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DORS EY & WHITNEY L L P MINNEAPOLIS PILLSBURY CENTER SOUTH NEW YORK WASHINGTON,D.C. 220 SOUTH SIXTH STREET DENVER LONDON MINNEAPOLIS,MINNESOTA $$402-1498 SEATTLE BRUSSELS TELEPHONE: (612) 340-2600 FARGO HONG KONG FAX: (612) 340-2868 BILLINGS DES MOINES William R SOth ROCHESTER (612)340-2969 MISSOULA Fax(612)340-7800 COSTA MESA $Oth.wMiam®dorseylaw.COm GREAT FALLS September 30, 1997 By Fax and Mail Michael J. Mornson City Manager City of St. Anthony 3301 Silver Lake Road St. Anthony, MN 55418 Re: Stormwater Management Task Force Subcommittee Report • Dear Mike: This letter is in response to your request that I comment on various paragraphs in the above-referenced report. The following comments are numbered to correspond to the numbered paragraphs in the report. 1. Residents eligible to receive funding. As we have discussed in the past and as indicated in the opinions from our office and from the League of Minnesota Cities, the residents are not eligible to receive funding from the City. If the City is collecting damage data for purposes of possible funding from other agencies, that is permissible, but the residents should not infer that this is for purposes of City funding. As you have indicated in your letter to the residents, this information will be helpful when City officials report to legislators, state and federal, about the damage in St. Anthony. I understand that the residents were advised at the September 9 meeting that the City is not permitted by law to pay flood relief assistance. This should be re-emphasized so that the residents who read the report and who attended the Septem_ ber 23 meeting do not have the mistaken impression that they can expect financial assistance from the,City. 2. Eligible expenses. The same comments in paragraph 1 above apply to this • paragraph of the report.