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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCC 7-20-2010 Street Assessments 2009 NoticeCITY OF LAKE ELMO NOTICE OF HEARING ON PROPOSED ASSESSMENT 2009 STREET IMPROVEMENTS Notice is hereby given that the City Council of Lake Elmo will meet in the Council Chambers of the City Hall at or approximately after 7:00 P.M. on Tuesday, August 17, 2010, to consider, and possibly adopt, the proposed assessment against abutting property for the 2009 Street Improvements. Adoption by the Council of the proposed assessment may occur at the hearing. The following are the areas proposed to be assessed: Myron Ellman Subdivision: The amount to be specially assessed against each particular lot, piece, or parcel of land located along Legion Avenue North from 30th Street to the south end, is $700. Eden Park: The amount to be specially assessed against each particular lot, piece, or parcel of land located along Legion Lane North, Legion Lane Court North, Legion Lane Circle North and Lisbon Avenue North, is $1,750. Eden Park 2nd Addition: The amount to be specially assessed against each particular lot, piece, or parcel of land located along 21st Street North from Manning Trail North to the west end, is $2,200. The Forest: The amount to be specially assessed against each particular lot, piece, or parcel of land located along 3rd Street Place North from Lake Elmo Avenue to the west end, is $1,750. Said assessments are proposed to be payable in equal annual installments extending over a period of 10 years, the first of the installments to be payable on or before the first Monday in January 2011, and will bear interest at the rate of 5.00 percent per annum from the date of adoption of the assessment resolution. To the first installment shall be added interest on the entire assessment from the date of the assessment resolution until December 31, 2010. To each subsequent installment when due shall be added interest for one year on all unpaid installments. You may at any time prior to certification of the assessment to the county auditor, pay the entire assessment on such property, with interest accrued to the date of payment, to the City Clerk. No interest shall be charged if the entire assessment is paid 30 days from the adoption of this assessment. 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 15 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 5.00 percent per year. The proposed assessment roll is on file for public inspection at the City Clerk’s office. The total amount of the proposed assessment is $134,050. The City contribution for the project is $311,318. 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. The City Council is authorized in its discretion to defer the payment of an assessment for any homestead property owned by a person for whom it would be a hardship to make payment if the owner is 65 years of age or older and/or the owner is a person retired by virtue of a permanent and total disability or by a person who is a member of the Minnesota National Guard or other military reserves who is ordered into active military service, as defined in section 190.05 subdivision 5b or 5c, as stated in the person’s military orders, for whom it would be a hardship to make the payments. The owner must request a deferment of the assessment at or before the public hearing at which the assessment is adopted and make application on forms prescribed by the City Clerk within 30 days after the adoption. Notwithstanding the standards and guidelines established by the City for determining a hardship, a deferment of an assessment may be obtained pursuant to Minnesota Statutes Section 435.193. DATED: July 20, 2010 BY ORDER OF THE LAKE ELMO CITY COUNCIL Dean Johnston, Mayor (Published in the Oakdale-Lake Elmo Review on July 28, 2010)