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1 58 SPECIAL COUNCIL MEETING April 22, 1985 A Special Meeting of the Lino Lakes City Council was called to order by Councilman Kulaszewicz at 6:00 P.M., April 22, 1985. Council members present: Marier, Bohjanen. Mayor Benson and Councilman Reinert arrived several minutes later. City Administrator, Randy Schumacher; Assessor Margie Roisum and County Assessor Ed Thurston were also present. The purpose of this Special Meeting was to reconvene the Annual Board of Equalization. Mr. Pierre Nadeau of 6644 - 20th Avenue, Mr. Andrew Cardinal of 6657 Centerville Road and Mrs. Helen Rykel of 1926 Birch Street were in the audience. Major Benson explained that the members of the Council did go out into the field and inspect parcels of land belonging to Mr. Car- dinal and Mr. Nadeau as planned on April 15, 1985. Mrs. Roisum supplied to the Council copies of the valuation sheets for nine parcels of property in Lino Lakes. Some of the property _is'owned by other residents in the City. She explained the meaning of each valuation sheet. She also pointed out the parcels on a City map. Mrs. Roisum and members of the Council went through each of the valuation sheets with Mr. Nadeau. Mr. Nadeau had some comments regarding the valuation sheets. He asked where valuation per acre came from (1100, 1250 and 1400 per acre based on the distance from the metro area). He felt it was way out of line. It was explained these figures came from the County. Mr. Nadeau asked; are we assessing ourselves or is the County telling us what to put on these? He did not think the County should be giving this City guidelines. Mrs. Roisum ex- plained that there are not enough sales in Lino Lakes to make any judgements. Mr. Nadeau suggested that all land in Lino Lakes should be valued at the same rate per acre. Mr. Nadeau then noted that the farm land is valued based on whether or not the land is tillable and some is valued by how far it is from the metro area. The same standards are not applied to all lands. Mr. Nadeau questioned the value placed on the wetlands. He felt this was too low. He said the wooded land is valued at the same rate as tillable land. This means that all of Lino Lakes should be re- evaluated. He felt the assessor should be looking at mar- ket value not whether it is green acres, homestead, hardship case, for developing or just for an investment. Mr. Bohjanen asked Mr. Nadeau how he would value wetlands. Mr. Nadeau said by how wet it is. Mayor Benson said what he is trying to determine is if the formula being used is uniformally across all the properties in the area. What he is getting from Mr. Nadeau is that the Council should look at increasing the value of wetlands and Lino Lakes should be looked 1 1 1