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• • the City surveying, not the property owners. And it's time consuming tv personnel, and it's the age old question of where do you put your City personnel? What do you have them doing on that day's work? Just given enough money, you can remove - you know and if you made the policy decision to do so, you can remove all the obstructions in town. So that just been the you know, the policy, that this City and most others have, you know, followed over the years. Mr. Matuszak: On that regard - excuse, me, Norman. I'd certainly like to approach it and set a policy one way or another. I think it would warrant this. Mr. Askins: I think the Mayor's suggestion of having a workshop and what the staff needs to hear from the Council is your policy decision of how much time and energy, which is money - tax payer money - that you want them to spend on this problem and to what extent. Are you going to do it like the weed ordinance, where it's on a complaint basis only? Where are you going to draw the line? The law is with you, totally and very strongly. It's just up to Council. Mayor Cline: Councilman Malone, did you have something? Mr. Malone: Well, in 1965, about 20 years ago, Mr. Counts surveyed this property? Mr. Wester- gren: Yes, sir. Mr. Counts did survey the property. I went through some extensive measurements down there and invited several of you all to accompany me on those measurements. The survey stakes, one which is on a direct corner. I used another survey stake on the next property line as an eyeball guide to make a mark in the road, and from that mark in the road I measured two other fences, and two other stakes, and they all followed the plat within inches, and this was over a distance of 310 feet in one direction. Mr. Malone: Well, when Mr. Counts surveyed it, did he put a permanent stake or a marker there? •