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buildings. The waiver should not extend for any new construction as there is considerably more work and more money involved in such structures. 5. Council Policy_ n BigIsland - As noted in the Comprehensive Plan the poicy is that all the land on Rig Island is best in public ownership. All the Councilmembers have expressed a desire to give the Veterans an adequate amount of time to rehabilitate the camp and staff is follo.ring this direction. 6. Secession From Orono - As mentioned at the March discussions on the conditional use permit and again in August the Big Island Board of Governors would like to explore seceding from the City based on their feeling that the City does r►ot either know how, or want to deal with them on what they consider a reasonable basis. It is staff's recommendation that the City not agree to do this voluntarily and should a petition for annexation to another community or s--ession in another manner be proposed that Council determine at that time whether they want to contest such an action. The basis for such a position would be the pivotal role the Big Island properties play environmentally in Lake Minnetonka. 7. Service/Investigations - It was mentioned that the City does not provide any service to the Big Island Board of Governors and it was cited that they had arsons and vandalism for which the City of Orono had not done any follow up investigation. In the case of the vandalism it was reported 4 days in advance of the last meeting. The City did investigate and determined who were the offending parties. Since they were juveniles the disposition of the case went over to the juvenile court. As for the cases of arson the City has investigated each of those and attempted to determine (what is jery difficult in the case of arson) any possible suspects who may have caused such arson. Investigation as to its timeliness, which is critical, has been hampered by the fact that Big Island Board of Governors originally reported the first case of arson to the State Fire Marshal's office, with no contact to the City of Orono with a delay of a month or two to Orono. Secondly, in the case of the possible arson this summer, the City has not received the requested statements from involved parties in a timely fashion. 8. Staff/Board of Governors Relations - It should finally be mentioned that the staff stands willing to discuss problems the Big Island Board of Governors may have with the staff in its operation. To date however, despite Council's invitation the i3ig Island Board of Governors have not availed themselves of this avenue to redress their grievances.