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e The Honorable Mayor and City Council~ October 21, 1993 Page Two or has been modified. As an example, the City Council is aware that the current assessment policy on reconstruction of residenti!ll streets is to charge a unit cost of $22/front foot. However, the assessment manual's written text would indicate that the reconstruction of residential roads is to be assessed 100% to the abutting property owners. This is just one of many examples throughout the assessment manual of items that have been changed by Council action in the past but hav.e not yet been indicated by a redraft of the entire policy. A similar example would be lateral storm sewer where the City Council has settled in on a policy of assessing $8/front foot. e The first major trunk sanitary sewer and water improvement project the City undertook was the Western Area improvements. This was begun in the late 1980's. Through the various studies, designs, and estimated costs, a rate of $3800/acre was arrived at as the cost needed to fund the entire extension of trunk utilities to the western City limits. We really will not know if this rate is correct until all trunk improvements are completed in the Western Area, which will likely be several years. As other projects have followed the Western Area improvem.ent, the same $3800/acre for trunk sanitary sewer and water have been utilized. Examples of this would include all properties assessed in the first phase of the Western Area improvements, Hillside Estates 1st Addition, Cherryhill Bluffs 1st and 2nd Addition, Meadowvale Heights 1st Addition, and the Nord property north of Meadowvale Heights. This $3800/acre cost has also been presented to the developers of the proposed Elk Park Center. In addition, rough cost estimates of the improvements proposed for the East Highway 10 corridor in the next several years have indicated assessment rates in the neighborhood of $3800/acre. City Council discussion on the East Highway 10 area has seemed to indicate a desire.to utilize this $3800/acre cost for trunk improvements and to have the City fund any cost above that amount, should the assessments not cover the entire project cost. I hope this information is helpful in the City Council's consideration of this issue. I will be in attendance at Monday evening's City Council meeting should you have any further questions. Sincerely, MSA, CONSULTING ENGINEERS ~9>>f~ Terry J. ~~r~;,-p.E. TJM:ds e 152-2109.OCT