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<br /> Record Staff Writer mg report that sat for+weeps`in a struetion. of!a plaza and fountain f
<br /> box left behind by an outgoing around the 'channel. head. Before
<br /> This evening, -115 downtown admrmstrator. No one knows if that can ha en, "
<br /> commuters will leave their spaces PF the city must
<br /> things would have tarried out dif- test the soil under the lot for haz-
<br /> in front of the Hotel Stockton for ferently had the City Council been ardour materials, City. Manager
<br /> the Iast time. told about safety problems before Dwane Milnes said. A cleanup
<br /> A chain-link fence soon will go now tthat ed othe carlease s a Property but may ben A
<br /> are� on �`�'• more specif .
<br /> up around the sinking parking lot future of the site is clearer.e, the is redevelopment plan must be �e
<br /> a that spans the head of the Deep Soon drafted and :approved. Engineers 4
<br /> Water Channel. The cit will city workers win install a must draw up plans. Contractors
<br /> Y chain-link fence around the lot must be hired. Financing must be
<br /> employ consultants to help'it and past it with signs . found,
<br /> r decide what to do with aproper- warning of
<br /> an unsafe structure. f'
<br /> ty that is two-thirds water and the' month By the end of And all the'while, Stockton tax-
<br /> one-third land. , Parking lot manager Payers will pay $50,000 a year to
<br /> Patrick Smith will close the auto the rope
<br /> The e descen-
<br /> manner in, which the city mobile-repair shop where he has dants of city foundOwnerser thCharles M.
<br /> came to control this Property has worked for 41 years: Weber. Smith twill get $25,000 to w
<br /> ' been thrown into question A plan by the city's waterfront $50,000 of the city's money for
<br /> because of a misplaced engineer- a Revival Task Force calls for con-
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<br /> bers were asked to vote. Pinkerton, could be reached meet anyway.
<br /> The city's Redevelopment Thursday. Councilman Mel Panizzarysaid
<br /> Commission voted unanimously Milnes said he simply told the the report;vindicates"his decision
<br /> in September to recommend facts as he knew them: Krieger's to vote agauist the lease. Panizza,
<br /> f against the deal. The council, temporary replacement, Bob however, said he doesn't think the
<br /> i however, voted 4-3 on Oct. 21 to Sivell, discovered the report while report would have changed the
<br /> lease the site for a minimum ofgoing through papers Krieger had minds of ,the council majority
<br /> three years,with an option to buy left behind. The report, by even if it had been released before
<br /> the property for $625,000. Siegfried Engineering, concluded the vote. 'He said the council
<br /> "In my opinion, before they that pilings and girders under the members had been told repeated- o
<br /> had a purchase agreement on that lot were badly rotted and could ly that the parking lot may be
<br /> property, they should have done not be trusted to support the unsafe.The engineer's report sim-
<br /> g structure. Milnes said he directed ply confirmed that suspicionHe
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<br /> due diligence," said Rede- staff members to examine alter- city
<br /> - velopment Commission member said he had suggested the
<br /> Kathryn Rousek, a commercial natives to prepare a recommen- take code-enforcement action
<br /> real estate broker. "They could dation to the council.
<br /> City Attorney R Tom Harris said against the Webers to close the lot ,.
<br /> have thoroughly investigated that he was told about ire report Nov but that the council decided on a
<br /> before they made any agreement 27 —the day before„ g lei-P�� agreement instead. -
<br /> with the Weber A ma ori of the council was
<br /> Rousek said she's especially — and immediately sched ed a at a ,new-car lot, and it was a
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<br /> uuse Mrines Monaner Lr COan� for the following Monday. mQ3' atathe faetd4yl; Y
<br /> Pty City g Lyn He said the closed session was
<br /> Krieger for the tardy report. She justified because he feared a law- they wanted to buy." ,
<br /> said Krieger was much too pro- suit, should Smith and the park- Councilman Victor Mow, howev-
<br /> fessional to make that oversight. ing-lot tenants refuse to obey er, said he-would have appreciat-
<br /> Krieger left Stockton on Oct. 30 orders to abandon the parking lot. ed an opportunity to consider all
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<br /> She said Thursday that she was warning notices on cars "Whether or not it would have
<br /> not given a copy of the report Wednesday. Smith, without mattered or not, it wasrit there to ,A --
<br /> until after council members protest, agreed to close up shop decide," Mow said. "We never had
<br /> approved the lease agreement. She and leave. He would not discuss the report to make that call as to
<br /> said the report was delivered to terms of his relocation deal with whether it was safe or unsafe:'
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