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City slapped with court order on house demolition

Phillip Flinchum tries in vain to plead his case to Mason City Council.
Phillip Flinchum tries in vain to plead his case to Mason City Council.

MASON CITY – More developments continue to come to the NIT newsroom regarding a sleazy case where the city has moved aggressively to bulldoze a man’s house.

NIT has learned that Phillip Flinchum and City Hall are now in possession of a court order that sets a hearing on the city’s move to tear down Flinchum’s house at 32 6th Street NE. Earlier today, at 1:30 PM, city officials opened two bids from contractors for the job of demolishing the structures on the property. McKinness Excavating was the low bid at $11,000. City officials indicated that no city council vote will take place to approve the bid, and the demolition would move forward.

Forward, that is, until a court stepped in Friday. NIT will report more on the legal documents as copies are on their way to our newsroom.

In another development in the case, NIT took a call from a Mason City citizen familiar with city building code, and said that the city’s reasoning to tear the house down is based on problems that “dozens, if not hundreds, of other structures in town have.” The former city official told NIT that “if they can knock that house down based on that extremely weak list of issues, they can go after anybody, and we should all be highly concerned.”

In yet another development, NIT was told by another source that the issue with Flinchum’s house got serious when a socially and politically connected neighbor who lives just south of Flinchum, “got in the ear” of certain council members who he does business with at Hy-Vee East. The sources tells NIT that “promises were made. Votes to tear down were guaranteed. The whole thing is sleazy and blowing up in their faces.”

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