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Item No: 9H Meeting Date: 05/09/05 Type of Business: CB City of Mounds View Staff Report To: Honorable Mayor and City Council From: Kurt Ulrich, City Administrator Item Title/Subject: Resolution 6520 Approving the Sufficiency of Petition in Opposition to the 2005 Street Improvement Project. Background: On Thursday, April 28, 2005, staff proceeded with determining the validity of the petition against the 2005 Street Improvement Project submitted by Valerie Amundsen. The petition contains the signatures of 70 households within the designated street improvement area. The project area contains a total of 103 units (properties) that were to be included in the project and assessed for the improvements. In order to validate the petition, staff printed the owner information for all of the parcels within the street improvement project area from the Ramsey County Online Maps and Data website, which is operated by the Ramsey County GIS Users Group. Based on this list, staff was able to verify that 65 of the 70 households that signed the petition were in fact the property owner. Of the five signatures that staff was unable to verify, four were due to owner discrepancy and one was due to an illegible signature. Of the four owner discrepancies, the sponsoring committee, Brian and Valerie Amundsen, had noted that three of the properties had new owners. The Ramsey County website from which the owner information was collected is not updated daily, and it is likely that the people who signed the petition are the property owners and the database has not been updated. At the May 2, 2005 Work Session meeting the City Administrator reported on the sufficiency of the petition, indicating that the City Council would consider a corresponding resolution at the May 9, 2005 regular meeting. Discussion: Staff could follow-up on verification of the four that have owner discrepancy by a manual search of County property records. However, being that the petition is sufficient as it stands, the additional verification was not conducted at this time. The 65 signatures verified represent 63% of the 103 households that are included in the project area. Based on this information, the petition is sufficient, as it contains more than 50% of the affected households within the 2005 Street Improvement Project area. Consequently, in accordance with the Charter: “ . . . the Council shall not make such improvement at the expense of the property benefited, unless, in the meantime, there be filed with the Council a petition asking that the improvement be made, signed by