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Notice of Hearing on Proposed Assessment City of Elk River Windsor Park 3rd Addition — Sewer Extension October 16, 2020 TO THE OWNER OF PROPERTY AT , P.I.D.. Notice is hereby given that the council will meet at 6:30 p.m. on November 2, 2020 at Elk River City Hall to consider, and possibly adopt, the proposed assessment for the Windsor Park 3' Addition Sewer Extension improvement. Adoption by the council of the proposed assessment may occur at the hearing. The Windsor Park 3' Addition development is the area proposed to be assessed. The maximum amount to be specially assessed against your particular lot, piece, or parcel of land is $22,587.04. The total assessment includes the cost of the improvement, the Sewer Access Charge, and the Trunk Sewer Fee. The improvement cost for the new sewer extension along Ranch Road from the Great Northern Trail to Joplin Street NW, as well as the abandonment of the existing treatment system is $1,345,695.92, based on bids received. This amount reflects $378.86 less per parcel than discussed at the Improvement Hearing and estimated in the Feasibility Report. The fixed connection fees ($5,385.00 Sewer Access Charge and $1,910.45 Trunk Sewer Fee) are also included in the total assessment. These fees are commonly required to be paid upfront, but the City will allow them to be financed with the improvement assessment. The proposed assessment roll is attached. Such assessment is proposed to be payable in equal annual installments extending over a period of 15 years, and will bear interest at the rate of 2.50 percent per annum from the date of the adoption of the assessment resolution. To the first installment will appear on your 2021 property tax statement. You may at any time prior to certification of the assessment to the county auditor, pay the entire assessment on such property, with interest accrued to the date of payment, to the City of Elk River. No interest shall be charged if the entire assessment is paid within 30 days from the adoption of this assessment. You may at any time thereafter, pay to the County of Sherburne 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. If you decide not to prepay the assessment before the date given above the rate of interest that will apply is 2.50 percent per year. The right to partially prepay the assessment is available prior to certification of the assessment to the county auditor. Written or oral objections will be considered at the meeting. No appeal to district court may be taken as to the amount of an assessment unless a written objection signed by the affected property owner is filed with the municipal clerk prior to the assessment hearing or presented to the presiding officer at the hearing. The council may upon such notice consider any objection to the amount of a proposed individual assessment at an adjourned meeting upon such further notice to the affected property owners as it deems advisable. Under Minn. Stat. §§ 435.193 to 435.195, the council may, in its discretion, defer the payment of this special assessment for any homestead property owned by a person 65 years of age or older, one retired by virtue of a permanent and total disability, or a member of the National Guard or other reserves ordered to active military service for whom it would be a hardship to make the payments. When deferment of the special assessment has been granted and is terminated for any reason provided in that law, all amounts accumulated plus applicable interest become due. Any assessed property owner meeting the requirements of this law may, within 30 days of the confirmation of the assessment, apply to the city clerk for the prescribed form for such deferral of payment of this special assessment on his/her property. An owner may appeal an assessment to district court pursuant to Minn. Stat. § 429.081 by serving notice of the appeal upon the mayor or clerk of the city within 30 days after the adoption of the assessment and filing such notice with the district court within ten days after service upon the mayor or clerk. Justin Femrite, P.E. City of Elk River Chief Engineer