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City Council Minutes June 3, 2014 Page 3 of 4 Mayor Adams questioned whether Mr. Dahl had received the ietter regarding a notice of immediate correcti�e action from the Attarney sent in February. Mr. Dahl iRdicated that he did receive the letter, that he talked to Dawn Bittner and that he has taken care o# all the s#uff that was supposed to be cleaned up. Council Member Pederson sta#ed that the Cifjr has records of the past many years on this issue. He fnformed Mr. Dahl #hat Planning and Zoning has worked with him many times during the past se�eral years on this issue. He informed Mr. Dahl #hat a!I o� the stuff on the grouncf needs to be gone. He further explained the need for the City to take action on this issue due to the number of years that this situation has been on-going ar�d due to the number of compiair�ts the City has recei�ed and continues to recei�e. Mayor Adams closed tt�e public heari�g. Attorney Robert Scott re�iewed the findings of fact and conclusions listed in a resofution. He informed #he Council that �he findings ha�e to be basec� on the e�idenee. He recommended that because Mr. Dahl has testified that he doesn't ha�e �he animais listed in the resol�ation that the Council omit paragraph 2d XI I under findings. He explained that the Resolution gi�es the property owner until June 17th to come in#o compliance. If the conditions are not met by the 17t�', a court order to ha�e property cleaned up will be requested. He also suggested t�at if the property owner makes a good faitF� effort and is nearly done with the clean-up by the 17th, the City can make a judgmeR� to extend the time for a couple of weeks. Mayor Adams questior�ed Mr. Dahl as to whether the City would be allowed to access his property to see that improvements have been made. Mr. Dahl indicated that he would allow the City to access the property but he did not want any pict�res taken of the proper#y. Counci[ Member Sjoblad informed Mr. Dahf that once this is clea�ed up, the Gity does not want it to start o�er again. MAYOR ADAMS MOVED TO ADOPT RESOLUTION 14-10 FINDINGS, CQNCLUSIONS AND ORDER OF PEQUOT LAKES CITY COUNCfL REGARDING ALLEGED CODE VIOLATlONS AND NUISANCE CONDITIONS AT 3952 COUNTY ROAD 1T, AND OMiTTING ITEM 2D (xii) REFERRING TO THE ANIMALS. COUNCIL MEMBER SJOBLAD SECON�ED THE MOTfON. MOTION CARRIED 4-0. 12. Adjournment