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From: Lori Bartlett
Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 4:20 PM
To: Jean
Subject: FW: Graceview Estates Planning Commission vs City AttorneyLetters/documents
lean,
Please see the email below. This is an email that should be printed for the planning commission meeting relating to
Graceview. (Cynthia is having trouble sending to your email address).
Thank you,
Lo`rv Bas~Lie~t
Finance Director
City of St Joseph
0-320-363-7201
t-320-363-0342
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www. cit~ofsti~enh. com
From: Cynthia Smith-Strack MDG, Inc. [mailto:cstrack@municipaldevelopmentgroup.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 4:13 PM
To: 1231t1c@charter.net
Cc: alanrassier@yahoo.com; kkalinewski@csbsju.edu; Jean; Lori Bartlett
Subject: Graceview Estates Planning Commission vs City AttorneyLetters/documents
Greetings Brad,
I'm responding to development related items while Judy Weyrens is on vacation. First, thank you for sharing
your opinions. I will ask City staff (Jean) to retain a copy of your email with opinions for our records and for
distribution with the next Planning Commission information packet.
As for your question: The City is insured through the League of Minnesota Cities Insurance Trust. The City's
Agent is Peter Omann from Omann Insurance in St. Joseph. Street address is 305 Cedar Street, phone number
320.363.7233. I will defer your question regarding payment of premium to Lori Bartlett, Finance Director who
is copied on this email.
By the way, I happened to notice you had an incorrect email address for the Planning Commission Chair. I've
updated it and cc'd her on this email as well.
Cynthia Smith-Strack
Municipal Development Group, Inc.
888-7MDG-INC (toll free)
952-758-7399 (Metro)
888-763-4462 (fax)
25562 Willow Lane
New Prague, MN 56071
www.rnunicipaldevelopmentgroup com
Quoting Judy Weyrens
From: Brad Cobb [mailto:1231t1c@charter.net]
Sent: Wed 10/1/2008 12:59 PM
To: Judy Weyrens
Cc: alanrassier@yahoo.com; kkalinewski@cssju.edu
Subject: Graceview Estates Planning Commission vs City Attorney Letters/documents
Judy,
I heard that you thought all the legal opinions had been addressed. The legal opinions were NOT mentioned
last night by the commission or city representatives nor did the city attorney address them. Our legal
representative mention them in our opening statement but the Planning Commission never mentioned the city
attorneys letter nor did you ask the Planning Commission to consider the City Attorney letters.
In my opinion, I believe the city attorney has spelled out the legal opinions in several briefs but were not full
transmitted, received, or mentioned by the Planning Commission last night.
I also feel that the Planning Committee just wanted to wash their hands of this mess and give it to the city
council to deal with- in fact several of them stated this exact opinion last night on record.
They even admitted that mistakes were made - which is something I have tried to explain to you on several
occasion (I can get you those emails if you like?) that mistakes were made (we are not blaming anyone) but we
have an opportunity to fix those past mistakes but yet the Planning Commission has chosen to over look those
mistakes and continue down this dangerous legal path.
I really think that the city attorney should have spoken up last night to ID the root cause issue rather than say
nothing and let the SUP move forward.
Finally, for public record information purposes who is the city's insurance company, primary contact person,
telephone number, and are the premiums paid to date?
Thank you,
Bradley H. Cobb
President/CEO
Green Corridor Consulting, Inc.
333 4th Ave. S.E.
St. Joseph MN 56374
320.493.4695
1231t1cC~charter.net