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HomeMy WebLinkAbout79-044 ~ ~ ~ 71-t/1/ . , Extract of Minutes of Meeting of City council Ci ty 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 D?nald 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. SS-W-P-ST-77-7 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 would ask the city engineer, Don Christoffersen, to briefly explain the improvement. . . 2 MR. CHRISTOFFERSEN: This is Valentine Lake View No. 3 and the improvement included sanitary sewer, water, street and drainage, serving four lots on Gale Circle. MAYOR CREPEAU: Our fiscal consultant, Mr. Popovich, will explain the financing. " MR. POPOVICH: The feasibility report showed a total cost of $27,100. Final costs are $33,738. There are four lots involved. It will be lOO percent assessed. Sanitary sewer will be $1,006.54 a lot. Water, $1,543.85 a lot, and streets and drainage $5,884.11 a lot. Assessments will be for 20 years at 8%, with the same policy applying to prepayment without interest charges., MAYOR CREPEAU: Does the Clerk Administrator have any written questions or objections? MRS. MC NIESH: None, your Honor. MAYOR CREPEAU: The meeting any objections. Are there any? comments from the Council. Does comment? is open for consideration of Hearing none, we will have any Council member have a COUNCILMAN CRICHTON: Don, a question for Y0U. Apparently the cost was over 20% of the original estimate. I' understand there were some problems. Is that what generally caused the,over- run? Was the developer aware of that? MR. CHRISTOFFERSEN: At the time the bids were awarded, the owner was present and advised the Council that he wished the Council to proceed. Mayor Crepeau closed the hearing and Councilman Wingert introduced the following resolution and moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 79-44 RESOLUTION ADOPTING AND CONFIRMING ASSESSMENTS FOR IMPROVEMENT NO. SS-W-P-ST-77-7 BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Arden Yills, Minnesota, as follows: 1. The amount proper and necessary to be specially assessed at this time for Improvement No. SS-W-P-ST-77-7 against every assessable lot, piece or parcel of land affected thereby . . . 2 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 accruing 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 (20) 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 County 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 . . 3 upon the proper tax lists of the County, and the County Auditor shall thereafter collect' said assessments in the manner provided . by law. ' The motion for the adoption of the foregoing resolution . was duly seconded by Councilman Crichton, and upon vote being taken thereon, the following voted in favor thereof: Al11 and the following voted against the same: None 1 whereupon said resolution was declared duly passed and adopted. . . . ~ 4 STATE OF MINNESOTA ) ) SS . COUNTY OF :RA!<ISEY ) . 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 21st 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. SS-W-P-ST-77-7. WITNESS MY HAND and the seal of said City this J:;?t::t.day of September, 1979. C~:"{~i~!:2J - (SEAL)