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I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I CASE # 3 UTILITY CONNECTION REQUIREMENTS FOR 6710 HIGHWAY 10 By: Jessie Hart, Finance Officer Notification: This case is being submitted to City Attorney Bill Goodrich for review and comment prior to the Council meeting. A copy has also been submitted to the property owner at 6710 Jflighway 10. Background: The property located at 6710 Highway 10 is located in what has been known as the ~:special utility district." This area was established as the result of the extension of municipal sewer and water in 1987. The assessable costs, which were not assessed directly to the benefiting properties, were allowed to be placed on the utility billing as service availability surcharge [SAS] at the time of connection. These charges appear quarterly on the utility bill, with accrued interest, for a period of 10 years [which is consistent with normal assessment procedures]. Properties within the special district were required to connect to the City's utility system upon failure of existing systems, ,~pon the transfer of the property [sale] or within two-years under the City's connection policy. It was brought to our attention last fall that this property "changed owners" in May of 1996. This information was obtained directly from the new owner when an attempt to collect delinquent alarm charges was made. A copy of this correspondence is attached. As a result of this new information, the current owner was notified in November of 1996 that it would be necessary for this property to connect to City services. Under the connection policy, this property should have been connected during 1989 [within two~ years of availability] and the owner was requested to meet with City officials to determine how the alarm and trunk charges would be satisfied. No response was received to this correspondence. A letter was again forwarded to the property owner earlier this month again asking for a meeting to discuss the issue of connecting to City utility services. As of the writing of' this case, there has been no response to this latest correspondence. The policy has been enforced on at least two occasions within the last three years. When Blue Line Collision and what is now known as McKay's Rapid Auto changed hands, each property connected to City utility services and opted to have the charges placed on their utility billing. As of the writing of this case, there are 14 properties [two of which are residential] that have elected to utilize the SAS charge to pay the utility trunk charges.