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2 "an amount not to exceed $4,650," at the April 14 hearing, City staff withdrew its e recommendation and requested that the Council proceed with easement negotiations with the Association on a "no-cost" basis. The City is requesting that the Association "give" the City a temporary easement across all of its property during the duration of the construction project and "give" a permanent easement for 5500 square feet of property for drainage, utility and pond easements. The City's request for "no-cost" easements appears inconsistent with the City's interest in water quality improvements; the City's previous purchase of a water main easement from the Association; and community practice. In the City Engineer's March 24, 2003 e-mail to the Task Force he stated "the value [for the City's requested easements] is more like $1 to $2 per square foot." Ramsey County anticipates paying North Heights approximately $1.69 per square foot for a requested drainage easement. The City Managers and City Engineers for Moundsview, New Brighten, Roseville, and Shoreview advised the Task Foree that they expect to and do pay for private property easements for projects that benefit their municipalities. In some circumstances, some of the municipalities retain the services of private appraisal firms to determine the market value of the affected land at a cost of $2500-$3000 per project. Typically, the market value is estimated to be $2-$5 per square foot, $5 being for commercial property, The municipalities' payment to the private property owners for the requested easements are typically 50% of the market value; approximately $1-$2.50 per square foot - consistent with the figure provided by the City Engineer. e The Task Force remains willing to assist and cooperate with the City in its water quality goals. However, the Task Force is unwilling to agree to terms that would be detrimental to the Association or to its members. The Association Task Force would be derelict in its fiduciary responsibilities to the Association and its members to recommend a "no-cost" casement. Therefore, the Association Task Force is unable to take the City's request for the proposed water quality work to its members until the issue of compensation for the easements is reconsidered by the City and the Council and resolved between the City and the Association Task Force, To continue to assist the City with its water quality improvement goals, the Association Task Force is willing to propose to the Association members that they accept $0.75 per square foot for the City's requested permanent easements, The Association Task Force is also willing to recommend a "no-cost" temporary easement across its entire property for the City's requested work, contingent upon the execution of an Agreement of Understanding between the City and the Association for the proposed work. The Association Task Force requests that the matter of compensation for easements to the Association be added to the Council's meeting agenda at the earliest opportunity, A preferably the first Council meeting of May, 2003. ,.