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City Council Regular Meeting Minutes April 14, 2020 Page 4 1 of and will be setting up electric vehicle charges at the City's Well House Number Five, near the 2 tennis courts so those residents will be able to park there and charge their vehicles. Regarding the 3 retaining wall, the City has plans to replace it for this project. He noted the exact dollar amount 4 staff is not one hundred percent sure but will be around the $50,000 range for that wall and pretty 5 expensive. Currently it is a two-tier retaining wall and each tier is approximately three to four 6 feet so the new wall will be somewhere around that at six to eight feet high and will be a single 7 retaining wall. In regard to the fence, the City is not proposing to do a traditional split rail fence 8 or black chain link or vinyl fence, the City really wants to mimic what is on Silver Lake Road 9 with the wall and fencing. 10 11 Ms. Noelle Noyes indicated in the presentation there was something about there had to be 12 something in writing at this meeting and she wondered how that worked given that they are not, 13 as a group, present at the meeting. Mr. Messner explained if the residents would like to appeal 14 their assessment then the resident would need to sign a written intent of appeal and deliver that to 15 City offices. If the resident wished to do that the resident could either sign it at the meeting and 16 request to do so or a written notice can be sent to City Hall that the resident intends to appeal and 17 is something that can be done through email. If the resident does intend to appeal, signing a 18 notice does not mean that the appeal is a done process. The resident still needs to file the appeal 19 to the County Courthouse within thirty days of the adoption of the assessment role and the 20 resident would need to hire an attorney and go through the appeal process after filing at the 21 County Courthouse. 22 23 Ms. Noelle Noyes explained that given the extraordinary nature of what is going on right now, 24 the Pandemic and impacts on the economy and people's health, etc., she was a bit surprised that 25 none of that has been brought up in terms of assessing the potential impact of this under 26 completely changed circumstances from when the project was first brought up and talked about. 27 She knew that people in the neighborhood have been furloughed already and there is a lot of 28 unemployment and it is unclear whether or not that is going to improve or not so it is somewhat 29 surprising to her in a disappointing way that there has not been some sort of more at least 30 information discussion about the potential impacts of the new situation on this pretty large cost 31 of thirteen to nineteen thousand dollars if paid as a part of taxes. 32 33 Ms. Sara Atwood indicated the City came out and marked where an easement is going to be on 34 her property and it is quite a large chunk of her property and she is not able to put anything on 35 the easement, such as the shed her family want there and indicated the easement will really 36 impact their land and what can be enjoyed. Mr. Messner explained the wall itself is on the 37 property line and the purpose of the easement is for the construction of the retaining wall and for 38 the installation of the storm sewer that needs to be replaced. There is an existing storm sewer in 39 Ms. Atwood's yard in that location and that line needs to be replaced because it is failing, and the 40 side of the embankment is washing out and needs to be repaired. These are improvements that 41 are necessary for the project. If the line is replaced the City is asking that a proper easement over 42 that is placed in order to access and maintain it. He noted Ms. Atwood is still allowed to place a 43 shed on that easement which he did explain in an email to her husband on that. The only thing 44 not allowed would be a permanent structure. He noted the easement is only ten feet wide on the 45 property line so by City Code they would not be able to put a permanent structure within that 46 distance anyway due to City setbacks for structures.