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City Council Regular Meeting Minutes February 11, 2003 Page 2 1 V. PUBLIC HEARINGS. 2 A. Street and utility improvements for 2003 (Resolution 03-0191. 3 Mayor Hodson welcomed Todd Hubmer, WSB &Associates to the meeting. 4 5 Mr. Hubmer addressed the Council and gave an overview of the 2003 Street Project. 6 7 Mr. Hubmer said this project consists of street reconstruction and replacement of water main and 8 storm sewer on the following streets: Edward Street(33rd Avenue NE to 34`h Avenue NE), 34`h 9 Avenue NE (Stinson Boulevard to Silver Lake Road), and Belden Drive(33rd Avenue NE to 34`h 10 Avenue NE). 11 12 Mr. Hubmer gave an overview of the funding for the project. He said the estimated cost of the 13 improvement is$1,700,000.00. He explained the project costs are broken down as follows: 14 $1,132,000.00 for street improvements, $260,000.00 for sanitary sewer improvements, 15 $284,000.00 for water main improvements, and$24,000.00 for storm sewer improvements. He 16 said about$363,000.00 will be assessed to the residents and$1,370,000.00 will be paid by the 17 City. 18 19 Mr. Hubmer said the City's assessment policy is that 65%of street costs are paid by the City and 20 35%are assessed to the residents,. He presented a table,which gave an example of a typical 21 assessment in the City at an interest rate of 6.75% over a 15-year assessment period. 22 23 Mr. Hubmer explained if the entire principal amount is paid before November 30, 2003 interest 24 charges can be avoided. He said, after a year, future interest charges can be avoided by paying 25 them off before December 1, 2003. 26 27 Councilmember Sparks asked how assessments are done by other cities. Mr. Hubmer said it 28 varies by communities. He said some cities assess sanitary and water main charges where St. 29 Anthony doesn't and others have higher participation by residents. 30 31 Councilmember Sparks asked if this is part of the normal 10-year plan or part of the flood work 32 being done. Mr. Hubmer said the flood work ended last year with the street reconstruction 33 schedule. 34 35 Mayor.Hodson opened the public hearing at 7:04 p.m. He asked if the public had any questions 36 or comments and asked them to come forward at this time. 37 38 Charles Hockert, 3306 Belden Drive, came forward and addressed issues regarding the 2003 39 property assessments. He stated that because he has a large backyard he will pay much more for 40 the street out front than most of his neighbors. He-feels that all neighbors use the street to the 41 same extent, therefore everyone should pay the same amount in assessments and make it equal. 42 He would like to see this changed for the future. 43 44 Bob Kluwe, 2600 34`h Avenue NE, came forward and addressed his feelings towards the 45 proposed assessment for street repairs. He feels the assessment and the method of assessment 46 seem very unfair. He does not understand why individual lot owners should be assessed for such 47 repairs when they are being made to public property. He said he does not own or control the