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Dear Honorable Mayor and City Council Members of The City of Ramsey, <br />This email concerns the potential re- naming of Azurite Street NW in The City of Ramsey, the street our business is <br />located on. <br />A letter was mailed to us from The City of Ramsey, stating that a name change was being considered for a portion <br />of Azurite Street NW, but not the portion we are located on. Then we received another letter stating that The City <br />is now considering re- naming the part of Azurite Street NW where we are located. <br />Changing the street name would put an extreme hardship onto our company. <br />We manufacture and market a large number of small products in the U.S. and Canada. Our address would need to <br />be changed on packaging of over one hundred fifty products, and large numbers of other printed material. There <br />would be major costs from our packaging vendors and for internal costs to implement the changes. <br />We estimate the costs would exceed $50,000 in tangible costs. That does not include the intangible costs. <br />We have over 340 vendors who sell us supplies or services. We have commercial customers with approximately <br />6,400 ship -to addresses, who we sell products to. <br />When we moved to this building in January of 2006, we hoped we would never have to move again or deal with <br />another address change. Dealing with the address change was extremely costly and challenging in many ways. We <br />had to change our address on all of our packaging, other printed material, in various electronic places, legal and <br />government forms, and send out repeated notifications to customers and vendors. <br />After five years at this address, we seem to be finally coming towards having our new address well communicated <br />to the businesses and people we deal with. <br />When we heard The City was considering changing our address, it was a totally unexpected blow. We thought <br />address changes were in our past. <br />Besides the hardship on our company, in looking at the map of Ramsey, it appears that the North / South section <br />of Azurite Street NW that we are located on makes sense. It is a North / South Segment that appears to fall in line <br />with parts farther to the North. We know it is common for a street to change its name when it changes from North <br />/ South to East / West as suggested in your first letter. <br />Re- locating into the City of Ramsey has been a good thing for our company. We would have no objection to re- <br />naming the portion of the street that goes East / West, but sincerely hope you will not change the name of the <br />North / South portion, where we are located. <br />Respectfully, <br />John Burgeson (Pres) <br />Mike Griffith (General Manager and resident of Ramsey) <br />Building location: <br />L.H. Road, LLC and Wildlife Research Center, inc. <br />14485 Azurite Street NW <br />Ramsey, MN 55303 <br />Phone 763 - 427 -3350 <br />Email: jburgeson @wildlife.com <br />