09-16-25 City Council Meeting Packet

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CITY OF LAKE ELMO NOTICE OF HEARING ON PROPOSED ASSESSMENT STILLWATER AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT UTILITY IMPROVEMENTS Notice is hereby given that the City Council of Lake Elmo will conduct a public hearing on Tuesday October 21, 2025 at, or approximately after, 7:00 P.M. at Lake Elmo City Hall to consider, and possibly adopt, the proposed assessment against abutting properties for the Stillwater Area School District Utility Improvements. Adoption by the Council of the proposed assessment may occur at the hearing. The following describes the proposed improvements and area(s) to be assessed: The project includes improvements to the public sanitary sewer system to accommodate connection to sewer by the new Lake Elmo Elementary School and Oak-Land Middle School, and the extension of municipal water to the Oak-Land Middle School. The area proposed to be assessed for the extension of public water and public sewer includes the new Lake Elmo Elementary School property, the Oak-Land Middle School property, and the property at 11817 10 Street North, Lake Elmo MN 55042. You may at any time prior to certification of the assessment to the county auditor on November 21, 2025, pay the entire assessment on such property to the City Clerk with interest accrued to the date of payment. No interest shall be charged if the entire assessment is paid to the City Clerk prior to November 20, 2025. You may at any time thereafter, pay to the City Clerk the entire amount of the assessment remaining unpaid, with interest accrued to December 31 of the year in which such payment is made. Such payment must be made before November 21 (for the assessment to be certified to the County Auditor) or interest will be charged through December 31 of the succeeding year. If you decide not to prepay the assessment before the date given above the rate of interest that will apply is 5.50 percent per year. Once assessments are certified to the County, the assessments are payable in equal annual installments extending over a period of 20 years for sanitary sewer and watermain improvements, the first of the installments to be payable on or before the first Monday in January 2026 and will bear interest at the rate of 5.50 percent per annum from the date of adoption of the assessment resolution. To the first installment, there shall be added interest on the entire assessment from the date of the assessment resolution until December 31, 2025. To each subsequent installment when due shall be added interest for one year on all unpaid installments. The proposed assessment roll is on file for public inspection at the City Clerk’s office. The total sanitary sewer amount to be assessed is $1,584,000 and the total watermain amount to be assessed is $169,200. The City contribution for the overall improvement project is $0. Written or oral objections will be considered at the meeting. No appeal may be taken as to the amount of an assessment unless a written objection signed by the affected property owner is filed with the municipal clerk prior to the assessment hearing or presented to the presiding officer at the hearing. The Council may upon such notice consider any objection to the amount of a proposed individual assessment at an adjourned meeting upon such further notice to the affected property owners as it deems advisable. An owner may appeal an assessment to district court pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, Section 429.081 by serving notice of the appeal upon the Mayor or Clerk within 30 days after the adoption of the assessment and filing such notice with the district court within ten days after service upon the Mayor or Clerk.