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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON PROPOSED ASSESSMENTS FOR THE • BRONSON DRIVE RECONSTRUCTION PROJECT TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: Notice is hereby given that the Council will meet at 7:10pm on November 12, 1996 in the Council Chambers at the Mounds View City Hall, to consider, and possibly adopt, the proposed assessment for the sewer, water, street and storm sewer improvement on Bronson Drive between Edgewood Drive and Raymond Avenue. Adoption by the Council of the proposed assessment may occur at the hearing. The following is the area proposed to be assessed: Bronson Drive between Edgewood Drive and Raymond Avenue, including portions of the EW-6 and 35W-3 Drainage Districts. Payments of the assessment are to be made to the county auditor. No interest shall be charged if the entire assessment is paid within 30 days from the adoption of this assessment. You may at any time thereafter, pay 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 prepay the assessment before the date given above, the rate of interest that will apply is 7 percent per year. The right to partially prepay the assessment according to City Code Section 202.12, subdivisions 6 and 7, is available. The proposed assessment roll is on file for public inspection at the City Clerk- Administrator's office. The total amount of the proposed assessment is $328,618.00. Written or oral objections will be considered at the meeting. No appeal may be taken as to the amount of an assessment unless a signed, written objection is filed with the Clerk-Administrator prior to the hearing or present 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. If an assessment is contested or there is an adjourned hearing, the following procedure will be followed: 1. The City will present its case first by calling witnesses who may testify by narrative or be examination, and by the introduction of exhibits. After each witness has testified, the contesting party will be allowed to ask questions. This procedure will be repeated with each witness until neither side has further questions. 2. After the City has presented all its evidence, the objector may call witnesses or present such testimony as the objector desires. The same procedure for questioning of the City's witnesses will be followed with the objector's witnesses. 3. The objector may be represented by counsel. •