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0176 COUNCIL MEETING November 12, 1985 The regular meeting of the Lino Lakes City Council was called to order at 7:00 P.M. by Mayor Benson. Council members present: Bohjanen, Reinert, Marier and Kulaszewicz. Members absent: none. City Attorney, Bill Hawkins; Engineer, Bob Toddie; Auditor, Rob Tautges; Building Inspector, Peter Kluegel; Public Works Director, Don Volk; Administrator, Randy Schumacher; Clerk- Treasurer, Marilyn Anderson were also present. Mr. Herb Johnson, Cable TV Representative and Councilman- elect, Harold Bisel were in the audience. CONSIDERATION AND APPROVAL OF MINUTES - October 28. 1985 Mr. Bohjanen moved to approve these minutes. Mr. Kulaszewicz seconded the motion. Mr. Marier noted on page two, last paragraph, second line, the word "ton" should read "ten ". Motion carried to include the correction. CONSIDERATION AND APPROVAL OF DISBURSEMENTS October 31, 1985 - Mr. Marier moved to approve these disbursements as presented. Mr. Kulaszewicz seconded the motion. Motion carried unanimously. November 12, 1985 - Mr. Bohjanen moved to approve these disburse- ments as presented. Mr. Reinert seconded the motion. Motion carried unanimously. OPEN MIKE Mr. Alan Irwin of 6466 Totem Trail appeared before the Council to tell them of the problem he is having regarding his house settling and his inability to obtain correction from either the builder or the new home warranty insurance. He had several items of correspondence and other materials that were relevant to his situation and passed copies of them to the Council members. He explained that his house was built in 1978 and built on peat soils. He detailed his search for soil tests that should have been performed on his lot before the footings were poured but has not been able to determine if tests were ever performed. He cited some state laws which would require soil tests on lots such as his and the Lino Lakes Code requires that there will be no building on soils such as are present on his lot until the builder proves his construction techniques will allow for unsuitable soils. This proof must be certified by a registered engineer. To his knowledge this was not done, however the Building Inspector at that time and the builder did build a bond beam of which there is no recprd. Cracks appeared in the house basement within the first year of being built and the builder did patch the cracks. Within six months the cracks reappeared. Now the back of his house has settled about 2i ". The INA insurance company did send an engineer to check his house and he reported there was some damage but 1 1