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Nov -03 -99 09:19A Mortgage Works inc November 3, 1999 651 426 3888 Joel Hanson, City Administrator, Mayor Fahey and City Council Members In Regard; The notice proposing the lowering of interest rate ot'certain municipal deferred assessments. Dear Mr. Hanson, Mayor Fahey and City Council Members; We feel we do not owe the money for the deferred assessments on our property. These assessments should have been paid when our property was sub -dived in 1985. We received a letter from the City of Little Canada on June 1, 1999 advising us we owed $1,464 in assessments. It also said that the money was due when the property was sold or divided. Our property had been divided in 1985. We were under the impression that the assessments had been paid up at that time. We never heard anything from the City until June 1, 1999 advising us that they had not been paid. There also were other assessments on the property that we had assumed were to be paid at that time. However, we do not know for sure if they had to be paid if the land was sub- divided. We paid these assessments as a part of our taxes. We had an agreement with R.F.L. Enterprises, Larry Lee, that all costs associated with the development of the property would be paid by them. The assessments should have been paid at that time as they were suppose to be paid if the property was sold or transferred or sub - divided. We sold some property and sub - divided some property. We checked with the tide company that handled the transaction. They can find no records of this, after 14, years. They found some old records regarding the dividing of the Abstract property which would have been the old Zoch term property but could find no record of dividing the Torrens property which would have been ours. This all took place at one time as Larry Lee traded some property to us and we traded some property to him and also sold him some property. Mr. David B. Ericson of Commonwealth Title formerly, Title Services Inc. did say that if they had handled the transaction they would have checked with the City to see if there were any outstanding assessments that had to be paid. Wo contacted the attorney who had handled the sub - division for us. He said that R.F.L was responsible for all costs involved with the sub - division of our property and he could not believe the City of Little Canada had okayed the sub - division when there were outstanding, unpaid, assessments. Another condition of the sale and sub - division of this property was that R.F.L. would put a fence on the west side of our property, that was never done, In 1986 when Larry Lee requested a conditional use permit to relocate a house to Yorkton Ridge the fence he had promised us still was not installed. Ms. Nardini of the City Council made the following recommendation; Page 90 P.02