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MINUTES CITY COUNCIL FEBRUARY 23, 1994 run. Road are brouqht up to current standards, and once the road meet those standards, the property owners pay for maintaining the standards. The Administrator pointed out that some cities have a policy were once a street is built to urban standards, the property owners do not pay again. This would eventually even out throuqhout a city provided that the city has the means to finance the improvements. Scalze pointed out that the City generally assessed public road improvements at 80% of the cost with 20~ spread over general taxation. Scalze asked if the general population was still getting 20% benefit of a road improvement. Scalze pointed out that Little Canada is not the only City assessing 100% of the cost of street reconstruction. The Administrator agreed, but pointed out that some cities assess nothing for street reconstruction, some cities assess 50% of costs, and some assess 100%. The Administrator again pointed out the deferred maintenance issue with an overlay indicating that the City is saving maintenance dollars. Pedersen asked if an overlay was necessary because the City saved maintenance dollars in the past. The Administrator replied that this could be correct. Scalze asked if it were proposed that the City pay the cost of storm sewer improvement. The Administrator replied that that was correct, and that the storm sewer improvements proposed included some work on culverts, insulating catch basins and replacement of some curbing. Scalze felt Option #1 made the most sense, and that unless fabric was being added to the street, Option #2 did not make sense. The Administrator pointed out that Option #2 would qive the street more strength and a better road section would result, but this did not mean that Option #1 resulted in an inadequate road section. The Administrator suggested that the City give the property 9