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JUN 19 1990. Mr. Cain confirmed that staff's recommendation would be to place this on the petition paving program. Commissioner Bird asked if this was a county road, and Mr. Cain explained that it is one of those limbo roads -- it is not a county maintained road, but is a road that has been dedicated by plat. Administrator Chandler understood that it is a dedicated roadway, but up to this point in time it has not fit our criteria for grading. He believed that Director Davis had some discussion with a resident of 12 Court S.W. a couple of months ago about the possibility.of a petition paving project, but elected to pursue the grading request. He felt we could circle back in again and see if, in fact, those property owners are willing to go through the petition paving process. There are 7 houses on that road. Commissioner Wheeler advised that a couple of the residents were under the impression that just the property owners with residences would have to foot the bill for the entire road, and he had explained to them that the assessment would be done by ownership of front footage and everyone would be sharing in the costs equally whether they had houses built there or not. If the property owners do start the petition process and it is approved by the Board, he could support the grading in the interim, and we may want to consider that in the future too for other roads. MOTION WAS MADE by Commissioner Bowman, SECONDED by, Commissioner Bird, that the Board approve Alternate 1, as set out in the above staff recommendation. Under discussion, Commissioner Bird still wasn't clear about the County's responsibilities on these dirt roads'in these platted subdivisions that are dedicated county roads. He realized it costs money to create roads and we are trying not to expand our grader routes, but on the other hand, he wasn't sure whether we could completely turn our back on our responsibilities 18