Memo- Misc Assessment Appeals & RecommendationsCity of Hopkins
Memorandum
To: Honorable Mayor and City Council
Copy:
From: James Gessele, Engineering Superintendent
Date: October 1, 1998
Subject: Miscellaneous Assessment
Appeals and Recommendations
ENGINEERING
In item # 30 of Exhibit A Council should note that the total amount to be assessed is in
error. The sum should read $166.81 and Council can take note of this correction in its
motion to adopt the assessment roll resolution.
To date one appeal has been submitted and concerns billing for a false fire alarm at 1
West St. Albans Road. The appeal is attached to this memo and sketches the
background of this issue. Staff can add that the City sent its first invoice to the then
property owner in November 1997. A second invoice was sent to the same name in
April 1998. A third invoice was sent to a new owner of record in June 1998. In all
cases there was no return of undelivered mail or a response from the owner.
The assessing office was not aware that this property had a lien of sorts against it until
August of 1998 when the miscellaneous assessment roll was being gathered. The
assessment office also does not recall being contacted by a title search or closing
company about liens or pending assessments at the time the property was being sold.
Under these circumstances staff is recommending that the appeal be granted. The
assessed amount of $300.00 found in item # 1 of Exhibit A should be stricken from the
assessment roll.
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Do you wish to address the City Council at the hearing?
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Please complete this form if you intend to appeal to the
council to defer, revise or cancel your assessment. This
form must be completed and filed with the City Clerk no
later than the close of the City Council assessment hearing.
Your request will become part of the public hearing record.
I request that the City Council consider (check one):
.( ) *Deferral of assessment (retired by virtue of
permanent disability)
b. (- ) *Senior Citizen deferment (over 65 years of age)
c. Cancellation of assessment
d. ( ) Revision of assessment
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* You will need to fill out a special form for deferral of
assessment and provide the city verification of your income
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CITY OF HOPKINS
HENNEPIN COUNTY, MINNESOTA
RESOLUTION NO. 98 -71
ADOPTION OF THE ASSESSMENT ROLL
1998 MISCELLANEOUS AND CERTAIN PRIVATE
IMPROVEMENTS SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS
WHEREAS, pursuant to property notice duly given as required by law, the City Council
has met and heard and passed upon all objections to the proposed assessment for miscellaneous
projects, delinquent utility bills, and delinquent invoices, all as more fully set forth and described
in Exhibit A as attached to this resolution, and has amended such proposed assessment as it
deems just,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF HOPKINS,
MINNESOTA:
1. Such proposed assessment, as amended, a copy of which is attached hereto and made a
part hereof, is hereby accepted and shall constitute the special assessment against the lands
named therein, and each tract of land therein included is hereby found to be benefited by the
proposed improvement in the amount of the assessment levied against it.
2. Such assessments shall be payable in equal, annual installments extending over the
periods of years set forth in Exhibit A, the first of the installments to be payable on or after the
first Monday in January, 1999. Any deferred installments shall bear interest at the rate set forth
in said Exhibit A from the date of the adoption of this assessment resolution. To the first
installment shall be added interest on the entire assessment from October 6, 1998 until December
31, 1999. To each subsequent installment when due shall be added interest for one year on all
unpaid installments.
3. It is hereby declared to be the intention of the Council to reimburse itself in the future for
the portion of the cost of this improvement paid for from municipal funds by levying additional
assessments, on notice and hearing as provided for the assessments herein made, upon any
properties abutting on the improvement but not made, upon any properties abutting on the
improvement by not herein assessed for the improvement, when changed conditions relating to
such properties make such assessment feasible.
4. To the extent that this improvement benefits nonabutting properties which may be served
by the improvement when one or more later extensions or improvements are made, but which are
not herein assessed, therefore, it is hereby declared to be the intention of the Council, as
authorized by Minnesota Statutes Section 420.051, to reimburse the City by adding any portion
of the cost so paid to the assessments levied for any of such later extension or improvements.
5. The clerk shall forthwith transmit a certified duplicate of this assessment to the County
Auditor to be extended on the property tax lists of the County, and such assessments shall be
collected and paid over in the same manner as other municipal taxes.
Adopted by the City Council of the City of Hopkins this 6th day of October, 1998.
ATTEST:
Terry Obermaier, City Clerk
By
Charles D. Redepenning, Mayor