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ASSISTING INDIVIDUALS WITH HOOKUP CHARGES ~ro WATER AND SEWER UTILITIES RECEIVING AVAILABILITY FROM SUBDIVISION EXTENSIONS Preamble: Municipal sewer and water utilities represent a higher level of both treatment and monitoring thorn are afforded by individual on-site systems. In addition, the City has a significant invkstment in the infrastructure associated with these utilities and it is therefore in the best iht{rest of the utility to have as many available customers connected to these utilities thereb~ reducing costs for all of the utility customers. For this reason, the City has passed an ordihance requiring hookup to the system within two years of availability to the utility. This compulsqry hookup may cause property owners to incur costs which they may find a financial burd.~n. It is then appropriate that some mechanism allow such property owners to comply witli City ordinances, yet avoid unreasonable financial burdens. Policy: This policy shgll apply in cases where a property owner is subject to compulsory hookup to municipal se~ices due to the two year availability rule, with the exception that if the property own0r has replaced either the septic tank or drain field within a period of twelve months prior itu the sewer becoming available, the property owner shall receive an additional one !year extension to connect to the sewer utility. It is expecte residential In cases wh, consideratiol ten (10~ yea to the date assessments will extend i and levied ~ d tha( municipal water and sewer services will be extended into treas wherein the construction project was petitioned against. !re the property owner petitioned against the project, additional i shall l~e grltnted. If the private septic system is newer than rs? then the municipal connection requirement will be deferred m which the system reaches ten (10~ years of age. Any project ,ill be certified to the County as a City deferral. The deferral o the date of the connection requirement with interest accruing 'ter the first three (3) vears of the deferral period. It shall be the policy of the City of Ramsey to allow sewer and water hookup fees to be collected as a ;pecial assessment to the property, payable over a period no greater than ten years with iht :rest on the outstanding balance, as a courtesy to the property owner. The interest rate t~ be charged shall be set from time to time by resolution of the City Council. The owner sl~all sign a request for this hookup charge to be implemented as a special assessment an~ shall waive a right to a public hearing. Specific item~ eligible for consideration may include sewer and water trunk charges, the S.A.C. charg~ collected by the City and paid to the Metropolitan Waste Control Commission, ~and W.A.C. charges. Charges which shall be ineligible for consideration shall include !he cost of building re-plumbing, sewer and water laterals laid on private property and abandonment of private sewer and water utilities.