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HomeMy WebLinkAbout79-045 ~\ . -. ~. ~ 77'-~.j- Extract of Minutes of Meeting of City Council City of Arden Hills Ramsey County, Minnesota Held: August 21, 1979 Pursuant to due call and notice thereof, a special meeting of the City Council of the City of Arden Hills, Minnesota, was duly held in the City Hall in said City on Tuesday, the 21st day of August, 1979, at 7:30 o'clock p.m. The following members were present: Mayor crepeau and Councilman Hanson, Wingert, Crichton and Woodburn; and the following were absent: None. Also in attendance were: Charlotte McNiesh, city Clerk Administrator1 Donald Christoffersen of Short, Elliot, Hendrickson, City Consulting Engineer1 Donald Lamb, City Treasurer1 and Peter S. Popovich of Peterson, Popovich, Knutson & Flynn~ City Bond Consultant. The City Clerk Administrator presented an affidavit showing , publication of notice of hearing on the proposed assessment for Improvement No. W-78-5 in the New Brighton Bulletin on August 2, 1979, which affidavit was examined, found satisfactory, and ordered placed on file. The Clerk Administrator also exhibited a Certificate of Mailing Notice of Hearing to all affected property owners. MAYOR CREPEAU: At this time I will ask the city engineer, Don Christoffersen, to briefly explain the improvement. ~ '. 2 MR. CHRISTOFFERSEN: This improvement includes con-' structing watermain along county Road F between Fernwood and . Lexington Avenue, and it serves the abutting proper'ty owners. MAYOR CREPEAU: At this time I'll ask our fiscal consultant, Mr. Popovich, to explain the financing. MR. POPOVICH: This project was 100 percent petitioned for. No feasibility hearing was required. The total estimated cost at that time was $23,600. The final cost for this improvement is $29,408. The improvement will be lOO% assessed. It's $l3.86739 per front foot and one l-inch service at $345.00 to raise the $29,408. . Assessments will be spread over 20 years at B% unless prepayment rights are exercised. MAYOR CREPEAU: Does the Clerk have any written communica- tions or objections? MRS. MC NIESH: None, your Honor. Mayor Crepeau annoUnced that the meeting was open for the con- sideration of Objections, if any, to said proposed assessment. All persons present were then given the opportunity to present oral objections. No one appeared to be heard. Mayor Crepeau closed the hearing, and councilman Hanson then introduced the following resolution and moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 79-45 RESOLUTION ADOPTING AND CONFIRMING ASSESSMENTS FOR IMPROVEMENT NO. W-78-5 BE IT RESOLVED by the city council of the city of Arden Hills, Minnesota, as follows: l. The amount proper and necessary to be specially assessed at this time for IMprovement No. W-78-5 against every assessable lot, piece or parcel of land affected thereby , . . 3 has been duly calculated upon the basis of benefits, without regard to cash valuation, in accordance with the provisions of Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 429, as amended, and notice has been duly mailed and published, as required by law, that this Council would meet to hear, consider and pass upon all objec- tions, if any, and said proposed assessment has at all times since its filing been open for public inspection, and an oppor- tunity has been given to all interested persons to present their objections, if any, to such proposed assessments. 2. This Council, having heard and considered all objec- tions so presented, and being fully advised in the premises, finds that each of the lots, pieces and parcels of land enumer- ated in the proposed assessment was and is specially benefited by the construction of said improvement in not less than the amount of the assessment set opposite the description of each such lot, piece and parcel of land, respectively; and such amount so set out is hereby levied against each of the respec- tive lots, pieces and parcels of land therein. 3. The proposed assessments are hereby adopted and con- firmed as the proper special assessments for each of said lots, pieces and parcels of land, respectively, and the assessment against each parcel, together with interest at the rate of 8% per annum aCdrtiing on the full amount thereof from time to time unpaid, shall be a lien concurrent with general taxes upon such parcel and all thereof. The total amount of each such assess- ment shall be payable in equal annual principal installments extending over a period of twenty (21)) years, the 'first of said installments, together with interest on the entire assess- ment from the date hereof to December 3l, 1980, to be payable with general taxes for the year 1979, collectible in 1980, and one of each of the remaining installments, together with one year's interest on that and all other unpaid installments, to be payable with general taxes for each consecutive year there- after until the entire assessment is paid. ' 4. Prior to certification of the assessment' to the C0unty Auditor, the owner of any lot, piece or parcel of land assessed hereby may at any time pay the whole or at least 50% of such assessment, with interest to the date of payment; to the city Treasurer, but no interest shall be charged if such payment is made within 30 days after the date of this resolution. 5. The City Clerk Administrator shall, as soon as may be, prepare and transmit to the County Auditor a certified duplicate of the assessment roll, with each installment and interest on each unpaid assessment set forth separately, to be extended upon the proper tax lists of the County, and the County Auditor shall thereafter collect said assessments in the manner provided by law. .. . 4 The motion for the adoption of the foregoing resolution 4It was duly seconded by Councilman Wingert, and upon vote being taken thereon, the following voted in favor thereof: Mayor crepeau and Councilmen Hanson, Wingert and Woodb'ilrn1 and the following voted against the same: . None1 whereupon said resolution was declared duly passed and adopted, Councilman Crichton having momentarily left the Council Chambers and being absent when the vote was taken. . '" . . " . 5 STATE OF MINNESOTA ) ) SS COUNTY OF RAMSEY ) I, the undersigned, being the duly qualified and acting City Clerk Administrator of the City of Arden Hills, Ramsey County, Minnesota, do hereby certify that I have carefully compared the attached and foregoing extract of minutes of a regular meeting of the Council of said City held on the 2lst day of August, 1979, with the original thereof on file in my office, and the same is a full, true and complete transcript therefrom insofar as the same relates to Improvement No. W-78-5. WITNESS MY HAND and the seal of said City this ~ day of September, 1979. ~-l~-Ii7h ~~ city Clerk Administrator (SEAL)