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To Thc Council Members of The City of Ramsey 8t27/~6 My Name is Catherine Diekenson and my family owns the property located on Sunfish lake Bvld next to Mate Precision Tooling that the council voted at the lasl meeting to initiate condemnation proceedings against. Since this proceeding has come to our attention, we have been talking with Ryan Schoreder regarding this issue, however we t~lt that we should get our position on record before you. We have been a member of the Ramsey Business Community for over 20 years. Our property there has provided a good living for my family as well as several other families who are also residents of Ramsey. Our business consists of the buying,, selling, repairing and storage of many types of equipment and vehicles as well as other projects. We had no idea that there was this controversy regarding our property. We do have a sign out front that says "Property For sale With Lease Back" in an attempt to find some financing however we had r~o immediate plans to relocate. We did also speak with Mr. Jack Schneider from Mate aprox 6 months ago to make him aware that we were interested in exploring the possibility of a sale but we never heard back from him. We al, so received a few calls from Kent Carlson regarding the property but he did not represent himself as having anything to do w/th Mate or the city and we did r~ot take him as a serious buyer. The point being, we were completely caught offgaurd when we saw the playback of the last council meeting and discovered that this action had been taken as we had received no notice from the city that we were on the agenda. Since that time ! have had several conversations with the parties involved being Mate, Ryan Compan/.es and with Ryan Schroeder to assure everyone that it is not our intention to hold up this project. We do want to be cooperative and we only ask that we be treated fairly. However, we have no desire to spend any money or to go into debt in order to accomplish this, I did meet with Mr. Schroeder on Monday to ask some questions such as could we relocate to a property belonging to my family on Highway 107 Are there any other properties available in Ramsey that would be suitable to our needs or do we need to look elsewhere? Mr. Sehroeder is currently in the process of researching those answers for us and in fact did phone today with some information. To sum th/s all up, we simply wanted to let you all 'know that we are attempting to cooperate wi. th you and with Mate. As soon as we can get the answers as to what it is going to entail for us to be able to move, we will be more than happy to begin negotiations.