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Mounds View City Council March 10, 2003 Regular Meeting Page 15 1 Finance Director Hansen indicated he was not with the City in July of 2001 but as he understand 2 a police report was filed but the original person who wrote the check could not be found. 3 4 Council Member Stigney asked what the City’s procedure is for verifying checks out at the golf 5 course. 6 7 Golf Course Manager Burg indicated that the course is implementing checking drivers license 8 and noted that, if Council approves the point of sale cash register program it would allow for 9 swiping of driver’s licenses in an effort to verify. 10 11 Mayor Linke indicated that he has been at other courses that require a thumbprint for a check 12 over a certain dollar amount. 13 14 Golf Course Manager Burg indicated it would be simple to implement a thumb printing policy 15 for check writing at the golf course and said that would be discussed along with other verification 16 information. 17 18 Council Member Stigney asked whether the insufficient funds checks were put through the 19 maximum number of times. 20 21 Finance Director Hansen indicated that all of the checks were but through at least twice. 22 23 Council Member Stigney asked why the City could not be reimbursed for the false fire alarms 24 and police alarms. 25 26 Finance Director Hansen indicated that state law allows the City to certify false fire alarms to the 27 property taxes as leverage for collecting but that is not true of false police alarms. He then 28 explained that, in the case of Calvin Academy, the business owner is not the property owner so 29 the City would be certifying the amount created by the business to the property owner. 30 31 Mayor Linke suggested getting in touch with the owner of the property to let them know what is 32 going on and tell them that the next step may be certifying to the property taxes. He then 33 recommended contacting Dan Anderson of Kraus Anderson Realty 34 35 Council Member Stigney suggested that all of these items could be taking to conciliation court at 36 one time and that may be something to consider. He then asked about the contested legal fees 37 and whether there was any chance of collecting them. 38 39 Finance Director Hansen explained that in the past the City did not require an agreement from the 40 developer to pay the legal fees associated with a development and these legal fees occurred under 41 that old policy so the City does not have leverage to collect the fees. He further commented that 42 the City does now require that any legal fees incurred as a result of the development request be 43 paid by the developer. He then reviewed the outstanding legal fees and explained the situations. 44 45