4.7 SR 10-05-2020
Request for Action
To Item Number
Mayor and Council 4.7
Agenda Section Meeting Date Prepared by
Consent October 5, 2020 Jason Cook, P.E., Project Manager
Item Description Reviewed by
Windsor Park 3rd Addition – Sewer Extension Justin Femrite, .PE., Public Works Director
Call for Hearing on Proposed Assessment
Reviewed by
Cal Portner, City Administrator
Action Requested
Approve, by motion, a resolution calling for a hearing on proposed assessment.
Background/Discussion
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The Windsor Park 3 Addition Homeowners Association (HOA) has a shared use, low pressure sewer system
with a failing treatment system. A feasibility report was completed and found the 88 homes in the HOA could
connect to the city system by running a new sewer line along Ranch Road from their existing shared drainage field
to the force main currently being constructed along the Great Northern Trail.
This project is proposed to be assessed to the benefiting properties and therefore, has followed the MS 429
Special Assessment process.
An Improvement Hearing was held on September 8, 2020, where residents were given the opportunity to speak.
The plans and specifications have been publicly advertised for bid with a bid opening date of October 5, 2020.
Bid results will be available at the council meeting if requested.
The final hearing in the MS 429 Special Assessment process is to hold a public hearing on the proposed
assessment at which time those assessed properties will be given the opportunity to speak.
Financial Impact
NA
Mission/Policy/Goal
Long Term: Extend sanitary sewer service area to the north.
Attachments
Resolution Calling for a Hearing
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City of Elk River
City Council
Resolution 20-____
A Resolution of the City Council of the City of Elk River Calling for a Hearing
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on Proposed Assessment for the Windsor Park 3 Addition Sewer Extension
Project
WHEREAS, pursuant to Resolution 20-55 passed by the council on September 8, 2020,
Bolton & Menk, Inc. was directed to prepare a proposed assessment of the cost of the
improvement of a sanitary sewer extension from the Great Northern Trail to the Windsor Park
3rd Addition along Ranch Road. The improvement consists of gravity sanitary sewer, a lift
station, and forcemain construction, and
WHEREAS, Bolton & Menk has notified the council that such proposed assessment has
been calculated and filed in their office for public inspection.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Elk
River, Minnesota, as follows:
1. A hearing shall be held at 6:30 p.m. on November 2, 2020 in the Elk River city hall council
chambers located at 13065 Orono Parkway, Elk River, MN 55330 to pass upon such
proposed assessment. All persons owning property affected by such improvement will
be given an opportunity to be heard with reference to such assessment.
2. Assessments shall be payable in equal annual installments extending over a period of 15
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years, the first of the installments to be payable on or before the 15 day of May, 2021,
and shall bear interest at the rate of 2.50% percent per annum from the date of the
adoption of the assessment resolution.
3. Bolton & Menk, Inc. is hereby directed to cause a notice of the hearing on the proposed
assessment to be published once in the official newspaper at least two weeks prior to the
hearing, and they shall state in the notice the total cost of the improvement. Bolton &
Menk shall also cause mailed notice to be given to the owner of each parcel described in
the assessment roll not less than two weeks prior to the hearing.
4. The owner of any property so assessed may, at any time prior to certification of the
assessment to the county auditor, pay the whole of the assessment on such property, with
interest accrued to the date of payment, to the City of Elk River, except that no interest
shall be charged if the entire assessment is paid within 30 days from the adoption of the
assessment. An owner may at any time thereafter, pay to the City of Elk River the entire
amount of the assessment remaining unpaid, with interest accrued to December 31 of
the year in which such payment is made. Such payment must be made before November
15 or interest will be charged through December 31 of the succeeding year.
Passed and adopted this 5th day of October 2020.
John J. Dietz, Mayor
ATTEST:
Tina Allard, City Clerk