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n 1. Contracting with the county to maintain roads as they have done in the past within the funds available to us. They have included some major improvements such as E1 Monte carrying traffic as a whole instead of just the local area. This was done for the benefit of businesses which are paying considerable county taxes. 2. Contracting with a local or private contractor for individual maintenance job or taking the entire main- tenance job for a period of time. All improvements would be done'by written approval. Overhead would probably amount to 25 per cent of the total expenditure which does not include labor. Labor and material cost would be about equal. The only problem is the question of labor which includes supervision and direction. Actual maintenance is a minor item of the total expendi- ture. An alternative would be to have the contractor furnish his own trucks and manpower and maintain the roads under our supervision and jurisdiction. 3. Establishing a department of our own for road work where- by the Town would either lease or buy equipment and doing its own work with a one-man road crew using a multipurpose truck. Rough estimates were made on cost of labor, ma- terial and equipment to be used by the committee. There is also a possibility that the latter two methods can be combined. Mr. Rothwell asked if there were any check figures available on what the county spent and breakdown of the budget on maintenance of the roads. Mr. Macabee, Mr. Gardner and Mr. Hibner presented various county cost estimates to determine our own maintenance and improvement cost. The county is not required to break down their maintenance and construction costs. In summary of how the 29.6 miles of streets and roads in Los Altos Hills might be maintained, Vice Mayor Dungan extended his thanks in behalf of the council for the background work of the road committee. - 4 - 3-26-56