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City of Columbia Heights
City Council
SPECIAL ASSESSMENT LEVY HEARING
OCTOBER 5, 2015
6:00 P.M.
THE FOLLOWING ARE THE MINUTES FOR THE SPECIAL ASSESSMENT MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL HELD AT
6:00 PM ON MONDAY OCTOBER 5, 2015 IN THE CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS, CITY HALL, 590 40TH AVENUE N.E.,
COLUMBIA HEIGHTS, MINNESOTA
Roll Call /Pledge of Allegiance
Mayor Peterson called the meeting to order at 6:00 PM
Present: Mayor Peterson, Councilmembers Schmitt, Nawrocki and Murzyn, Jr.
Absent: Councilmember Williams
Also Present: Walt Fehst -City Manager, Kevin Hansen - Public Works Director, Kathy Young- Assistant City
Engineer, Barb Thomas - Assessing Clerk, and Katie Bruno - Council Secretary.
Resolution 2015 -74, being a Resolution Levying and Adopting the Assessment for 2015 Street Seal Coat
Improvement, Project 1301
Director Hansen gave an overview of the project. The final assessment rates are the same as proposed
at the Public Improvement Hearing. The original assessment notices were noticed with an interest rate
of 6 %, Hansen noted in the past, Council has decreased that to 4.5 %.
Motion by Councilmember Schmitt, seconded by Councilmember Murzyn, Jr. to close the Public Hearing
and waive the reading of Resolution 2015 -74, there being ample copies available to the public. All Ayes.
Motion by Councilmember Schmitt, seconded by Councilmember Murzyn, Jr. to adopt Resolution 2015-
74, being a resolution levying and adopting the assessment for 2015 Zone 7A Street Seal Coat
Improvement Project 1301, with an interest rate of 4.5 %.
Motion by Councilmember Nawrocki to reduce the interest rate to 3 %. Motion failed for lack of a
second.
Motion by Councilmember Schmitt, seconded by Councilmember Murzyn, Jr. to adopt Resolution 2015-
74, being a resolution levying and adopting the assessment for 2015 Zone 7A Street Seal Coat
Improvement Project 1301, with an interest rate of 4.5 %. All Ayes, Motion Carried.
Meeting adjourned at 6:09 PM
Respectively Submitted,
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Katie Bruno,
City Clerk /Council Secretary
RESOLUTION 2015 -74
A resolution of the City Council for the City of Columbia Heights, Minnesota,
WHEREAS, the City Council of Columbia Heights is adopting the assessment roll according to the City
Charter for the following local improvements and determining that said improvements have been made
and ratifying and conforming all other proceedings, heretofore had: Special Assessment numbered 2015 -
Z7 -01 -001: Seal Coat on 5th Street from 37th Avenue to 38th Avenue' 3 8th Avenue from 5th Street to dead
end, 38th Avenue from cu) de sac to Madison Place, 38th Avenue from Madison Place to dead end, 38th
Avenue from dead end to Quincy Street, 38th Place from Madison Street to dead end, Madison Street from
37th Avenue to 38th Avenue, Lookout Place from Summit Street to Proft Place, and Summit Street from
Lookout Place to 5th Street, all in project 1301; and,
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Columbia Heights, Minnesota, met at 6:00 o'clock p.m. on the
5th day of October, 2015, in the City Council Chambers, 590 40th Avenue NE, Columbia Heights,
Minnesota, being the time and place set when and where all persons interested could appear and be
heard by the Council with respect to benefits, and to the proportion of the cost of making the local
improvements above described, a notice of such hearing having been heretofore duly published as
required by law, and a notice mailed to each property owner of record, stating the proposed amount of
the assessment; and,
WHEREAS, this Council has heretofore estimated and fixed the cost of such local improvements and has
prepared an assessment roll therefore,
Now, therefore, in accordance with the foregoing, and all ordinances and regulations of the City of
Columbia Heights, the City Council of the City of Columbia Heights makes the following:
FINDINGS OF FACT
Section 1. That this Council does hereby adopt the aforesaid assessment roll for local improvements
known and described as "Zone 7 Seal Coat" numbered 2015 -Z7 -01 -001, Project 1301, a
copy of which is attached hereto and made a part hereof.
Section 2: That this Council hereby finds and determines that each of the lots and parcels of land
enumerated in said assessment roll was and is especially benefited by such improvement in
an amount not less than the amount set opposite in the column headed "Actual
Assessment Amounts ". And this Council further finds and determines that the proper
proportion of the cost of such improvements to be specially assessed against such lot or
parcel of land is the amount set opposite the description of each such lot or parcel of land
respectively in said assessment roll.
Section 3: That said assessments may be paid in part or in full without interest on or before 4:30 p.m.
on November 4th, 2015. Any unpaid amount will be certified to Anoka County for
collection with the real estate taxes beginning with the taxes payable in the year 2016. The
annual principal installments, together with 4.5% interest accrued on the unpaid balance
are due and payable with the real estate taxes for a period of one year as designated on the
assessment roll.
Section 4: That this Council did hereby determine and re- determine to proceed with said
improvement, does ratify and confirm all other proceedings heretofore had in regard to
this improvement, and said improvement shall hereafter be known and numbered as Local
Improvement numbered 2015 -Z7 -01 -001, Project 1301.
Section 5: This resolution shall take effect immediately upon its passage.