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City of Centerville Council Meeting Minutes June 8, 2022 do. A discussion ensued as to the cost and as to when they should hookup. Motion by Council Member Koski, seconded by Council Member Lakso to extend the business water hookup program until the end of 2023 as stated. Council Members Koski, Mosher, King, Lakso yah and Mayor Love nay. Motion carries 4 to 1. 6. Review of Water Hook-Up Ordinance Administrator Statz stated going back in history, for it many years the City had a sunset date for water hookup The City extended that date many times and there was no good enforcement mechanism to force people and would end up suing people who hadnÓt connect to water. He stated we needed to find an alternative plan to affect that change. The three categories that would determine to connect to city water are as follows: well failure, large addition to house and time of sale of home or structure. The only exceptions family to family transactions or refinancing. If you sell to a non-family member you are required to connect to city water at the time of sale. He stated that itÓs working well around town and added several to water system. In downtown area where we have mixed use district and trying to encourage redevelopment the question becomes is it good for City to force water hook up to a building that would like to redevelop. For example: people who are buying buildings as in investment for a future redevelopment of that building (tear down and build new) and ordinance says it needs to be connected. If someone buys and immediately tears down and can demonstrate to us that immediate intent, we can work around this and they are obviously going to hook into city water with a new building. He stated we have already given two exceptions to this in the ordinance in the downtown area and issued some multi-year(s) agreements, because people bought them and says they like to redevelop them but not right away maybe in a year or two. The city allowed this and deferred option to connect to water until they redevelopment. This has been done twice and have 2 existing agreements in place. A third situation came up and sometimes when exception becomes rule maybe we should change rule. If this going to happen often in the downtown area, maybe we need to look at whether or not this should apply in the downtown area. In general terms, in an area where you are trying to redevelop properties the more you invest in property the harder it is to redevelop. In this case, a blighted building and sale pending and do not see compelling to make this building hook up to city water because this was purchase for redevelopment. A lengthy discussion ensued. Mayor Love stated that Administrator Statz is looking for a motion from council with direction. Administrator Statz stated it seems like his proposal was the most middle ground and continue on what we are doing and extend those agreements and perhaps we should bring back a policy because do not have a clear policy on what these agreements look like. Maybe we can memorialize what we have already done for those property owners and bring that back as policy and say hereÓs our policy, if home sell put up an escrow Î you could have up to five years to development or not and everyone has this same agreement. Council Member King stated he likes the shorter time limit. He stated if they buy it shouldnÓt take any more than 2 years. Administrator Statz explained that timing is everything. If the market crashes, 2 years will go fast and 5 years wonÓt seem like enough time. But in the case that is coming to us now, itÓs a matter of property assembly and the name of Page 7 of 10