CITY OF BIG LAKE
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
FOR ASSESSMENT OF UNPAID CHARGE
You are hereby notified that the Big Lake City Council will hold public hearings in order to consider assessments for unpaid charges due to the City. The public hearings will be held in the Big Lake City Council Chambers located at 160 Lake Street on Wednesday, November 13, 2024 at or about 6:00 p.m.
Notices for these hearings have been mailed to past due accounts in the City of Big Lake. The notices indicate the past due charges are for water/sewer, and snow removal services provided by the City for their property. Residents have until Monday, November 18, 2024 to bring their accounts current. Any amount remaining unpaid will be certified to the Sherburne County Auditor for collection with the 2025 property taxes. If you decide not to prepay the assessment before the date given above, the rate of interest that will apply is 6%, plus a $20 assessment fee payable in one installment.
Written or oral objections will be considered at the meeting. No appeal may be taken as to the amount of an assessment adopted pursuant to Minn. Stat. § 429.061, subd. 2, unless a written objection signed by the affected property owner, is filed with the City Administrator prior to the hearing or presented to the presiding officer at the hearing. An owner may appeal an assessment to the District Court pursuant to Minn. Stat. § 429.081 by serving notice of appeal upon the Mayor or City Administrator of the City of Big Lake with in thirty (30) days after the adoption of the assessment and filing such notice with the District Court within ten (10) days after service upon the Mayor or City Administrator.
Under City Code Section 730 and Minnesota Statutes 435.193 to 435.195, the Council may, in its discretion, defer the payment of the special assessment for any homestead property owned by a person 65 years of age or older or retired by virtue of a permanent and total disability. When deferment of the special assessment has been granted and is terminated for any reason provided in that law, all amounts become due. Any assessed property owner meeting the requirements of this law and the ordinance or resolution adopted under it may, within thirty (30) days of confirmation of the assessment, apply to the City Administrator for the prescribed form for such deferral payment of this special assessment on his/her property.
/s/ Deb Wegeleben, Finance Director
City of Big Lake
(Published in the Patriot: 11/02/24.)