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Addendum to 11/4/96 City Council Minutes- Item 7. - Other Business 11/4/96 Excerpt of Council Minutes Regarding Council Member Scheel Issue Well, I am not going to make anybody happy but me, I hope. We have a water abatement problem in our neighborhood and since we do pay our dues for water abatement, then I think that we should maybe get some of our money back. The problem is dozens of beavers who have dammed up our ditch. Judicial Ditch #1, which has been abandoned by the county and it has never been taken over by the City, but it has grown up into a big boy and now it is Trott Brook instead of Ditch #1, but we have regularly been going out raking dams and tracking beaver. Mr. Brody got 7 in one day this week. We got to have something done to get rid of these. There are just vailes ancl miles of land that are flooded. I know that on Scott Schultz's farm there are some. I have talked to Mike McMulroy in St. Cloud, I have talked to Gary Phill in St. Paul, I talked to Bea Ramstad in St. Paul, I talked to Steve Rholf, I talked to Sherburne County, yes I talked to about everybody. I have been told to do it yourself flit is on your property. You can kill them ffthey are on your property, ff they are on the farm next door and they don't want their beavers shot or trapped then you leave those there and they will come over later and build a dam. I mean it's just stupid, you are damned if you do and you are damned ffyou don't. I do know how to solve part of the problem, and because we don't have any snow and it's too late to cut the grass maybe the park department or the street department can help us. We have got to get rid of the material. A beaver builds the lodge but the lodge is not where the dam is and when you pull the dam out all they do is come out and fix the dam. We have got to get rid of the lodges and I don't know how we can do that, but ff we can get rid of the dams, ff we pull the dams, and ff somebody can come and cut the brush along the edge of the creeks, we can't touch it, we can't do anything, people like Bodys and Toths and Gruys and all those north of us are just getting flooded out. Now if we can mow the dams it would be great, but ff somebody would just go in there and get rid of the trees, get rid of the brush along the edge of the creek; move it back far enough so the beaver can't push it into the creek and build another dam. So, I would appreciate using some of the money that we --- I mean it is a water abatement problem to those people who are being flooded out and I realize that we will probably have to chip in too. Anybody can get rid of these things with the permission of the land owners. North of there, behind Scott Schultz, is the girl scout land and you don't kill flies on the girl scout land. So these