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MUNICIPAL ORDINANCE CODIFIERS, INC. !.11��l11T! IN cN.wTT M I,l v�lION •NU OwO,N.NCI COO191C AT ON [.CI U41Y(I T WON MINNEIOTA• OOYlwNYTNT.I UNIT! Ms. Jeanne A. Mabusth Zoning Administrator City of Orono Box 66 Crystal B"y, MN 55323 Dear Jeanne: ,� to k'ITY OF ORONO 7400 Tyndale Avenue South Minneapolis. Minnesota 55423 Area Code 61) 869-1403 February 11, 1985 We received from your office a copy of Ordinan--e No. 9, 2nd Series, with a request that we prep• a the substitute pages for printing and insertion in your Code. We always contact a city approximately one year after the cffective date of a new Cod(--, but this called our immediate attention to maintenance of the Orono Code so I contacted City Attorney Tom Radio by phone who suggested that I call you directly, which I did last Friday. In our cor sation you said that mainter,anr of the Code was an immedi, but unresolved problem for you. You said that you had been considering requesting a price of us for the purchase of our word processing discs. You are certainly welcome to them for the current price of new discs, and no more. However, even at that price, they will, in our opinion, be of little value to you. While Code revision is frequently used by equipment- salespersons as an inducement to buy, the mechanics of printing replace ^;tt pages is the least expensive step in true Code maintenar Our firm maintains many Codes for cities all over the Stag_, we do not keep ac . ,e discs. Please permit us to review some -ters of greater importance. Our contract with the City provides for assistance with your first amending ordinances so that they can be easily inserted in the Code. We covered this with the persons present at the con- ferences but, unfortunately, they are no longer with the City. We share your concern for good maintenance. Without it the original work deteriorates and ultimately requires recodifica- tion. You have had one such experience which need not Le repeated. Your Code has been in effect less tran one yezr and we surely do not imply that it is in trouble already -- res_ assured it is not. However, we suggest that now is the time to ,Ian your maintenance program. Accordingly, we will review some options open to you.