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Council Minutes of 2/7/2007 has a rating of a 6. The survey rates streets as a whole, not locally. Mr. Limpert said it is his intention. to have the Service Department work on the damaged slabs in this area this year. He also said that time is of essence right now because we need to move l:orward on passing the borrowing ordinance for the Great Northern Blvd. project and these streets would be .included in that ordinance. Mr. Barker asked if there is money in the Service Director's budget for the slab repair work that needs to be done in the Lauren Lane area. Mr. Limpert said that he can use money out of the street maintenance fund. anal if he needs more later in the year then he would come back to Council. Mr. Barker asked if these streets needed to be on a list, and Mr. Limpert said that is not necessary because we are not borrowing money to work on them, we are using General Fund money. Mr. Ryan expressed his concern over the amount of money it will cost the city to service a $1.4 million note. He said. that he would. like to hear from the Finance Director the total cost and would prefer that we are patient with. street maintenance and do not work on streets until we can pay for it with cash -that should be the ultimate goal. The Mayor responded that it is the goal we are all trying to achieve but at this point we cannot rehabilitate our streets if we do not borrow the money to do so. Mr. Talton suggested that he would like to see $60,000 put into a lino item during the budget process for slab repair for Lisa, Lauren and Marcie Lanes. He showed an e-mail. from. 2005 that had those three streets as identified by the City as in need of repair and questioned why they are not on the repair list that Council was given this year, or for 2008 or 2009. Mr. Limpert replied that there are always changes in the streets and after winters because some streets deteriorate at a faster rate than others. 1VIr. Talton said that he would like to see the money set aside so that Council. would know that those streets would be done. The Mayor said that he is not in favor of putting some streets ahead of others to be repaired, when others have ratings that are far worse. Mr. Limpert said it is his intention to go into the Lauren Lane area this year and maintain it as best he can.. Mr. Talton stated that he is asking for these repairs to save the streets and ultimately save the City money later on down the road. Mr. Ryan said that he thought the street survey was a tool l:or Council to use and that Council. should consider the use of the streets and the safety of the drivers as benchmarks as well.. Mr. Limpert said that because street conditions change so rapidly, Council and the Service Director will always have to look at these issues each year and then. decide on how best to spread the maintenance out throughout the City. He said the policy used to be that the City would wait until the road conditions got so bad they would have to hire an outside contractor to complete all of the work, and now they are trying to get some preventative maintenance done in-house before tine street gets too bad. Mr. Talton said that is a good change in policy and that is why he is proposing to have the Lauren Lane area fixed now, before it gets too bad.. The Mayor stated that the overall objective is to save the City money in the long run. He said the purpose of the road survey was to take the politics out of road repair, and he will not make any deals to do streets that are not as bad as others. He also said. that the 2005 e-mail. regarding streets in the city was not completed by professionals. IVtr. Ryan said that we have achoice-- we have a road study that has identified roads that need repair and. we choose to repair the ones that are structurally bad or just 13