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Message Page 2 of Regarding the suggested complaints from residents, I am more than willing to discuss those issues with you as long as they are specific and not general. I'll ask you to do what you ask us to do. Put the specifics in writing so I have a basis for a conversation and we can meet face to face to discuss the issues. However, I would like an additional representative from the Boosters present at the conversation so that there's no confusion as to what is talked about and what is said. I feel like the response 1 received is a deflection of what the real issue is here. The real issue is is what is the City leadership doing to hold the architects and the contractor accountable for a timely and satisfactory completion of this project. The questions asked this morning are all relevant to the timely and satisfactory completion of the project. 1 did not get a response from Ms. Hall or Mr. Hartman to the questions that were asked. Did you? George Original Message From: Hodson, Randy[mailto:hodson@edcsolutions.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 8:36 AM To: George Zurbey Subject: RE: Central Park George, Could you please give me a call at my office. I'd like to talk about this. Your negative attitude has been a detriment throughout this entire process. I have had several complaints from residents and commission members echoing the this concern. If anything you have been a wedge, dividing any possibility of cooperation between this team, I've forward your email on to Sue Hall and Jay Hartman since Mike is on vacation. I'd like to follow-up on this as soon as possible. Randy Hodson Original Message From: George Zurbey [mailto:george@uvcolor.comj Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 7:43 AM To: mmornson@ci.saint-anthony.mn.us Cc: rhodson@ci.saint-anthony.mn.us; alumniguy©nwc.edu Subject: Central Park Mr. Mornson, At the joint meeting of the Parks Commission and the City Council held on June 9th, Rich Koechlien of URS gave us a timeline for the completion of the Central Park project. Please refer to the minutes of that meeting on page three lines 20 through 27, We were told that the landscaping would be completed by the end of next week. The parking lot, trails and basketball court would begin next week. All above ground equipment was to be completed within the next week and the project was to be substantially completed within the next three weeks, at which time a punch list was to be put together and the growth of the grass was to be assessed, This time table was given to us after we had been told earlier in the year that the project would be substantially completed by June 1. June 30th has come and gone, and by the looks of things, very little haE been accomplished over the past four weeks. it appears that none of the items that we were assured woulc be completed at the latest by June 30th, are complete. On a tour this past Sunday, the only progress appeared to be a portion of the curbing for the parking lot. Trails were not done, landscaping was not started other than tree stakes being put in place, the basketball court was not done and so on. In addition, there continues to be erosion issues, the grass is not filling in adequately, and the practice football field appears to becoming a bed of weeds. These are the bigger items. Smaller items such as the pitchers mound on the varsity field have not been addressed and there appears to be no grass growing on the 7/10/2003