CITY OF BIG LAKE

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

FOR ASSESSMENT OF ST2024-1 STREET PROJECT

Notice is hereby given that the Big Lake City Council will meet in the City Council Chambers located at 160 Lake Street North, Big Lake, Minnesota at 6:00 p.m. on November 13, 2024 to consider, and possibly adopt the proposed assessment for the street improvements in the following areas:

Harrison Drive – Tarrytown Road to Liberty Lane; 

Independence Drive – Harrison Drive to Liberty Lane; 

Liberty Lane – Independence Drive to Harrison Drive; and

Justice Place – Harrison Drive to approximately 70 feet east.

Improvements include construction of drainage improvements, sidewalk repairs, concrete curb and gutter, base repairs, milling, bituminous pavement and miscellaneous work.

Adoption by the City Council of the proposed assessment against abutting property may occur at the hearing.

Such assessment is proposed to be payable in equal installments extending over a period of 10 years and will bear interest at a rate of 4.00 percent per annum from the date of the adoption of this assessment resolution. To the first installment shall be added interest on the entire assessment from the date of this resolution until December 31, 2024. To each subsequent installment, when due, shall be added interest for one year on all unpaid installments. The installments will be added to the property owner’s property taxes.

The owner of any property so assessed may, at any time prior to certification of the assessment to the county auditor, pay the whole of the assessment on such property, with interest accrued to the date of payment, to the City Finance Director, except that no interest shall be charged if the entire assessment is paid within 30 days from the adoption of this resolution; and he/she may, at any time thereafter, pay to the City Finance Director the entire amount of the assessment remaining unpaid, with interest accrued to December of the year in which such payment is made. Such payment must be made before November 15 or interest will be charged through December 31 of the next succeeding year.

If property owner does not prepay the assessment before December 1, 2024, the rate of interest that will apply is 4.00 percent. The right to partially prepay the assessment is also available prior to certification of the assessment to the county. The proposed assessment roll is on file for public inspection at the City Clerk’s office. The total amount of the proposed assessment is $172,410.46.

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, 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, 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 Finance Director on 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: 10/26/24, 11/02/24.)