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M0U--N-DitSVV!rW City of Mounds View Staff R1 Item No: 08E Meeting Date: October 25, 2021 Type of Business: Council Business City Administrator Review: To: Honorable Mayor and City Council From: Nyle Zikmund, City Administration Item Title/Subject: First Reading and Introduction, Ordinance 982 Amending Title III, Administration, Chapter 37, Public Improvements and IX, Chapter 92, Parks and Recreation Introduction: Chapter 37 of the Mounds View Municipal Code, Public Improvements, is outdated where it refers to reapportionment of public improvements and assessing properties, therefore, Staff has proposed changes to this Chapter. Chapter 92 has one minor correction. Discussion: Currently the City Code, in Chapter 37, contains specific calculations to reapportion public improvement assessments. As the City does not currently follow this method for assessing properties, Staff is proposing to revise the Code to state that any proposed assessments shall be determined on a project -by -project basis by the City Council. In addition, the proposed ordinance provides the City Council with flexibility when levying special assessments for public improvement projects by removing the rigid dollar amounts and percentages that were previously used to calculate assessments and replacing those with maximum percentages, subject to statutory limitations. Chapter 92 contains an excerpt where it refers to the City's fees schedule for violations of that Chapter. However, because violations of the Chapter are misdemeanors and are handled via the Ramsey Court system, their fees and penalties would apply. Therefore, this excerpt should be removed from the Mounds View Fee Schedule. Staff Recommendation: Staff recommends that the City Council conduct the First Reading and Introduction of Ordinance 982. The second reading will be held on November 8, 2021. Respectfully, Nyle Zikmund City Administrator