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MEMO TO: The Mounds View City Council <br />FROM: Bruce K. Anderson, Direct0 <br />Parks, Recreation and Fore ry <br />DATEi 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 />�._.......iy ,, nn.l:: nn ,nd in fhu <br />of the buildings which 'r;c obscrrcd Sara io z n goc a ..i .. <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 he buildings. At this time, I <br />