Mundare to now just tear down old building
After reading about plans to have someone come to Mundare and remove an old building adjacent to the municipal office for its barn boards, a person from Chipman came forward, but balked at removal of any of the garbage from inside the building.
That upset public works director Dave MacDonald.
MacDonald had not been part of the initial discussion for the destruction of the building.
Chief Administrative Officer Colin Zyla said during the June 15 council meeting, the town would have to clean out the building and then the person wanting the wood would come and remove it. The town would then have to clean up the lot.
“What’s the end goal for this,” asked MacDonald. “Is it to have a vacant lot.”
Council agreed that was the end goal, but said they didn’t want to incur any costs.
“Why are you going through so much hassle to take the building down,” asked MacDonald. “You could bring in a piece of equipment in the morning and have it gone and cleaned by afternoon.”
Councillor Irene Talaga said they felt someone could use the barn boards from the structure.
“But I thought whoever was going to do it was going to leave it clean.”
Zyla said the person wanting the wood didn’t have the ability to remove the concrete and brick of the chimney.
“You can’t expect them to remove the concrete,” he said. Zyla further stated the garbage in the building would be hand bombed to a dumpster adjacent to the site..
“But that’s covered in bird and mouse excrement,” said MacDonald. “It’s all junk. Just bring in an excavator with a thumb and make the building go away. It’s quick and easy.”
“What you’re doing is nitpicking with leaving it for someone to come and pick out wood.”
Councillor Frank Rosypal asked MacDonald if he felt it was better to just quickly tear down the building and clean up the lot, and MacDonald said yes.
Mayor Mike Saric said he didn’t think the town would clean out the building when offering the barn boards was originally proposed.
“I’m sorry I’m just against this,” said MacDonald. Saric agreed.
Councillors agreed just taking the wood wasn’t what they planned. They had wanted the entire building removed including cleaning the junk from inside.
Zyla said if council wanted they could change their minds and just tear the building down.
All agreed the building was a hazard.
“I thought they would just take the boards off,” said Saric. “But this seems to be escalating to more than we wanted.”
MacDonald said the town only wanted to get to the value and that was the vacant lot.
He further stated he could get someone in to quickly tear down the building.
“I expect someone could come in and in two hours it would be a lot.”
Zyla said he would contact the person wanting the wood and tell them the town was just going to tear the building down.
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