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Diamonds they came to the City with the site plans and they received approval and then after <br />construction began they were then made aware of the requirement to construct ponding and <br />drainage on their site to accommodate back to back 100 year floods. In order for them to <br />continue with construction they had to construct the ponding and the necessary work was done <br />and approved. A topographical map was completed and used by the governing boards to <br />determine that the ponding and drainage would accommodate the major floods without leaving <br />the premises. There were thousands of dollars charged to them to do the work after the financing <br />was completed. Mr. Boushek stated that the confusion now is that they are being required to pay <br />a management fee on something that they spent thousands of dollars on when it is something <br />they are already taking care of. He stated that they were at a point that if they didn't pay the <br />utility, their power would be shut off so they paid the bill and scheduled an appointment to meet <br />with the City Engineer. When Gary Gruber came in to meet with the City Engineer it was his <br />understanding that if they could show the drawing of topographical land use it would be <br />sufficient enough for them to receive a credit, but the City Engineer told Mr. Gruber that he did <br />not have the time to look at the prints and if they wanted to receive the credit they would need to <br />hire an engineer to calculate the numbers for them. They had to pay $600 to get those figures. <br /> <br />City Administrator Norman stated that he would prefer to give a full report on the issue when all <br />parties involved are present. <br /> <br />Councilmember Connolly stated that she was under the impression that if a business came in <br />with the blueprints they would be able to receive a credit if it met the criteria. <br /> <br />City Engineer Jankowski stated that when the site was designed it was designed by Clark <br />Engineering and they have all the information in the computer system. For the City Engineers to <br />sit down and determine the volume it would take them a lot longer than it would take Clark <br />Engineering. <br /> <br />Councihnember Hendriksen stated that he has listened to Diamonds side of the story and thinks <br />that it is compelling. He stated that in his meeting with Diamonds he came away with two points <br />and would have expected the information to be on the blue print and is hearing that the <br />information to fill out the credit application is not on the print and if they are going to approve <br />that building and say it has sufficient ponding how can they make that statement, but not say that <br />it meets the credit criteria for on-site ponding. He stated that he understands that some things <br />should be intuitively obvious and, given Diamonds circumstances, the answer would have been <br />easily obtained. If there is a pond with no engineering document and the size is in dispute then <br />he can see spending the money, but in this situation he was surprised that that step was <br />necessary. Secondly was the recollection of the discussion regarding the modified method. <br />Originally Diamonds was included in that discussion because a good portion of the property is <br />ball fields. Also in the ordinance, there is a 20-acre minimum requirement and the Diamonds <br />property is less than 20 acres so actually smaller properties with similar amount of impervious <br />surface area paying far less. <br /> <br />City Council/October 24, 2000 <br /> Page 19 of 31 <br /> <br /> <br />