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The City Of Hugo Wants Your Opinion: Is The Old v, I 2t r ' Water Tower Worth Saving. 4r - . At its July 18, 2005 meeting, the Hugo City the structure if it is preserved as a landmark. Council asked the staff to solicit quotes Annual costs for this upkeep are estimated at for both the demolition and the repainting $3,750 (or$75,000 every 20 years). Exterior of Water Tower#1. The Hugo Historical painting would need to be done immediately = Commission was consulted, and they do not (at a cost of$28,950), and interior painting in have a strong opinion as to whether the water 10 years (costing $7,500 - $9,500). : 1 tower should be saved or demolished. The 1! 1 City now wants your opinion about Water So what do you think? Is the tower worth sav- Tower#1: Should it be preserved or should it ing? Please let us know by responding in one be demolished? of the following ways: Demolishing the water tower would involve - through the City's website at www.ci.hugo. a one-time expenditure of$20,526 to tear it mn.us down, and it would free up space at Lions - in writing to City Hall, c/o Michele Lindau, Park for expansion of the Lions Building, as Survey Coordinator desired by the Lions Club. - by calling Michele at 651-762-6315 Keeping the tower would require repaint- Opinions will be collected until the end of the ing the exterior every 10 years and the inte- year. They will then be compiled and posted rior every 20 years. The City would also be on the City's website. required to continue to carry insurance on New Businesses:From Page 2 Standards as a founda- least 10 years. It's tion. something that was badly needed in the Fairview Hugo Clinic community." Opening next door Waters Edge to KinderGardens, in Community and the Victor Gardens Fitness Center Shops at County Road 8 and Victor Hugo At the Waters Edge Boulevard, is the Development, a rib- Fairview Hugo Clinic. bon cutting ceremony 1� The clinic includes for a community and Town Meeting three full-time family fitness center took Monday,November 28,2005 practitioners and one place on September � pediatrician. Exam 85 2005. This private 7'00 p.m. rooms, laboratory facility—intended Rice Lake Centre meeting room at the Hugo Hugo residents are and x-ray services fill only for the use of Public Works Facility invited to a Town the 6,200 square-foot Waters Edge residents space. The facility —includes a commu- Hugo residents are invited to learn more Meeting to learn opened on Tuesday, nity and fitness center, about the City's Emergency Management more about the November 1,2005. pool, exercise room, Plan. Hugo Fire Chief Jim Compton, City ' "It was a very big day meeting space,play- Administrator Mike Ericson, and the City City's Emergency for Hugo,"notes Bear. ground equipment and Council will present the plan and be available Management Plan. "There hasn't been a a basketball court. to answer your questions. Refreshments will clinic in Hugo for at be provided.