CITY OF BIG LAKE

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

FOR ASSESSMENT OF DEMOLITION COST

Notice is hereby given that the Big Lake City Council will meet at 6:00 p.m. on November 13, 2024, at Big Lake City Hall located at 160 Lake St N, Big Lake, MN 55309, to consider adopting the proposed assessment for the cost of the razing and removal of all hazardous conditions at the property located at 421 Eagle Lake Rd N, Big Lake, MN pursuant to Sherburne County District Court Order filed on September 15, 2013, in court file no. 71-CV-23-94, in the amount of $24,990.00. In addition, you are hereby notified that the City Council will consider authorizing the certification of the City’s costs to enforce the Order to raze and removal hazardous conditions in the amount of $20,706.79, which shall be referred to as the City’s Expense Account. Adoption by the council of the proposed assessment and the certification of the Expense Account may occur at the hearing. The total amount of the proposed Special Assessment and the Expense Account is $45,696.79. 

The following is the legal description of the area proposed to be assessed:

The North Half of Lot Eleven (N1/2 of 11) and all of Lot Twelve (12), Block Four (4), in Fairoaks Addition to the Village of Big Lake in Government Lot Four (4), Section Nineteen (19) Township Thirty-three (33), Range Twenty-seven (27), in Sherburne County, Minnesota (Parcel identification number: 65-00412-0445).

Such assessment is proposed to be payable in a five (5) annual installment and will bear interest at a rate of three (3%) percent, which will be collected with property taxes, beginning with the 2025 tax year. To each subsequent installment, when due, shall be added interest for one year on all unpaid installments. 

Under Minn. Stat. §§ 435.193 to 435.195, the City Council may, in its discretion, defer the payment of this special assessment for any homestead property owned by a person 65 years of age or older, one retired by virtue of a permanent and total disability, or a member of the National Guard or other reserves ordered to active military service for whom it would be a hardship to make the payments. When deferment of the special assessment has been granted and is terminated for any reason provided in that law and applicable city resolution or ordinance all amounts accumulated plus applicable interest become due. Any assessed property owner meeting the requirements of this law may, within 30 days of the confirmation of the assessment, apply to the city clerk for the prescribed form for such deferral of payment of this special assessment on his/her property. 

An owner may appeal an assessment to district court pursuant to Minn. Stat. § 429.081 by serving notice of the appeal upon the mayor or clerk of the city within 30 days after the adoption of the assessment and filing such notice with the district court within ten days after service upon the mayor or clerk.

/s/ Deb Wegeleben, Finance Director

City of Big Lake

(Published in the Patriot: 11/02/24.)