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mentioned getting a letter of credit somewhere in the $2000-$3500 range. Now in his last email he is asking for a letter of credit for over $13000, of which I am not able to attain. NOT once during these conversations did Jeremy ever stop me and correct me. He had to have known that the $2000-$3500 I talked about was not even close to what he wanted. If I was NOT going to be allowed to plant 4-6 foot tall trees, and would be required to plant trees from the start the size of the city's code, Jeremy should Have said so. I believe, Jeremy not correcting such obvious mistakes would be the same as him giving me the wrong information to start with. How am I as a Business owner supposed to make good financial decisions without the proper information? In regards to the erosion control plan, the city council stated that we were to work with city staff and tl city staff member on hand at the city council meeting, Rebecca Haug said that some programs were aval'able'~and that sle would work with us to get this done. During the city council meeting we expressed our concerns about the cost of doing this and Rebecca said that we should be able to find a cost effective method. I set up an appointment to meet Rebecca Haug so we could discuss what she wanted me to do to repair the small erosion on my neighbor's site. She did not meet me out there, instead John Anderson from BDM did. He told ine they could not give me advice on how to fix it and that I needed to draw up a plan before they could say if it was acceptable. Then the city sent me a bill for having BDM come out and state he couldn't tell me anything until I drew up a plan. John Anderson said I should just send Rebecca an email with what my plans were. I did. It took a week to get an "I guess they'll work". I went out to do that and as I feared, and stated during the city council meeting, the damage to the surrounding ground started to get severe. I left plans with Rebecca on a new Idea. Storms were coming in that Saturday so I went ahead with them. I called and left a message stating I had done them and wanted her to go out and inspect them on May 17th. Remember at this point I now have my fence tore down and my property vulnerable to gain access to the erosion area, and I have construction equipment sitting on site also. It then took till the first week in June for "Niclci" to go out and she responded with what I did wrong and said additional work would need to be done. Nicki said she would talk to Rebecca and get back to us. I have tried contacting Rebecca and still have not received final word of what I need to do to be done with this. How is it that we are expected to do work to the city staffs satisfaction if they wouldn't tell me what they want? So here we sit June 15th nearly two months after we got approval from the city council still waiting for final word on the erosion control methods used. As it stands right now, nearly two months after city council approval, we cannot get a $13000 letter of credit, we don't have that kind of cash left to spend on trees right away, and we already have over $5000 dollars invested into this project. That $5000 looks to be a complete waste right now because we won't be able to meet the just learned about requirements of the city. We do not aslc for special treatment but fair and timely treatment. If we had been given the information Jeremy just gave us two months ago we probably would have just stopped and not spent $5000 getting our site ready. I believe all of the discussion and decisions at the city council meeting as I understood them are fair and acceptable. I do not believe the city staff has been fair or worked with us to meet the city councils or Midwest Mini-Storage's needs in this manner What we are asking is what can be done to fix this situation and makeup for the failures that put us in this situation in the first place? Thank you for your time, feel free to call with questions Sincerely, Russell Kostreba ~ Midwest Mini-Storage