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• opportunity to discuss their differences with Council members and staff. Mr. Fornell 's figures supported the $107, 652. 48 to be assessed to the property owners . Upon hearing no additional comments , the following motion was made. Motion by Councilman Sauer and seconded by Councilman Sundland to adopt Resolution 1977-047 setting the assessment rolls for Street Improvement Project 1976-1 as proposed and establishing an interest rate of 6% for any unpaid balance and repayment period of ten years . RESOLUTION 77-047 A RESOLUTION ADOPTING THE ASSESSMENT ROLL FOR STREET IMPROVEMENT PROJECT 1976-1 Motion carried unanimously. The meeting was recessed from 8: 56 p.m. and reconvened at 9 : 10 p.m. for a hearing on the proposed reassessments and apportionment of assessments for improvements made in 1960-1962 in the Apache Plaza and Diamond 8 area. John Drawz who had been appointed as a special counsel to the Council on this matter because the City Attorney had a -possible conflict of inter- est told those present how land divisions of the property in question which were not approved by the City had resulted in the County 's failure • to certify the assessments for improvements for collection. Several attorneys representing those whose property was being assessed gave their clients ' objections to the assessments . Loren Gross, 8609 Lyndale Avenue South, representing Mr. and Mrs . Edwin Beutz who recently replatted the property they purchased from the Apache Corporation in the manner required by the City, said there had been no legal papers discovered by him (which indicated there were any such assessments owing on the property) when he conducted a title search of the property. He also said he did not believe the previous owners were cognizant of the existence of such assessments when they sold the pro- perty to the Beutzes. He said the couple felt the additional $4 , 600 which the City is reassessing to this property really represented an addition to the purchase price which they might have not wanted to pay if they had known about its existence. Mark Jacobson, Suite 337, 7200 France Avenue ,South, presented the ob- jections of the Apache Corporation to the reassessment of their property. He felt the City was not following proper procedures set by the State for collection of such reassessed amounts. He did not believe the City had met any of the three conditions set by the State under which these amounts can be collected and he enumerated these. He contended that the City's failure to collect the assessments was a result of its own re- fusal to confirm to the County the property which was conveyed and recog- nized by the County Court. He then disputed the City 's contention that • (4)