Notice of Hearing on Proposed Assessment

   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 8, 2023 to consider, and possibly adopt the proposed assessment for the street improvements in the following areas:

Improvements include construction of storm sewer, street lighting, sidewalks, water main, concrete curb and gutter, bituminous pavement and miscellaneous work. The improvements are located on:

Park Avenue – County Road 43 to Powell Street;

Vernon Street – Park Avenue to termini;

Chippewa Street – Hiawatha Avenue to termini;

Golf Street – Hiawatha Avenue to Lake View Lane;

Isanti Street – Hiawatha Avenue to Lake Ridge Drive;

Kasota Street – Hiawatha Avenue to termini;

Kenabec Street – Hiawatha Avenue to termini;

Waseca Street - Hiawatha Avenue to termini;

Winnebago Street - Hiawatha Avenue to termini;

Lake Ridge Drive – County 73 to Lake View Lane (east intersection);

Lake Ridge Drive – St. Andrews Lane to cul-de-sac;

Lake Ridge Drive – County Road 73 to County Road 81;

Lake View Lane – Lake Ridge Drive to Lake View Circle (cul-de-sac);

Lake View Circle – Lake View Lane to end of cul-de-sac;

Teal Street – Lake Ridge Drive to Loon Drive;

166th Street – Marketplace Drive to 201st Avenue; 

Norwood Drive – State Highway 25 to termini;

Aspen Circle – Fair Meadows Drive to cul-de-sac;

Brom Lane – Justice Place to Tarrytown Road;

Burlwood Circle – Fair Meadows Drive to cul-de-sac;

Fair Meadows Drive – 200 feet east of Burlwood Circle to Driftwood Circle;

Forest Road – Ormsbee Street to Eagle Lake Road;

Karen Lane – Muriel Drive to Marcia Drive;

Katrina Lane – Justice Place to Tarrytown Road;

Oak Lane – Corrine Drive to cul-de-sac;

Pleasant Avenue – Lake Street to Eagle Lake Road; 

Powell Street – Pleasant Avenue to termini;

Dundee Alcove – Highland Trail to termini;

Glasgow Bay – Highland Trail to termini; 

Highland Trail – County Road 73 to Highline Drive; 

Highland Bay – Highland Trail to termini; 

Inverness Way – Highland Trail (east intersection) to Highland Trail (west intersection);

Tartan Lane – Highline Drive to Highland Trail;

Tartan Lane – Highline Drive to Sterling Drive;

Blanding Court – Pond View Drive to termini;

Canvasback Street – Pond View Drive to Pond View Circle;

Drake Circle– Lake Ridge Drive (east intersection) to Lake Ridge Drive (west intersection);

Pond View Circle – Pond View Drive (east intersection) to Pond View Drive (west intersection);

Pond View Drive – Pond View Circle (east intersection) to Lake Ridge Drive;

Teal Street – Pond View Drive to Pond View Circle; 

Kilbirnie Road – Sterling Drive to Bluff Road;

St. Andrews Lane – Lake Ridge Drive to Sterling Drive;

Sterling Drive – Tartan Lane to Lake Ridge Drive;

City Hall parking lot improvements; and

Water main installation between 176th Street and 177th Street.

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 2.90 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 you decide not to prepay the assessment before December 1, 2023, the rate of interest that will apply is 2.90 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 $2,879,310.93.

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: 10/21/23, 10/28/23.)