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347 depth study of exactly who would be responsible for that drainage, and con- cluded that the ultimate responsibility was the developers, and perhaps some of the responsibility was that of the lower court homeowners because they were the people truly benefitted by any drainage system that should be put in. The Association invited by letter to all Gloria Court homeowners and to the developer to meet and discuss and resolve this issue before the heavy winter storms. They virtually received no response for months; but Mr. Stansell and a Mr. Mendicino ultimately responded and agreed to talk but that was the only response they got. The Association has always invited the lower homeowner people to come on with whatever people they want, experts or otherwise, to take a look at the situation and see if any drainage facilities need to be put in to protect their properties and have implied and probably expressed a will- ingness to grant the appropriate easements for no consideration to come in and take care of those problems. Unfortunately nothing got resolved, there was a heavy rain, and it is an unfortunate situation that Mr. Stansell finds himself in. The developer in this process has essentially taken the position of non- responsibility. He felt it unfortunate that innocent homeowners, and now the City Council, is involved in a situation, in his opinion, that should have been taken care of by the developer some years ago. Mayor Mercer asked Mr. Elliott to comment on the estimate of $5,000.00 to complete the necessary work to resolve the problem. Mr. Elliott stated this is a rough estimate; it could go as much as $2,000.00 higher but he doubted it. This would be done by a contractor, not City crews. Councilmember Brandes asked Mr. Elliott if he felt the engineering deci- sions made are what need to be done to resolve the problem. Mr. Elliott re- plied he felt they were proper and adequate. Mr. Smith asked Mr. Elliott his opinion of the V-ditch does something need to be done with that; the report seems to add three more thoughts and the V-ditch was not really addressed. What needs to be done with it. Mr. Elliott replied it just needs to be cleaned out. Mr. Smith stated they have received several reports over the years that it is failing and it is not serving any real purpose, and one of their concerns is who will be responsible for replac- ing that, perhaps even relocating it. They wanted to be sure they were in line with what the City wanted in getting this issue remedied. Mr. Elliott stated he felt the V-ditch, if it is cleaned out and kept maintained that it will have some purpose to the overall drainage system along with the other facilities that are being recommended. Councilmember Mohr asked a question regarding the homeowners association, the staff report pointed out that the original intent had been for the lower part to have its own homeowners association or more probably be part of one entire association; has the Homeowners group talked about annexing the lower part into their association. Mr. Smith advised they have not discussed this. He stated he is not privy to that information on the intent itself other than the face of the PUD. Councilmember Brandes stated he has a question for Mr. Elliott: The City is faced with a particular problem now but there is the requirement in the PUD that from time to time a study be done, it seems to him that the City needs to find a proper way to resolve this as this might not be the last time there is difficulty between these two properties, and he did not think by the engineer- ing report that this is for all time going to solve all problems. With the problem as it now exists the solutions proposed are appropriate. Mr. Elliott .__ - 6 - ~.-6-87