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Howard R. Green Qompany Item # 6.8. Apdl 15, 2003 File: 818980J-0564 The Honorable Mayor and City Council City of Elk River 13065 Orono Parkway Elk River, MN 55330 RE: 2003 PAVEMENT REHABILITATION IMPROVEMENT AUTHORIZATION TO PREPARE ASSESSMENT ROLL Dear Council Members: At last week's City Council meeting, the Council adopted a resOlution authorizing the Advertisement for Bids for the 2003 Pavement Rehabilitation project. There was a memo included in that packet from Lcd Johnson, Finance Director, laying out her concems about potential legislative actions that may make it difficult for the City to fund this project in 2003. In keeping with the recommendation to move forward on the project and have it ready to proceed to construction once the legislature takes final action on proposed bills regarding levy limits, we are suggesting the City Council adopt the attached resolution ordedng the preparation of the assessment roll and setting the Assessment Headng date for Monday, May 12, 2003. As you will recall, the feasibility study for this project recommends assessment rates at $5,000 per residential equivalent unit. Therefore, construction bids are not necessary to begin work on the assessment roll preparation. At the public headng held in February 2003, there was a question raised regarding properties that are included in the 2003 Pavement Rehabilitation project but may have been assessed for the reconstruction of Main Street in 1989. We have researched that file and found that there are six properties in the 2003 Pavement Rehabilitation program that were also assessed in the 1989 Main Street reconstruction. All six are shown on the attached exhibit. Three of these properties are residential in nature and are at the comer of Morton Avenue and Norfolk Avenue. The assessments for these properties in 1989 range from a Iow of $819 to a high of $1,638. The reason for the difference is that in 1989 the assessments were based on $13 per front footage for residential property. The other three properties consist of Handke School, the Handke School playground area, and United Methodist Church. These three properties, which are double frontage properties with access from Main Street and Fourth Street, were assessed between $858 on the Iow end to $7,881 on the high end. City staff has reviewed these properties, and it is our recommendation that all six of them stay in the 2003 Pavement Rehabilitation project as originally proposed. It is staff's opinion that the three residential properties were assessed at a relatively modest amount in 1989, which is approximately 15 years ago, and the portion of the assessed amount for the 2003 Pavement Rehabilitation project is only approximately one-third the total cost. With the school and church property, staff feels that they cleady have benefit from both Fourth Street and Main Street and should be asked to pay assessments on both. Ltr-O41503-Council 1326 Energy Park Drive · St. Paul, MN 55108 · 651/644-4389 fax 651/644-9446 toll free 888/368-4389