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Mounds View City Council February 14, 2005 <br />Regular Meeting Page 11 <br /> <br />been made to get the best piece of land for the least amount of money, and he believed that the 1 <br />$700,000 number was good, but he would hate for the deal to fall apart because of a restriction of 2 <br />$700,000. 3 <br /> 4 <br />Council Member Stigney asked what cap he would be comfortable with. 5 <br /> 6 <br />City Clerk/Administrator Ulrich suggested putting the dollar amount from the signed purchase 7 <br />agreement into this resolution. 8 <br /> 9 <br />Council Member Flaherty asked if they would need to cover the costs of cleanup if that has to be 10 <br />done. 11 <br /> 12 <br />Deputy Chief Kruger stated that there is a stipulation in the purchase agreement that gives them 13 <br />until April 30th to get the testing done, and if it needs cleanup, then they will renegotiate or back 14 <br />out of the agreement. 15 <br /> 16 <br />Mayor Marty asked if that were the case if they would come back to the Council if there was a 17 <br />change or a renegotiation. 18 <br /> 19 <br />Deputy Chief Kruger stated that they would either be looking at another piece of property or 20 <br />figuring how it’s going to get cleaned up, whether with Superfund money or whatever. He stated 21 <br />that they are not locked in if there is a problem found on the property. 22 <br /> 23 <br />Finance Director Hansen stated that the other pieces of property they had been looking at were 24 <br />$150,000-$170,000 an acre, and this piece of property was more like $115,000 per acre, so even 25 <br />if a problem turned up, it might be better to do further negotiation rather than go someplace else 26 <br />and pay more money per acre. 27 <br /> 28 <br />Council Member Thomas stated she thought the number in the purchase agreement should be put 29 <br />into the resolution because a new resolution could be brought before the Council if further 30 <br />negotiations became necessary. 31 <br /> 32 <br />Council Member Stigney withdrew his amendment to the motion. 33 <br /> 34 <br />MOTION/SECOND. Stigney/Marty. To put the dollar amount in the purchase agreement as a 35 <br />cap in the resolution. 36 <br /> 37 <br /> Ayes-5 Nays-0 Motion carried. 38 <br /> 39 <br />Mayor Marty stated they would now vote on the resolution. 40 <br /> 41 <br /> Ayes-5 Nays-0 Motion carried. 42 <br /> 43