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Page 1 of2 Margaret Driscoll From: Dick Lee [dlee@h-ym.com] Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2007 9:48 PM To: *RVCouncil Subject: Monday Meeting Regarding Ski Jump C)r?O seJ Thank you in advance for reading this - at Monday's council meeting, I plan to raise objections to the ski buoys and especially the ski jump. I have lived on Lake Owasso for fourteen years. I'm on the lake fishing many early mornings and evenings, and my wife is out on her pontoon boat frequently during the day. Neither one of us has ever seen the ski jump used. Nor, for that matter, have our many, many friends and neighbors who live on the Roseville side of the lake. The dilapidated jump is an eyesore, a navigation impediment on a busy lake and an impediment to fishing one of the best cabbage weed pods in the lake. But more importantly, the water skiing group on Lake Owasso is pulling out the jump year after year to make sure that it's "grandfathered in," in case someone wants to use it in the future. Placing a large, unused impediment on the lake is an unfair imposition on lake users as a whole. In response to these concerns, I would propose that permission to place the ski jump this year be contingent on solid proof that It was used last year. Further, and I respect that this topic may be "out of bounds" for tomorrow's meeting, I would like to formally request that the City of Roseville assume direct responsibility for determining what weed killing toxins get dumped into Lake Owasso. The "Lake Owasso Association" is, in fact, the water skiing contingent. In keeping with its makeup, this "association" has disseminated misinformation regarding the threat from weeds to the watershed-to the point of ignoring and even contradicting DNR input. I believe that it would be appropriate and responsible for the City Council to ask for DNR input directly, and to decide whether and how to treat the lake based on mixed use parameters. The "association" would like to institute a "scorched bottom" policy; however, that would destroy the fishing in the lake, which is already compromised by the amount of chemicals dumped into it. In response to these concerns, I would propose that the City Council no longer allow a self- Interested group to decide for all lake dwellers how defoliants are used-nor to be awarded the privilege of communicating and Interpreting to all concerned citizens the pros and cons of high volume defoliant use-and that the City Council assume direct responslblllty In this matter. I will be respectful of your time and agenda Monday, but I hope that you will take these concerns seriously. Regards, Dick Lee 4/23/2007