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x Paul Palzer From: Mark.N.Cunningham@wellsfargo.com Sent: Wednesday,July 01, 2015 8:41 AM To: Mike Ericson Cc: Paul Palzer;Greg Burmeister;Tom Wilharber Subject: Water drainage problem on Brian Drive Importance: High Mike, Thank you for scheduling the town meeting last night to go over the Brian Dr.drainage problem. The meeting was almost a complete waste of time for those of us serious about correcting our drainage issues on Brian Drive. After 4+ months of active conversation between us about the South End drainage on Brian Drive I was extremely disappointed that without notice the meeting became a bid for correcting all of Brian Dr/Brian Way which we clearly discussed between us as a show stopper to corrected the problem for the part of the neighborhood currently willing to work with the city. As long as the city has a policy of only paying 25%of total cost of a correction project like this and part of the project remains an almost$9,000 street tear up of the$20,000 total cost,you will not get support from the whole neighborhood. Especially considering across the street an identical project was paid for in full by the city. Here was the outcome from the residence perspective from last night. 1) We accept the project as is, homeowner cost roughly$1200, almost 50%of cost is to fix street and culvert which is an issue for half the block. —Proposal rejected for the 4t time since 2013, redoing the same thing to the same owners repeatedly is a waste of your time and ours. 2) Suggestion by North End owners to bring the issue back to counsel and City pays for Street portion and 50%of remaining cost. Based on currently policy that is a no go. 3) Suggestion again by South End owners to get a separate bid to tile our back yards into the main street storm drain with city paying 25%. Advised it was not the recommendation of the city and we could pay for entire project out of pocket. So to recap,we are back at square one, having the same conversations over again. At this point the blame for our current situation rides on the following three factors according to what we were told last night. 1) The prior administration didn't address this issue properly. 2) It won't be fixed because the majority of home owners won't pay for it. 3) The money allotted for corrections like this the current administration has chosen to spend elsewhere and not address the major drainage problems many neighborhoods suffer. 1 own 2 houses in this town. My current house 1853 Revoir St. has a sump pump that runs once every 20 minutes 365 days a year. I run it into a back yard that is supposed to drain thru my neighbors into a culvert but because they were allowed to put a playhouse/shed in the middle of the easement it simply sits in my yard. *I'd like to note that as a formal complaint. For my sump to run year round also either means the city allowed the property to be built below the water table or I sit on a spring. Either way if I lose power in my house for more than 3 hours, my basement will flood without backup power. My other house 7130 Brian Dr has a storm drain on main street that was built above grade so our water doesn't drain into it. The property owner between my home and that drain has a tree root going thru the easement above ground stopping all surface water flow that could exist as well. That means the back yard is unable to be mowed, and used for over half the summer season. Tom, 1 43