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U. GG Laai January II 1996 • City Council, • My wife and 1 have commuted from Lindstrom, into i s: cities, since we moved there in 1992. Every day we ride in together to the ride-shan 1 A at Hwy. 10 & 35W. From there we get our other car and each continue to work. k the end of the day we meet back at the ridcsha e, leave ore car and ride home toge't;r. We have, on oi'ce�sion left a car over the weekend, and even over long holiday welends_ There are no signs posted to indicate restrictions for pazlang in the: i,� , We parked our car at the rideshare 12/15/95. We ret;iii d 12/27 to get our car and it was not there. We called the Moundsview police to si if it had been towed. They said they had no record of it being towed. They also i d it was a private lot, owned by MTC, and they would not be the ones to tow from the t. They recommended we call the MTC bus co. We called MTC, they said 's y do not check -their lots or restrict parking in their lots. On 12/28/96 my wife called the Moundsview police t+I ;sport the car as stolen. She spoke with an officer that had seen the paperwork on ou' •ehicic. He said it had been impounded and referred her to an officer that deals with r;pounds, to find out the reason for it being impounded. On 12/29/95 I called to find out why the car had been ..vapoundd. Spoke with officer Brennan and Rob Frisbey, of the state patrol, the; had no record of the vehicle. They referred me to Chief Ramiker who was on vacat.rt until 1/2/96 On 1/2/96 I spoke with Chief Ramiker. He said he hs : 3o authority over Fr+e`way Towing, but he would call and talk to the towing co. t cc if be could get any fees endued for us. i On 1/3/96 called freeway towing, charges for towing I.11,1 impound totaled S270.. Neither chief Ramiker or myself were able to get a rec r tion on the charges. We feel our vehicle was wrongfully towed. There are posted restrictions at the ride share lot. We asked MTC to send us a brochu t e on park and ride lots, to read of any restrictions. There were no restrictions in tl5 ?rochure. We also strongly feel that if our vehicle were towed, we should have bee' v.fornicad. The- vehicle is registered in our name. We received no calls our letters to a atify us. We were forced to pay the impound lot the $270 in order to get our car etl and avoid further charges, but feel the City of Mounds view should reimburse t=;, At most we should be responsible for charges prior to 12/27 when we initially ca'`;1 Mo ri dsview Police Department to locate our car. The impound was riotrI C as tkeir ws no record of our car being impounded by, or none that the o�c .as a�find for us. Because of poor cornmunieeation among the department, we were liable to resolve anything until 1/3/96. 5} 1111.16Nat 0S