Why Does the City Continue to Call Mark Statz Our City Engineer?

Why indeed, when he works for Bonestroo? He is a hired consultant for this company and IS NOT a paid employee of Centerville. Why in 2006 did we pay $480,000 for engineering costs...
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October 22, 2008
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Statz is referred to as a Staff Member which is incorrect.
Where do his loyalties lie? With Bonestroo or the City of Centerville? The other City's he works with call him out as a paid Bonestroo employee. Why doesn't Centerville? Why do we pay almost $100,000 for a City Administrator who overlooks such pertinent information?
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US Home Construction Sinks to New Record Low

Construction of homes falls to lowest on records dating to 1959 as builders cut back.

Construction of new homes plunged last month to the lowest level on records going back nearly 50 years as U.S. builders slashed production while Wall Street nosedived.

Embattled homebuilders, who enjoyed a five-year boom, are now building new homes and apartments at a record-low pace, according to government data released Wednesday. New building permits, a barometer of future activity, also plummeted to the lowest pace on record.

The results were the lowest on government records dating back to January 1959. Previously, the slowest pace had been in January 1991, when the country was in recession and going through a similar housing correction. Analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters had expected construction to fall even further to a rate of 780,000 units

Wachovia Corp. economist Adam York forecasts that construction will fall to around 650,000 units by next summer. While that's going to be painful for the nation's homebuilders, it will help stabilize the overall U.S. housing market, he said.

"The broader housing market needs fewer homes," York said in an interview. "We built too many homes in the United States and building less is one way to work off the excess inventory."

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Yet our Merry Band of Leaders have vowed to carry on with the Centerville downtown redevelopment...

Photo above is another vacancy in Circle Pines owned by the Beard Group.