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MEMO TO: Mayor and City CO \ <br />FROM: Clerk-Administrat <br />DATE: January 3, 1984 <br />SUBJECT: FIRE DEPARTMENT CORRESPONDENCE <br />Attached please find a letter received o ytthishe office from e city Fire <br />Chief Ron Fagerstrom providing a copy <br />ordinance which provides for the charging of costs incurred by <br />the city for extinguishing fires resulting from the acts of <br />individuals who are neither a resident of the city nor an owner <br />of real property in the city which is subject to real estate <br />property taxes. <br />Chief Fagerstrom, suggesting <br />not <br />thatstating <br />citysuch <br />consider the adoption <br />er, is <br />more than likely Bugg 9 <br />•\, of such an ordinance which, at face value, has some merit. Just <br />recently the Fire Department was called out on a vehicle fire at <br />the intersection of County Road ii and Old Highway 8. The owner <br />of that vehicle is not a resident nor a property owner in the <br />City of Mounds View, however, the cost of fighting such a fire <br />can be considered to have been subsidized by the taxpayers of <br />Mounds View through our contract with the Fire Department. <br />�. <br />It was my`experience f r throt-ire <br />tion services e City Of ltoerural eareas our rthat <br />uepartnen6 pro'_ c e F- <br />when the Department billed the property aideforfor <br />theselexpensesey <br />the property owners insurance company p <br />RECOMMENDATION: Authorize staff to develop an ordinance similar <br />to the City of New Hope's, with the assistance of the Fire Chief <br />and City Attorney Meyers. <br />DFP/Pf <br />Attachment <br />