Mr. McKay said he wished to correct one thing that Mr. Dailey had said. ff he believes Canterbury is a good asphalt street, he should drive dawn it. Jean Lieb, 4577 Kew Drive, is currently the president of the North Park Estates homeowners association. She received a telephone call from someccme telling her that the money set aside to do slab reP~' in her neighborhood was on the tabs possibly to be cut for this year. As Mr. Limpert said, this has been going on for many years. She has lived in the neighborhood for four years. At every single homeowners meeting sere attends, there is discussion about the condition of the roads. Approximately ten to twelve years ago, there was joirn grinding done in the neighborhood with the ~ that it would extend the life of the concrete for six to eight more years. Former Service Director Bohlmann told the residents at a aceeting on March 1, 2000, that it didn't last that long. 'T'hey quit doing it when they realized it wouldn't last long. It has been ten to twelve years since that's been done. They were told the neighborhood would probably not be done in 2000, but would be done in 2001. Here it is 2002, and they are hearing that this possibly could be cut again. It's only $150,000, and that may not be enough to finish the 13