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-4- steps which had been taken to facilitate the availability of Small Business Administration loans for homes and businesses which had suffered losses in excess of 40% which were under or not insured. Mr. Soth ' s May 16th letter to Mr. Childs had indicated there was little possibility that the City would receive state disaster aid and the Manager indicated he perceived no . reason to have the state make an audit since it appeared such an audit would make little or no difference and would have to be paid for by the City. The Manager recommended the City accept Hennepin .County' s proposal. to provide assessing services in 19.85 for $16 ,900 which was less than they, charged the City in 1984 . Motion by Councilman- Marks and seconded by Councilman Ranallo to adopt -Resolution 84-026 . RESOLUTION 84-026 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR AND CITY MANAGER TO ENTER INTO AN AGREEMENT WITH THE HENNEPIN COUNTY ASSESSOR FOR ASSESSING SERVICES IN 1985 Motion carried unanimously. Councilman Makowske indicated she had received numerous calls from residents whose trees had been damaged in the tornado who had been • unable to get their branches out in the street before the City cut off the emergency, chipping services .without notice to the residents that the service had been terminated.. One of those callers , Allan Brown, 3523 Harding Street N.E. , who was present, questioned whether there would be enough. cases like his to involve a major pickup effort by the City. Mr. Childs responded by saying the chipping service had been discon- tinued' at iscon-tinued. at the end of ten days after the tornado because of the cost and the fact that contractors were abusing the program by throwing debris out in the streets whichthe residents had already paid them to haul away. Now that he had told so many residents. the City could no longer take care of their branches free of charge, the Manager indicated he was concerned those persons might become angry to find the service had been reinstated after they had made other arrangements for their branch. removal. He added that City crews had become so far behind in their. regular spring projects__ _ that those jobs would have to be completed before another-:chipping program could be undertaken. Councilmen Ranallo and Makowske had indicated they had reservations about not extending the service because the City had not published the date of the cutoff and "two weeks didn't seem to be an inordinate. time to provide the service to the residentsin an emergency" , but they finally concurred that the 'City had to draw the line somewhere and that the City. crews could go back to .chip the branches which- are still • in the streets at a. nominal charge, whenever they could work it into .er their schedule. The 'was further agreement tha-t this service would not include removal of stumps.