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. . carrying charge that we discussed earlier, with the normal rights of prepayment. As to the error that Mr. Christoffersen brought to your attention - that's not unusual for something like that to happen because of the very nature of the lots. I advised the Clerk's office today to notify the Branches and they're here this evening so they've received actual notice. The purpose of assessment hearings is to give notice to people - they're entitled to get both written notice as well as the published notice in order to satisfy the due process requirements under the federal and state constitutions. I thought if they were here and voice whatever objection they have to the Council - obviously when you didn't get anything in the mail, you didn't think you were going to be assessed, but it's obviously an error that one lot should have the assessment taken off and added to another lot. The rule on assessment hearings is that you don't increase proposed lot assessments to something different from the assessment roll, but if you'll look at the notice - the people receive a notice that there's an assessment roll on file and you can come up and take a look at it - and for someone to have an assessment and then if you were to increase it at the assessment hearing - you should really do that after giving another notice. So that's why the Branches are here - they got their actual notice so that they're here. Hopefully we can go ahead tonight and adopt the assessment roll. If there were any violent objections, the only other thing we would do is eliminate the lot that received the assessment that shouldn't have it and hold a supplemental assessment hearing two weeks from now and we'd be right back here as we are tonight. That's the reason I made the suggestion that the Branches come to the meeting tonight. They receive the benefit and they don't have any other meritorious objections to the assessment - then obviously we could add that to the assessment roll tonight and certify the whole assessment, without the necessity of going through another publication - only as to that one parcel. As to the remaining parcels, we can certify that one tonight. Maybe that's a little involved as to the procedural part, but in view of the fact that the error was caught timely today - they didn't get written notice but they received actual notice so the due process requirements have been met and they are here. MAYOR WOODBURN: Mrs. McNiesh, are there any written objections or comments? MRS. McNIESH: None, you Honor. MAYOR WOODBURN: I will open the hearing then to comments from the audience. Are there any comments from the audience? MRS. KATHY BRANCH, l4l5 West County Road E: We received notice of this at approximately 5:05 today. At the last meeting that concerned this road - we did not -3-