05-02-2017 Special City Council Meeting Minutes

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City Council Special Meeting Minutes May 2, 2017 Page2of3 • Remove all piles of tree limbs, branches, brush and similar natural debris from the Property. • Remove the trailers currently located on the northeast corner of the Property or store within a structure. • Remove all ladders, lumber, construction materials from the Property or store it within a structure. • Remove the entirety of the pile of tires, buckets, garbage cans, construction materials, garbage, solid waste or other debris from the Property. • Remove the piles of miscellaneous debris from the patio/deck side of the dwelling (firewood is okay). • Store the bicycles in a pile of other debris at the rear of the Property in a shelter and remove the entirety of the rest of such pile of miscellaneous debris from the Property. Deadline of September 1, 2017 • For each snowmobile or similar off-road recreational vehicle on the Property, either remove it from the Property or store it within a structure. Furthermore, after June 13, 2017, the City can enter the Property to conduct an inspection to determine if any of the corrective actions to be completed by the June 13, 2017 deadline remain uncorrected or whether any other code violations exist. For any such uncorrected code violations, the City would then issue a one-time notice allowing the Property Owner ten additional days to comply. After the extension, the City can abate the remaining code violations on the Property and assess all City costs incurred against the Property. The Property Owner has agreed to pay $500 in City attorney fees incurred in addressing this issue, but the City could not assess more than this amount against the Property. City Attorney Scott explained that the remedy provided for in the agreement in the event Mr. Derksen does not perform the corrective actions, City authority to enter the Property and perform the corrective actions itself and assess such costs against the Property, is the same remedy the City would request from the district court if the City did not enter into the agreement and had to take legal action against the Property Owner. City Attorney Scott recommended approval of this tentative agreement. Mark Severson addressed the Council. He noted that this agreement will not set Mr. Derksen up to fail. Mr. Severson requested that all red-lined agreement items he gave to the City Attorney be incorporated into the agreement.