Agenda - Council - 09/08/1987 - Closed Executive Session and Special Meeting

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Patrick Ka~nne dy 7231 151st Ave ~ Ramsey, MN 55303 August 29, 1987 Ramsey Municipal Center 15153 Nowthen Blvd. NW Ramsey~ ~{ 55303 Dear Mayor Gary Reimann, After reading your response to the last Airport meeting in the Anoka Union, August 28~ 1987. Your statement, "I thought the ~eople ~ew what was goi~ on~ were informed~ and satisfied" is preposterous! From the onset of this Airport Expansion issue~ i've met with neighborhood residents who expressed their opposition views, I've written the council letters expressing my own personal views, I've met with Mr. Don Greenberg, one-on-one to tell him and to let the Airport Council be aware, that the residents of this area find this proposal totall~ un-exceptable. I've met and talked with Councilman Arnie Cox, stating our views and I told him we would t~ke legal action and petition a refer- endum election if all else failed. Most of all I emphasized that we are mainly opposed to the Airport Location, ~nd not neccesarily the Airport, although every- one also wonders why this city needs to get into the Airport business. The very nature of each Airport Council meeting was the people of Ramsey, Residents and Business' in the designated Zone, stating: "We do~t want it, in any shape or form", and the Airport Council and their consults~ts continually tried to cram it down our throats and put a band-aid on each and every valid objection, as though there is even a ground here for negotiation. You furthur state ~'That thing (the ol~u~) was moving along just like it should" is also preposerous, k~nat Planet were you on? if you honestly didn't ~auow what was going on, should you be representing the people of this ~'~v~ ~ .~ ~nd if you did in fact k~now how the people feel, than sir are you being very honest? I am of course, available to discuss the issues with you. Sincerelly, P.S. I'm confident with the issue being decided by ~ election, as it should have been before as much money ~d time were ill spent on this ill-fated mis-represented end mis-appropriated venture. Th~uk God, and Arnie Cox, that we are now on the proper course. Also~ This Landfill business m~ght also be m~ issue for the people to decide, or does history repeat, and nothing is learned.