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SEP 41985 BOOK 61 NMGE 958 Attorney Clem asked permission to read the whole letter from Mr. Ansin and quoted as follows: "The top priority in my view is paving the main collector roads, which are 87th Street and 101st Avenue between SR 510 and 512. While in your office yesterday, you estimated that through cooperation between the County and the MSTU the assessed cost to the property owners for this work would be approximately $206,000. Can the cost of this work be funded through a bond issue and repaid by the MSTU through a 10 year special assess- ment? If so, I would support creation of the MSTU at this time. Otherwise, it is unclear to me what creation of an MSTU would now accomplish." Attorney Clem noted that, in other words, the Ansins do support pavement of roads if it can be spread out over a period of time. Attorney Clem further stressed that the Board's past Minutes indicate that it was anticipated that the first action by the advisory board would be to select an engineering firm to perform a road and drainage study for the area, and then when that was done, a program would be developed to implement the study - and that study has not been done. Commissioner Bird asked Director Davis if we changed priorities and assessed and started collecting money to develop a master plan for drainage and a master plan for paving, how long he felt this would take and what approximate cost would he estimate. Director Davis believed a drainage study would take at least a year, but he did not feel it should begin until after we receive the results of the federal study which probably will be done the end of this calendar year. As to the cost of a drainage plan and a master plan for roads, he estimated possibly $60-70,000. He noted that the road right-of-ways are set unless it was desired to abandon some plats; the drainage canals have been established to some degree; and he believed the study would utilize what is on°the ground today. 6