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' ' Mr. John Hollander July 3, 2002 ' 200 Hollander Road Orono, Minnesota 5391 Mobile Phone: (612)203-5805& (612)203-7226 ' RE: Hollander Residence Limited Structural Evaluation ��`��/ McSherry Group Commission Number 02162 Via: Hand delivered on 7-03-02 (Draft—work in progress) WORK IN PROGRESS ' Dear Mr. Hollander: ' This report contains the written findings of our Limited Structural Engineering Evaluation for the residence located at the address listed above. This evaluation was performed according to our consulting agreement dated May 2, 2002. The primary concern of this evaluation was to address the structurat issues in the City of Orono, Minnesota resolution of the City Council No. 4699. The evaluation was limited to those items and others as addressed within ' this report. The following are the results of our evaluation. Intent of the Evaluation 8 Anticipated Process: ' The primary intent of this evaluation is to respond to the specific items addressed within the resolution relating to the residential structure with the following goals: ' 1. Provide a response to each item listed within the resolution with either a reason why the current item should be acceptable or with a defined fix to the situation. 2. Work with representatives from the City of Orono Building Department to achieve a reasonable approach to resolving the building structure's problems to allow occupancy of the residence again by Mr. Hollander. ' 3. Each listed fix should have enough definition to allow Mr. Hollander to obtain bids to have the required repairs quantified from a cost standpoint. 4. Once the bids are returned, Mr. Hollander will make the decisions required to determine to proceed with the ' required fixes, obtain other approaches to fixing the problems, obtaining additional bids or following other options relating to the building. 5. Once the bids are back and Mr. Hollander decides to go forward with the required repairs, the work may begin on the repairs according to an established relative repair and inspection schedule. This schedule shall ' be established and agreed upon by Mr. Hollander and the City of Orono for the purpose of correcting the problems according to an approved, concise, defined schedule that will define what is to be done and when. The when will be tied to both the relative terms and to actual calendar time. A tentative schedule is included ' at the end of this report. Information Available for Review: tThe following items were used to arrive at our findings: 1. City of Orono resolution of the City Council No. 4699 dated October 8, 2001. ' 2. Site observations made by myself and another employee of MGI on Friday, May 3, 2002. 3. Meeting with the State Historical Society. 4. The Secretary of the Interior's"Standards for Rehabilitation and Guidelines for Rehabilitating Historic Buildings". ' 5. No building drawings were available for our review. �J��S��i 1 WORK IN PROGRESS ' '