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'" ... -2- .. . Another part of our plan would be to improve our entrance with a conc:t~teJ'slab with cUrbs attached. Drainage and a treated-timber retaining wall would be provided to prevent sand from covering the slab and the street. This treated timber retaining wall is made up of our own product and is used through- out the cities by landscape architects as the stronger and more appealing wall, so you see again, this indicates the direction that we are taking in improving our image. What about our office? Councilman Werdouschegg had an excellent suggestion of, rather than moving our office onto 5th Avenue, that it would serve the same purpose to move it to 1st Street. However, although this idea is excellent and so is the general council's idea to move our office onto the street, we run into a major snag. Unlike our neighbor, "Bell Lumber and Pole", our head office is in Milwaukee and at this time it is impossible to for see when it would be moved up here or even if it ever will be. Who knows? So the question becomes one of whether or not it is justifiable cost-wise. and operationally-wise to move our present "working office" to another location. Due to the fact that we have our production.plants, our equipment. shop, our lunch room, our laboratory and our boiler house all in one centrally located location, it appears, from our standpoint, that to move our office would constitute quite a headache, operationallyunfeasable and overly costly. In this day and age of high costs, lower productivity, foreign competition, what have you, it becomes harder and harder to justify another added cost especially as our main bread winner "poles" has been a poor market for the last two years. We hope that you can understand a willihgn~ss on our part to stand behind your position of improving our mutual image, yet not become too overly disappointed by our inability to completely conform to your proposals. However', we would like to assure you that if and when the,situation arose whereby we could move the office, that we would and that the situation could change in ten years time. Please note our willingness to reach an understanding with you in regards to this situation and also the direction that we as a company are striving towards. Whenever and wherever we make an improvement we want to do so in a manner that improves our image. We hope that you understand that we are certainly trying and in time we hope that you will appreciate our efforts, as well as us appreciating yours, in trying to improve the City of New Brighton. The MacGillis & Gibbs Co. Mr. Robert Norgard~. \ vd Ie :~~t.'.>,' ~~:ei;:~~=;::t ~! .7 · · .. Mr. Harold I. Bumby JI<F/Z-~.~K~_ Regional Sales M~ager New Brighton, Mn. ~