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• the land description was by metes and bounds and thereby violated State statutes and he finished by saying "such reassessing can't be done 10 years after the fact" . Mr. Fornell responded to the attorney's contention that the same reassess- ment notice had been sent to the property owners before the Beutz plat had been filed. Bruce Odlaug, 332 Hamm Building, St. Paul, identified himself as repre- senting the interest of Northern Gopher Enterprises who are protesting the reassessments against the Diamond 8 property. It was his contention that the City was negligent in responding to Ramsey County's inquiries regarding the original assessments . He cited a case in Hennepin County where Minneapolis has certified an error in street assessments and where the court had upheld the rights of the property owner. He felt it was "grossly unfair to make the present owner pay for assessments which were not collected because of the City's negligence" and also insisted the assessments should be the prior owner's responsibility. The City' s counsel responded to this by saying "assessments are made against property and not owners" . He contended that the only way the City will determine where its rights lie is to adopt the assessments rolls and certify them to the auditor for collection. He said the City had pondered during many public meetings what disposition should be made of the unpaid improvement costs and finally had concluded it was the • responsibility of the City in fairness .to all its residents to collect the amounts still owing. R.J. Kleinman, manager of the Diamond 8 Apartments said the City also had a responsibility to its residents who live in those apartments and who will have to pay an additional $83.00 a year in rent for the next 10 years since this amount was not included when the rentals were established for those units. Mr. Drawz 's response was "Diamond 8 has been enjoying the benefits of those improvements for all these years without paying" . Laura Sultze, 2808 Silver Lane, was also present but did not speak. Later she indicated she would voice her objections to the reassessments against the Equinox property at the next meeting. Brad Bjorklund, 3416 Roosevelt Street N.E. , who was present as an ob- server for the League of Women Voters, identified himself as an "inter- ested taxpayer" and questioned whether the recovery costs of the liti- gation might not exceed the $42, 000 the City hopes to collect as reassess- ments and thereby result in increased costs rather than benefits to the taxpayers. Motion by Councilman Sundland and seconded by Councilman Sauer to adopt Resolution 77-048 setting the reassessment rolls for unpaid improvements as listed. RESOLUTION 77-048 • A RESOLUTION ADOPTING THE ASSESSMENT ROLL FOR THE REASSESSMENT AND APPORTIONMENT OF MISCELLANEOUS IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS (5)