Randi Osberg Quotations

What we have done to our existing rental code is we have provided for a rental license.

The only thing that is really different is that inspections are not complaint-based any more. Originally, it was totally complaint-based and no inspection was done unless a complaint was received.

We knew at some point the city would grow to0 big and we would have to move the plant, but we thought we had more time. Now, we might have less than five years.

County commission refused to explore the possibility of a four-way stop at Knapp and Second with the argument that any time you change traffic flow - whether it be a stop or a turn, a light or speed - that it increased danger.

Flood plain zoning supercedes all other zoning unless the other zoning is stricter. Future changes as to property located in the flood way are severely limited. There are also on-going restrictions in the flood-fringe area.

There were conversations going back and forth between the city and the county dating back to the early or mid- 1970s.

If you hold out too little, I suppose somebody could make the claim that you are damaging their shoreline, or their dock properties.

How can you do that without having the dam thoroughly inspected by engineering staff, without having a thorough analysis and education of the staff on what all the rules and regulations are?. It is certainly a responsibility the city should not bear, or bear alone.

The city does not usually annex property. In fact, I can't remember a time since I have been with the city that we have taken this step.

The city can't tax those people outside of their jurisdiction. They can't assess them in a way to recover those costs. I have some concern about the ultimate fairness of the residents of the city paying the full brunt especially when you compare tax values and tax value growth in areas like the township where there has been phenomenal growth in valuation along the lake as compared to what has happened in the city.

The city, as an accommodation to the county and to some degree so that it would be done and done properly, has been using local personnel to raise and lower the dam and to point out major problem to the county and get it fixed.