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City Council Regular Meeting Minutes September 13, 2011 Page 5 Ms. Dayna Goebel, 1040 18t" Avenue NE, appeared before the City Council and stated that she and her husband are currently looking to buy a home and are considering moving to St. Anthony. She advised that they have a 30 pound miniature pot belly pig as an indoor pet and stated that they do not want to purchase a home if they cannot get a permit for their pet. 6 Mayor Faust suggested that Ms. Goebel leave her contact information with the Interim City 7 Manager and requested that staff research this issue and follow-up with Ms. Goebel. 8 9 Mr. Thomas Goebel, 1040 18°i Avenue NE, appeared before the City Council and stated that he 10 previously spoke with Councilmember Gray who indicated that they could not get a permit until 11 they were residents of the City. He requested an informal opinion from the City Council 12 regarding their permit request. 13 14 Mayor Faust stated that the Goebel's first step is to talk to staff because the City Council cannot 15 commit to anything without the research from staff. 16 17 Mr. Tom Roepke, 3901 Foss Road, appeared before the City Council and stated that since the 18 last City Council meeting, he has had three inspections of his property for fire, housing, and 19 rental. He indicated that none of his previous requests for information have been met and 20 reiterated his three requests. He advised that the first request is for any permits for work done on 21 his storm sewer connection, the second request is for a memo from City Engineer Hubmer 22 stating the cause of the flooding on his property this summer, and the third request is for a 23 plumbing inspector or civil engineer to validate his storm sewer connection's code compliance. 24 He stated that he has five manila envelopes at his shop addressed to the Mayor and City Council 25 supporting his accusations. He added that he has been working in good faith with the City and 26 still has no answers. 27 28 Interim City Manager Hartman advised that he has not found anything in the commercial file that 29 talks about a new connection to the storm sewer. He stated that Project Manager Messner and 30 City Engineer Hubmer have met with Mr. Roepke a number of times and he is unsure whether 31 Mr. Messner or Mr. Hubmer can state whether the storm sewer connection is code compliant. 32 He agreed to follow-up on the code compliance issue. He stated that staff has also gone through 33 all the blueprints and provided Mr. Roepke with copies of everything on hand as far as the outlet 34 structure. He also agreed to follow-up with Fire Chief Malenick regarding the inspections. 35 36 Mayor Faust assured Mr. Roepke that the City will continue to work with him and will provide 37 the requested information to the extent the information is available. 38 39 Ms. Stephanie Roepke, 3901 Foss Road, appeared before the City Council and stated that she is 40 not sure how many people sustained damages caused by the natural disaster on July 16, 2011, but 41 because of the small value no one is receiving any assistance from FEMA, the County, the State, 42 or other agencies. She indicated that the people at Mirror Lake lost everything and have to pay 43 for the repairs being done. She stated that their business will show a $25,000 loss in inventory 44 and this does not include the extraordinary amount of time to clean up and repair the damages 45 and she questioned how to put a dollar value on time. She indicated that she has customers from 46 all over the metro area and these customers also go to Walmart, Cub, the liquor store, Culver's or 5