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<br />ARDEN HILLS CITY COUNCIL - JUNE 26, 2006
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<br />decided to put on a totally new roof. I set out to find carpcnters, I hired two carpenters after
<br />receiving an excellent reference for them from the Perkins Restaurant Manager. I then went to
<br />the Arden Hills Village office, requested and received a building permit to put on a new roof.
<br />The carpenters then went to the Village office. requested, and received instructions to put on the
<br />roof exactly to the Village requirements. The carpenters spent 3 days putting on the new roof,
<br />and a 4th day working on the outside of the building. There were no openings, no loose boards, -
<br />the building is not sagging, or leaning, even though 4 days were spent on the building, the
<br />building inspector did not come out in all that time, and when I called the Village office for
<br />inspection, the inspector came out, but would not go up to look at the roof. He wrote a letter
<br />saying that he did not have a way to get on the roof, and he then mailed a new listing of
<br />complaints against me that were false, I paid $2,000,00 to the carpenter for their work, which
<br />was totally satisfactory to my son and myself. Not until all of the work was completed on the
<br />building was I told that the building was unsafe and had to be taken down. It makcs no sense to
<br />say that the building is unsafe, The carpenters weighed a total of 450 Ibs" and spent 3 days on
<br />the roof. The neighbor on the south side eamc to us twice, to assure us that he had not
<br />complained about the building, I called Lowell Anderson on the north side, and he said
<br />"absolutely not" to my question of whether he had a complaint against the building. He then
<br />wrote and mailed a letter to Mayor Aplikowski, expressing his feelings of what the Village was
<br />doing to me, Mrs, Aplikowski can show you that letter.
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<br />My husband has passed away; I'm alone, in poor health, and bedridden much of the time, My
<br />son Marlin lives 50 miles away, and in the short time that he can be here, he is trying to empty
<br />our building, I have said over and over again that when we sell the property, the first thing the
<br />new owners will do is to take down the storage building to make way for their new home, There
<br />is absolutely no sense in taking that building away from me,
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<br />There are so many people staying in touch with me about this, I'm in close contact with a well
<br />known building inspector from Minneapolis, and with an attorney recommended to me,
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<br />Mrs, Martin Stenberg
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<br />Mr. Filla stated in 2004 the City filed a citation in Criminal Court, which took an inordinate
<br />amount of time to resolve, He noted Mrs, Stenberg had pled guilty to the charges with
<br />conditions, but failed to sign the conditions and was therefore appearing before the judge again in
<br />the near future, He stated he did not believe the City could have done anything else to work with
<br />the property owner. He indicated this had been a six-year process and tbe property has not been
<br />cleaned up during this time period.
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<br />Mayor Aplikowski stated sbe bad looked at the property about a year ago and had requested
<br />Mrs. Stenberg remove the fence, which she had refused to do. She stated she had also offered to
<br />remove all of Mrs, Stenberg's personal property and take it to her, whicb she also refused, Sbe
<br />believed tbis was an unsafe condition and sbe did not understand why Mrs, Stenberg was so
<br />resistant to accepting help,
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