HomeMy WebLinkAboutItem 16 - Lake Elmo Ave WM - Notice of Final Improvement HearingCITY OF LAKE ELMO
NOTICE OF HEARING ON PROPOSED ASSESSMENT
LAKE ELMO AVENUE TRUNK WATERMAIN 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, October 21,
2014, to consider, and possibly adopt, the proposed assessment against abutting property
for the Lake Elmo Avenue Trunk Watermain Improvements. Adoption by the Council of
the proposed assessment may occur at the hearing. The following describes the area
proposed to be assessed:
The amount to be specially assessed against each particular lot, piece, or parcel of
land receiving a new individual service stub located along Lake Elmo Avenue
North from 30th Street to future 5th Street is $2,900.
You may at any time prior to certification of the assessment to the county auditor on
November 21, 2014, 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 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 (date assessment
certified to 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 4.61 percent per year.
Once assessments are certified to the County, the assessments are payable in equal annual
installments extending over a period of 15 years, the first of the installments to be
payable on or before the first Monday in January 2015, and will bear interest at the rate of
4.61 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, 2014. 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 amount of the proposed watermain improvement assessment is $92,800. The
City contribution for the watermain improvement project is $2,406,000. 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: September 16, 2014
BY ORDER OF THE LAKE ELMO CITY COUNCIL
Mike Pearson, Mayor
(Published in the Oakdale-Lake Elmo Review on September 24, 2014)