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Femrite, Justin From: Jason Bailey <Jason.Bailey@carleyfoundry.com> Sent: Monday, May 11, 2020 3:17 PM To: Femrite, Justin Cc: Birdsall, Don; 'L BAILEY' Subject: [EXTERNAL] Windsor Park third edition invite to board meeting? Hello Justin. We appreciate the opportunity to have dialogue with you and the City Council. I ( Jason Bailey ) am an Elk River resident within the Windsor Park III development. We are a development of 88 homes. Our development has a communal septic system where each home has their own solids tank and the shared portion is a few collection tanks, a sand filter, Pumps, valves, a control building, and then finally 4 drain fields. Our system is very similar to our adjacent neighboring communities. Our neighborhood starting developing in 2002 and filled to near capacity 3-4 years thereafter. I don't think that anyone in these neighborhoods realized at the time of purchase that a large scale rehab of these systems and leading up to full scale replacement would need to happen inside of 20 years of full scale operation. We like (all? ) or many of the HOA's have experienced citations of sorts / corrective actions from the MPCA due to systems that are losing their functionality and as a result are unable to meet thresholds set by the MPCA. At some point in the very near future each of the communities will need to spend big. Whether they have the reserves to do so is iffy. We do not. On a side note, programs that are available to public entities to help finance these needs are not available for the privately owned infrastructure inside of these communities. We need to act soon in Windsor III. We at Windsor III funded the Bolton and Mink feasibility survey in the past 6 months in order to have consideration for a City Hook-up with the new Great Norther Trail line. What took us by surprise in the report was that the burden was to be 100% shouldered by the Windsor III community. This line is coming from the Dump North of us and goes within 2.5 miles of us. After viewing the feasibility study, I went on a quest to further my personal knowledge. This led me to Brainerd for a meeting with the MPCA where I became aware of the lack of transparency that exists with permitted waste disposal such as ours with our City. With this being said, I wanted to bridge that gap of knowledge if needed and provide a few requests as stated below. Option #1. A planned hook up for City Sewer that could be a joint venture of assed expense for the local Neighborhoods. I would suggest a meeting with the neighborhoods to discuss the following: o Timing may be on our side as the None of the neighborhoods have done a full scale rehab at this time. o Timing would not have to be immediate if the City would allow for a 10 year plan to fill out the new infrastructure. o A planned event or option would allow for economical spending for the HOA's versus an HOA upgrade that is followed up by an untimely City Assessment shortly thereafter. Option #2. A method for individual City assessments for all members within a neighborhood for a rebuild of private infrastructure. o Option 2 has never been within grasp at Windsor III for trying to privately cultivate the funds on our own to continue with a private system. Current economic conditions only solidify this. o There was to be a workshop of similar nature at City Hall that had to be called off for a similar subject 6 weeks or so ago. • Open discussion. Thank You, Jason P. Bailey Windsor Park III (763) 439-3009