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~.v Page 3 Council Minutes November 9, 1994 said the city has a policy of allowing residents to choose their own garbage hauler and, given this, it is important that the city not get involved in organizing residents around one hauler. However, information about haulers would be given residents so they can organize themselves on a block-by-block basis. Hoyt also said the current assessment policy is 100% of the cost of reconstruction or about $25 per front foot for alley reconstruction. Council desires to keep the total property assessments in the Northome area similar to total assessments for pavement work in other areas. The 1993 street assessment in the Falcon Woods area was $24.00 per front foot resulting in a typical assessment amount of $2400 per lot. Maurer recommended that 90% of the cost be assessed to the homeowners and the city fund the other 10%. Engineer Maurer explained that lots in the Northome area are typically 50 ft. wide but have frontage on both an alley and the street. This would break down to $22 per foot or $1100 fora 50 ft. lot and would keep the total assessment to property owners consistent with other street work. Councilmember Hustad asked why they would not be assessed at 60/40, the same as the 1993 street improvement project. Mayor Baldwin said that alleys are different in the way they are assessed because they are not considered to benefit the general public but only by the people who live there. Gehrz moved to amend the current assessment policy to show the 1995 alley reconstruction project be assessed at 90% to homeowners and 10% to the city. Motion carried unanimously. CONSIDERATION OF RESOLUTION NO. R-94-25, AMENDING THE CITY'S FEE SCHEDULE WITH RESPECT TO TOBACCO LICENSING FEES In August of this year, council passed new policies concerning penalties for vendors that sell tobacco products to minors. As a part of these policies, the city's contracted police department will conduct three compliance checks per year of all tobacco vendors in the city. To cover the costs associated with licensing and compliance checks, staff proposed raising the tobacco license fee to $250 per year. This was inadvertently left out of the final ordinance changes that were made in August and need to be formally approved via resolution. Jacobs requested that these compliance checks be monitored and then moved to approve resolution R-94-25 raising the annual tobacco vendor license fee from $40 per year to $250 per year effective with the 1995 calendar year. Motion carried unanimously.