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Joint Meeting, Lake Elmo City Council and Lake Elmo PZC--October 11, 1977 Present -City Council: Mayor Armstrong, Councilman Shervheim, Pott and Morgan and Councilwoman Lyons. PZC: Chairman Grace and members Novak, Lundquist, Crombie, Sovereign, Johnson, Dreher & Michaels. Meeting called to order at 5:24 p.m. jointly by Mayor Armstrong and Chairman Grace. Mobile Homes --Bldg. Inspector Mueller advised that the state has passed a regulation imposing responsibility for mobile home in- spection on local government. This must be set up and a local code adopted by July 1, 1978. If we don't the state will perform the function and charge us $15.00 per hour whether or not we set up a charge program for inspections. This is separate from the State Bldg. Code --it is a separate mobile home code. L. Anderson: -Mueller -A fellow called me up and asked that I inspect 2 units that I have that are prefab down here in Afton to see if they meet the State Bldg. Code. I went down there and checked them over and as far as I could tell, with some minor changes, they did meet, in fact, the Bldg. Code. I did not measure them for size because I didn't know he ever intended to bring them into the village. Ile said he was going to put them together, add on the necessary to make the square footage etc. etc. I said fine and dandy and he was going to go into Eden Park as he was looking at a lot there. That was the last I heard of it until a few weeks ago I got a call from the man and he said do they still comply and he met me at the council meeting one night and yakked about it and I said well don't forget if you're going to move them into the village you'll have to get a moving permit and you're going to have licensed mover bring them in and we ask for $1,000. bond in case there is any damage to the roadway or the curbs etc. fine --the next thing I know he says Do they still meet the code? He says, I'm finalizing my deal with Tom Schwartz. I said, don't forget to get the permit now. He says they're being moved at 2:00 o'clock tomorrow morning. I said you better come in at 8:00 A.M. tomorrow morning and take out the permit. So that hadn't been done; that in the meantime everybody got shook up about it because they are tar paper covered. They are not very presentable and last Tuesday night, if the council remembers, I spent about 1-1/2 hours in the back room with this person and his plans are not acceptable, so right now the situation is just sitting there. I've tried to catch him living in it. Raleigh --John, did you call Ray Marshall? He is expecting youto call and fill out the complaint on bringing them in without a permit. John Mueller--Ok I'll call him tomorrow. So that is the situation with this gentleman and as usual were a $ short and a day late. These things happen so fast and you can't get around to all of them but we will prosecute him on that score and once he gets that squared away if the buildings