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--,. Beckmann: The Task Force wholeheatedly supports that recommendation. Our constraint was a dollar one and we tried to work within those dollars. Carnival: I would encourage you to get the numbers and bring it back and request funding from the next Council to do exactly that. To get it all done at one time, so that when all the undergrounding is done that the merchants can finally see some cosmetic things that John was referring to. Oliver: This plan does include laying the ground work for piping so that the undergrounding can be done without tearing the street up again. Brand: The Task Force was charged with bringing a recommendation to you in December. If you approve it you can authorize us to go ahead and start the design work on this so that the work can be done in the early spring. When the design work is actually done and we know the exact cost, there will be an opportunity for more refinement. These are the first priorities and as Tom has mentioned we are meeting with Public Service on Friday. This is the conceptual recommendation. We will then begin to do the design and schedule for implementation, if you approve it this evening. Davidson: Does the conduit that you are going to put underground for future power cables also include the telephone and the cable TV? Does it also include conduit to run to future street light locations, if we go to a more scenic type? Phare: If we underground conduit we have to underground it all. It doesn't make sense to do just portions of it. Unfortunately, the telephone and cable TV doesn't come out of the undergrounding allowance from Public Service. That would mean cash out of our project fund. I still think we can get it all done in those three blocks if we get the underground sleeve ready to go in the future. That is subject to further refinement as we get into the project. We will need to get more firm estimates and concepts for what we are doing. S