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Attorney Bill Faison's call to <br /> Manager July 23, 1985 <br /> Bob Kanoy's experience which is made as a basis for an insurance claim against <br /> the County. <br /> Events by Date: <br /> 1. Perk tests done in 1979. <br /> 2. Property approved for construction by John Gray. <br /> 3. A house was built. <br /> 4. Kanoy moved in 1980. <br /> 5. Final inspection by Vernon Burns <br /> -- July 9, 1980--certification of completion stated "Soil poor, system <br /> not expected to function properly." <br /> 6. The certificate was not shown to the Kanoy's (why not? not required?). <br /> 7. January 1985 <br /> Kanoys received an offer to purchase their bone with closing to be <br /> February 1985. <br /> -- Lender required a septic inspection. <br /> -- Inspection was done by Konsler who said "septic could not be made to <br /> function correctly." <br /> 8. February 19, 1985 <br /> -- Meeting between Mr. Rangy and Tbny Laws. Laws said, (1) the land <br /> should never have been approved and permitted, (2) this was not the <br /> only mistake Mr. Gray had made in approving soil which could absorb <br /> septic waste. <br /> 9. February 26, 1985 <br /> -- Laws told Mrs. Kanoy, "Land should not have been approved." <br /> 10. February 28, 1985 <br /> -- Meeting of Steve Steinbeck of the State, Mr. Laws and several of the <br /> Kanoys' neighbors in which Mr. Stinebeck said, "the property should <br /> not have been approved nor house constructed on the property." <br /> -- Mr. Steinbeck worked with the Kanoys' in referring them to a Mr. <br /> Carleigh for the installation of a mound system designed by the <br /> State. <br /> -- The newly installed system was accepted by the County June 4, 1985. <br /> -- The original purchaser had since backed out of the proposed purchase <br /> in the Spring of 1985 because of the septic system problems. <br /> -- The Kanoy's obtained a second sales contract June 5, 1985, a day <br /> after the mound septic system was approved. , <br /> 11. Alledged damages <br /> -- The Kanoys incurred a cost $6,678 to install the mound system. In <br /> addition they incurred a number of additional bills due to delay in <br /> closing (additional house payments $2,5001; electric bills $39; <br /> phone calls to Mr. Carleigh $8.43; $36 interest on loan to finance <br /> mound; trips to the house $116; lawyers fees <br /> • <br /> TOtal: $9,517 plus lawyer's fees $ <br /> taignamsweammor <br />