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Referral of questions from residents, developers, and govern- mental agencies to WCA Involvement with the City's discussion regarding the Wild, Scenic and Recreation River requirements. Other items which were discussed in the work plan and were to have been billed separately were public hearings, and meetings with other public agencies. Those meetings which fall in this category~ should have been billed separately, but were instead included with the regular billings. A third factor has been the length of the planning program.. The proposal with an "estimated" cost was first presented to the City of Ramsey in 1977. The program anticipated that a major portion of the planning program would be completed in 1977 and 1978. Since 1978, our. overhead has increased substantially while the budget has remained at the 1977 "estimated" costs. Prolonging the planning period has increased cost not only because of inflation, but due to additional meetings, phone conversations, etc., that have resulted from the extended planning program. It is not our intention to blame the City of Ramsey for all'the delays, however, WCA feels that there is a shared responsibility here. A fourth factor is that.the proposal that was originally presented to Ramsey, Anoka, and Champlin envisioned that with minor modifications, one documents could serve the needs of all three communities. Because of the variety of geographic and physical conditions, and the divergent values of residents in the respective communities, it has not been possible to share as much of the reports as was originally hoped. For example we started out with one Critical Area Plan for all three communi- ties, but it became necessary to make modifications to fit the local situations and desires. The end result has been three substantially different documents to meet the needs of these three communities. Through October l, 1980, WCA has only billed Ramsey for the amount that was agreed to in the work plan, however, this does not actually reflect the cumulative costs. Since January of 1980, the cost related to the Ramsey project (Critical Area and Comprehensive Plans) has added up to more than $9,000. The actual bills submitted to the City. for this time period total approximately $3,500 (this includes the bill recently sub- mitted for the Park Plan). Therefore, from January l, 1980 our billing has fallen $5,500 short of what should be billed. This $5,500 shortfall also does not include any expenses related to completing the Implementation Section of the Comprehensive Plan. Although WCA does 'not anticipate recovering the entire amount indicated above, we do feel there is the need for some additional compensation to offset these existing losses, and to minimize future losses. Finally, throughout the planning program we have tried to. remain flexible to the desires of the City Staff and Planning Commission. Rather than adhering strictly to the provisions of the work plan we have attempted to incorporate all the concerns into the planning program resulting hopefully in a better product.