Residents object to city sidewalk assessments By ELAINE RIDEOUT City officials say they have learned a lesson from-mistakes made while carrying out a city-wide sidewalk repair program approved last February-the first special sidewalk assessment to be levied in 150 years. Two Ann Arbor residents objected to the city's special assessment process at a public hearing last night before City Council. "I OBJECT VIOLENTLY to this process," Robert Borer, a University Hospital physician told Council. Borer was charged $363.38 for repairs on sidewalks in front of his South University Street home. He said, "I had not received any notice prior to construction saying I was to be charged for it." Borer added he first became aware, of the special assessment on Nov. 25 when he received a letter from City Engineer Leigh Chizek apologizing for the oversight. "We totally missed his address," Chizek explained, adding that large volumes of paperwork had complicated the assessment process. BRENDA HERMAN, property manager of McKinley Properties, said her firm was charged $1,345 for sidewalk repair on Geddes Road after receiving a job estimate of $750 from the city. "I got a bill for $1,350 when I was only planning on spending $750," Herman told Council. In addition, she said her firm had notified the city prior to the construction that they desired to have the repairs made by a private contractor. "We granted permission, but another segment of the engineering department was not aware of it," Chizek ex- plained. "THIS IS THE worst mistake we have been able to un- cover," he added. He said the original estimate for sidewalk repairs at the McKinley property only covered repairs for 300 square feet. The engineering department later re-calculated that 570 square feet of walk needed to be replaced at the site. "To the best of my knowledge, all other people have been reasonably assessed," Chizek said. But Borer said he was not sure whether he had been reasonably assessed. "I never knew which plaques needed to be replaced. I may have been overcharged without being aware of it," he said. He suggested that in the future the city send specifications for proposed sidewalk replacement and an explanation of the repair program to assessed residents. COUNCILWOMAN LESLIE MORRIS (D-Second Ward) said repairs in her neighborhood, seemed to be designated on an arbitrary basis. "Our inspectors need to use some general criteria," she said. "On my side, two different repair programs were going on simultaneously - neither knew of the other and both cited different squares which needed to be replaced." Coluncilman Louis Senunas (R-Fourth Ward) suggested the city initiate an audit program to insure that recommen- ded sidewalk repairs are necessary. In other business, City Attorney Bruce Laidlaw said the city has settled a lawsuit with the engineering firm of Ayres, Lewis, Norris & May out of court. The city filed suit against the firm last January for defective design work on im- provements to the City Water Treatment Plant. Laidlaw said the firm has agreed to correct the problems caused by the design defects at no extra charge to the city. "I think it is a reasonable settlement," he said. Police notes Thieves take liquid assets Maybe they were going to a party. Thieves kicked in a back door panel and entered a home in the 2500 block of Parkwood Saturday night, and then stole 12 bottles of Strohs *beer, police said yesterday. Beer was also the goal of thieves who smashed the window of the Quik Pik in the 600 block of S. Maple Road, early Sunday. The robbers got away with $84 worth of beer, including two, cases of Miller, two cases of Heinekin, and a case of Michelob. Good Samaritan' robs man An offer of a ride home turned into a holdup Saturday night for a Man- chester resident, police said yester- day. After striking up a conversation at the University Hospital emergen- cy room, a young man offered to drive the 52-year-old Manchester resident home. The pair left on the pretext of walking to the younger man's car, the victim told police, but when they reached Fifth Avenue and Summit Street the good samaritan stuck a gun in his back and deman- ded his wallet. After taking $90 the gunman fled on foot. r with psychi (Continued from Page 1) "This is an extraordinary experience and one I have never encountered before in the whole of my career. There is certainly no medical explanation or medical solution to the problem." WESTBURY SAID the twins are ar- ticulate and of normal intelligence and were not suffering from mental illness but from a "personality disorder." In addition, a senior psychiatrist who asked not to be identified said: "Their total parallel identity, particularly their constant oneness in speaking, takes them far beyond any other sets of identical twins known to psychological medicine. This must be the nearest thing the world has ever seen to a daily unrehearsed dazzling display of telepathy." The magistrates deferred sentencing and said meantime they must stay away from Iveson. From the dock the twins replied in unison: "We have lear- ned our lesson. We have been to prison and we won't bother him again." BUT WHEN they appeared Nov. 4, The Michigan Daily-Tuesday, December 9, 1980-Page 3 Twins baffle experts behavior eachwearing one pink mitten and one brown woolen glove, police said they'd broken their promise by again following Iveson to work and standing outside his factory. BUT OFFICIALS have given some details of their life, described by York social worker Jean Oglethorpe as "one mind in two bodies." 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