Minutes - Council - 04/08/1975 - Special Meetings (3)

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-2- fact to Mr. Russell and he was aware of it and agreed to put $3,000 of Class V on these roads. The Township had completely covered the older roads before this with Class V at Township cost, in this de- velopment. Some of the newer roads were not ditched, had no cul- verts, etc. We had indicated we would go ahead and permit our equipment to go over there and put the Class V on these roads. If Mr. Russell puts Class V on these roads, I would be willing to send our equipment over to blade out this Class V some time this summer. It costs a lot more money to assess this cost back to the property. The County Attorney advises us we would not have any right to spend any money over there in view of the fact that this area is in And- over City. We could, by an agreement with Andover, send our equip- ment over there. Mr. Reimann told Mr. Russell that when he built this development, he had the responsibility to build the roads there. Mrs. Oliphant asked Mr. Russell if he was going to fix these roads. Mr. Russell replied that his attorney had advised him not to do it. Mrs. Oliphant asked him why he didn't go thru with his agreement with the Township. Mr. Russell said he had gone to see his attorney. Mrs. Oliphant asked Mr. Russell if he was a man of his word. Mr. Russell replied he hadn't had time to talk to his attorney. Mr. Russell said he had been under duress when he had made the agree- ment. Mr. Babcock asked him what kind of duress. Mr. Reimann said the duress was from the people he had sold the lots to. Mr. Bab- cock said Mr. Russell was trying to turn this situation around in an effort to get out of doing what he had agreed to do. Mr. Schneider asked Mr. Russell how he would feel if they fixed the roads and then assessed it back to the property owners. Mr. Russell said he still owned half a dozen lots. Mr. Russell thinks it would be fair to have these roads fixed and assessed back to the property owners. $3~,000 still will not bring the roads up to standard at present day prices. Mrs. Oliphant asked if Mr. Russell would put up the $3,000 and Andover pay the difference and then assess it back to the pro- perty. Mr. Russell said he wanted to see his attorney. The pres- sure Mr. Russell is under is from the people who live on these roads and who are complaining about the condition of the roads. Mr. Rither feels Andover is sort of an innocent bystander here. He said it does come under the jurisdiction of Andover now. They still want to get the problem resolved satisfactorily. Mr. Rither asked Mrs. Oliphant if she didn't feel that in order to have friendly re- lations between Andover and Ramsey that Ramsey should bring these roads up to standard. Mrs.Oliphant said we could make a contract in writing with the two cities. Mr. Cox stated that Ramsey was concerned or they would not'have brought the matter up with Andover when we were over there for the meeting or even be here tonite. Mrs. Oliphant said the responsibil-