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CITY OF ARDEN mILS . MEM)RAN[)lJM DATE: September 20, 1994 TO: Dorothy Person, City Administrator FRCM@ Terry Post, City Accountant SUBJECT : County Administrative Costs f= Local IIIprovements Assessments An 8\30\94 letter from Chris Samuel, Rarrsey County Manager L:x:al Government Policy & Research to myself outlines a new Minnesota Statute and its 1995 impact on the City of Arden Hills. The 1993 legislature added Minnesota Statutes 429.061, subd. 5 which provides in part that "... a municipality shall pay to the county auditor all administrative expenses incurred by the county under subdivision 3 for each special assessment of any local improvement . certified by the municipality to the oounty auditor." Ramsey County is proposing a fee of $2.50 per assessment per parcel per year if the County maintains the assessment rolls. The estimated charge to Arden Hills for 1995 is $928 (based on the count of active assessments as of 8\18\94) . Services the county provides in maintaining the assessment rolls include the following: 1. Enter new assessment rolls into the database including making a record of payments before certification. 2. Collect, distribute and report payments made before certification of the assessments to the tax list (prepayments). 3. Keep a record of senior citizen, green acres and municipal deferment. Provide payoff l:alances to tm:payers upon request. 4. Process parcel splits and ccmbinations based upon City recomrendations for assessment allocations to the new parcels. 5. Adjust assessment rolls based upon city charges to the roll made by resolution. 6. Answer tm:payer and City assessment l:alance requests. .