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Li4/7t -- 2 <br /> • MEMO TO: The Mounds View City Council <br /> FROM: Bruce K. Anderson, Directo <br /> Parks, Recreation and Fore" t , <br /> DATE: September 9, 1982 <br /> RE: Potential purchase of portable shelter buildings <br /> During the past two weeks, staff had read in the newspaper that the Anoka <br /> School District was selling eight of their portable classroom buildings for <br /> approximately $5,200 - $6,000 per building. Staff discussed this issue with <br /> the Parks and Recreation Commissioners at their regularly scheduled meeting <br /> on August 26, 1982 and they directed staff to investigate the possibility <br /> further to determine whether or not the buildings could be feasibly used as <br /> park shelter buildings. On Tuesday, August 31 , 1982 City Councilmember Doty, <br /> Park Maintenance employee Larry Decheine, Superintendent of Public Works Gary <br /> Kardell and myself met with Ken Ernst, who currently owns the buildings , at <br /> the site to view them and determine whether they could indeed be used as <br /> • park shelter buildings. <br /> The buildings are 24 ' x 32 ' in length or 760 square feet and would be portable <br /> shelter buildings similar in size and interior construction to the building <br /> behind Pinewood Elementary School . We found the buildings to be in extremely <br /> good condition with the exterior being grooved cedar with asphalt shingles, <br /> solid wood doors and fully insulated on all six sides. The buildings that are <br /> currently for sale are now in groups of six, as the pictures indicate, and were <br /> initially purchased as separate buildings and placed together in one large <br /> section. The buildings do come apart individually but would need a fourth <br /> finished side to complete the building. The interior of the building is extremely <br /> well done with paneling , carpeting, complete forced air furnace, central air <br /> conditioning , recessed ceiling lights and partitioned off closet space. All six <br /> of the buildings which we observed were in extremely good condition and in the <br /> opinion of all four of us, were being sold well beyond their current purchase or <br /> replacement costs. <br /> • Staff forwarded a letter dated September 2, 1982, to Mr. Ernst, the president of <br /> Ernst Movers, of which I have included a copy requesting additional information <br /> as to the feasibility of the city purchasing the buildings. At this time, I <br />