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Tim Himmer From: Tim Himmer Sent: Monday, December 19, 2011 10:05 AM To: 'Gary Smith' Cc: CM McGlone; Mayor Ramsey; Brian Olson Subject: RE: Garnet Street NW Follow Up Flag: Follow up Flag Status: Flagged Categories: Green Category Thanks for your feedback Gary. I'll make sure to include this information in the Council case when this item is brought forward to work session (hopefully in early January). I just wanted to clarify one item that you brought up below — utilities are not paid for by City tax dollars; a separate enterprise fund exists for both the sanitary sewer and water utilities. These funds generate money from development fees and the utility users that are connected to the system, no general tax dollars are used for utility improvements. As discussed at the meeting, there is also a stormwater utility that generates funds from all residents (quarterly charge on your utility bill) to correct drainage issues throughout the City. To date I have heard from 6 (out of 13 potential assessable) property owners on this street • 4 at the open house that said they would like to wait for the franchise fee (if that were to occur) before repairing/replacing the road • 1 said we should fix the road the right way, regardless of cost, and be done with it once & for all • 1 said they were still undecided and they would be collecting additional information before ultimately deciding how to proceed City charter says a project can be initiated by residents, with a petition received by 35% of assessable property owners. The City can also initiate a project by Council direction. In either scenario, the affected property owners can counter - petition the improvement if more than 50% oppose the project. As usually, I'm available to discuss this matter and/or answer questions that you may have so feel free to contact me at any time. Thank again, and have a great holiday season. Tim Himmer City Engineer City of Ramsey 7550 Sunwood Drive NW Ramsey, MN 55303 (763) 433-9893 thimmer@ci. ramsey.m n. us From: Gary Smith f mailto:smithgr46@ yahoo.com] Sent: Sunday, December 18, 2011 9:49 PM To: Tim Himmer Cc: CM McGlone; Mayor Ramsey; smithgr46@yahoo.com Subject: Garnet Street NW Hi Tim, Thanks for having a meeting with the residents on Garnet street even though only 4 out of 13 residents showed up. The information you shared with us was helpful with regards to what to do with our street. It was pretty much unanimous amongst us to wait for the franchise fee before rebuilding our street. I am sending this to council member McGlone and Mayor Ramsey since they represent our ward and the city. Since our meeting I started to think why would the city want to put city sewer, water, and curbs and gutter on our street so that people could divide their properties and hook up to city sewer and water somewhere in the 1