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CITY O Agenda Section: 10. - 7: 10 PH REQUEST FOR COUNCIL CONSIDERATION Report Number: 95-1350C �UJ�19� Report Date: 5-10-95 STAFF REPORT Council Action: OC W ❑ Special Order of Business May 22 , 1995 ❑ Public Hearings CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE ❑ Consent Agenda N Council Business Item Description: Consideration of Ordinance No. 560, Adoption of the Public Improvement Assessment Policy. Administrator's Review/Recommendation: - No comments to supplement this repot., i....�� - Comments attached. Explanation/Summary_(attachsuppleme r, sheets as ecessary.) SUMMARY; The need for an equitable means of maintaining and reconstructing the City' s infrastructure has become a necessity. Streets and sanitary sewer mains are rapidly aging and are in need of reconstruction and rehabilitation. The current fund account, Silver Lake Woods Fund, that has been utilized for several years to perform preventative maintenance of the streets is rapidly being depleted. In fact in 1996 approximately $112, 000 will remain available for maintenance. After next year these funds will be extinguished, leaving no funding means for maintenance measures such as cracksealing, patching, and sealcoating. Wastewater employees Wally Mortenson and Larry Decheine presented information to Council regarding to the deteriorating condition of the City' s sanitary sewer system in March of 1995 . The City can no longer continue to provide preventative maintenance, to the degree necessary, to the aging system. Sewer mains will require extensive rehabilitation or '!! reconstruction in the very near future.Staff and the City Council have been discussing the need for an equitable means for the reconstruction or improvement of the City' s infrastructure, for the past year and a half . While the current charter does provide for assessing public improvements, no standardized method is addressed. Staff has reviewed several assessment policies from surrounding communities, and has formulated a policy for the City of Mounds View. This policy has been discussed at council work sessions numerous times and submitted to the city attorney for his comments . Staff has implemented the attorney' s suggested changes, and presented the document to Council at the May 1, 1995 work session. At that time, staff was given the direction to proceed with adoption, and schedule a public hearing. Should Council have any questions or concerns prior to the public hearing, that staff may address, please call me . Michael Ulrich, Director of Public Works RtECOMMENDATION; Approve the formal introduction of Ordinance No. 560, adopting a Public Improvement Policy for the City of Mounds View.