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.y of iver MEMORANDUM Item # 7.4. TO: FROM: DATE: Mayor and City Council Pat Klaers, City Adm//~trator May 11, 1998 SUBJECT: School Street Project Update Councilmember Holmgren has requested that this item be added to the agenda. In case you missed it, attached is the 5/6/98 Star News article on the proposed School Street improvement project. I have met with Dr. Flannery and he has advised me that the School Board had some general questions regarding the cost of the project, the interest rate on the assessment roll for the project, and the "fairness" for why no properties on the south side of the road were being assessed. The school understands that even if the south properties were assessed that they may not see reductions in their assessments. As the Council may recall, at our joint meeting with the School Board it was suggested that the school pay half the cost of this proposed improvement project and the City pick up the other half. If this approach would have been acceptable to the school, then the project could have proceeded in 1998 with no project public hearings and no assessment public hearings. If the City is to pursue assessing property owners to the south, then these two public hearing steps would be required and this would push completion of the project out until the very end of the 1998 construction year. In fact, it could even require that the project be completed in 1999 if some property owners appealed their assessments and the City waited the 30 days to determine if the people appealing their assessments followed up with the appropriate filing of notices. On the positive side however, it looks like School Street will be open and passable throughout the construction project and it may be that construction in October would not be a major inconvenience to the School District. Without the agreement and support of the School District, public hearings are required for this project and this may mean that we should be looking at a 1999 project. If the City is to consider assessments on the south side of the street, then we would have to look at assessments on a front footage basis for 13065 Orono Parkway · P.O. Box 490 · Elk River, MN 55330 · TDD & Phone: (612) 441-7420 · Fax: (612) 441-7425