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<br />These changes should make the assessment process smoother and easier to apply to each street. There <br />are seven streets remaining in the City that have not been fully reconstructed to an urban standard (curb <br />and gutter, storm sewer, etc.). Once those streets have been reconstructed the City will be completing <br />only rehabilitations of streets for the foreseeable future. There may be some exceptions that will require <br />a full reconstruction for some reason, but generally, all streets will have been upgraded to urban <br />standards. <br />Another topic that may be added to the policy would be to include a section on irrigation and other items <br />in the right-of-way. In the past, the City has had the street contractor or an irrigation contractor handle <br />irrigation repairs or other repairs to items in the right-of-way such as invisible fencing or landscaping. <br />There generally haven’t been very many issues over the years, and the private irrigation systems that we <br />have encountered have not been overly expensive to address. However, last year, the Pitrina Park <br />association’s irrigation repair cost $28,000. Staff is recommending that the assessment policy include <br />language that makes property owners responsible for private improvements that are located in a public <br />right-of-way. If the Council agrees, staff can address this in the assessment policy or create a new <br />standalone policy to cover right-of-way issues during public street projects. <br />