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Mounds View City Council June 9, 2003 Regular Meeting Page 4 1 Council Member Stigney indicated he understood why Mr. Hall did not want to contact her but 2 asked if he had contacted Mr. Ericson who is her boss. 3 4 Mr. Hall indicated he spoke with Mr. Ericson but was told that this is Kathy’s job and was to get 5 back to him with more information and he has not done that. 6 7 Interim City Administrator Ericson indicated there are building code issues and fire code issues. 8 He then indicated that Mr. Hall was made aware of the proper procedure for appealing building 9 code issues and fire code issues but the response was that he did not feel he would be given a fair 10 shake at that hearing. He further commented that the fire code issues are out of the City’s hands. 11 12 Council Member Marty indicated that the City needs to find out what is going on and determine 13 what the actual requirements are. 14 15 Mayor Linke indicated that Mr. Hall called him last week to discuss it and he met with him at the 16 Mermaid and provided the information to him. He then indicated he is doing some research and 17 will continue working on it. 18 19 Mr. Hall also asked for clarification on how often and for how long the tent can be used because 20 he is receiving mixed information from Kathy. He then said that it seems that Kathy is 21 interpreting the Code to the most severe complicated way possible for him and he does not feel 22 that is good for the City or for him. 23 24 Mayor Linke indicated that he and Mr. Ericson would work on the matter. 25 26 David Jahnke of 8428 Eastwood Road indicated he has the book, Death of Common Sense at 27 home and suggested someone maybe could use it. He then said that something should be done 28 about that situation and moved on to comment that with all the budget cuts from the state he has 29 not seen this City make any attempts at cutting or looking at ways to reduce the budget. 30 31 Mayor Linke indicated that Council has not worked on next years budget. 32 33 Mr. Jahnke indicated he watches the work sessions and has seen nothing yet for cutting and, at 34 the same time, raises were given. He then said that other cities are freezing wages and making 35 cuts and he sees this City doing nothing to deal with the budget issues before it. 36 37 Mr. Jahnke asked if anyone had seen what New Brighton did because they have made some 38 drastic moves in an attempt to make up their budget deficit. 39 40 6. SPECIAL ORDER OF BUSINESS 41 42 A. Senator Betzhold and Representative Connie Bernardy Presentation 43 44