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districts and find that the whole of Ramsey has a problem, who makes up the <br />difference? <br /> <br />Mr. Hartley - Improvements within a taxing district would be paid for from <br />within that taxing district. <br /> <br />Lynn Ackerman - What happens if the cost is higher than expected? <br /> <br />Mr. Raatikka - The levy would be increased. <br /> <br />Walter Scroggin - Sunfish Lake Blvd. - Thirty years ago we were going through a <br />dry cycle; these things go in cycles. I hate to see the city saddle the people <br />with bills to solve something that will take care of itself. Developers have <br />been building where they should not have been building. <br /> <br />Barbara Graen - If we go with different taxing districts and improvements are <br />made according to a district's needs; in years to come our property taxes could <br />be a couple hundred dollars more than our neighbor who is in another storm <br />sewer district; this will make our property less saleable. Storm sewers should <br />be a city wide cost. <br /> <br />Don O'Connor - 15311 Iguana - Heard conjecture that may just Phase I of a <br />system will take care of the problems and there will be no need to develop the <br />system any further. I agree that the whole city should be involved. <br /> <br />Bernie Vevea - 14007 Azurite - Industrial Park - I am not a resident of Ramsey <br />but I own property in the Industrial Park. There is a culvert going under <br />Azurite; another culvert under Industrial Avenue; it is ditched and my property <br />drains into a pond holding area. Do I need storm sewer? Yes, I need storm <br />sewer. The problem landowners in the Industrial and Commercial area have is a <br />tax problem. Our real estates taxes are 6 times more than homesteaded <br />residential on every $1,000 of assessed value. The tax burden is on commercial <br />and industrial. If storm sewer goes in and we are assessed, that assessment <br />will go on top of our already 6 times higher tax bill. Then the city assessor <br />will come and determine our property value has increased because of the storm <br />sewer improvements and our property taxes will be increased even more. I made <br />a choice to locate my manufacturing company in Ramsey in 1972; it was not a <br />poor choice. Ramsey is having growing pains. Whose fault is it that we are <br />having these problems? It is probably the peoples fault because we are all <br />here. In order to get this community moving, we have to come up with the tools <br />that we need to be able to take care of the problems in the future. The tool <br />for the drainage problem is to set up these districts. It will cost me more <br />money than you but that Industrial Park will not grow without improvements. <br />Improvements to that Industrial Park would attract more businesses to the area <br />to ease the tax burden on existing businesses and increase the tax base so that <br />residential properties can retain homestead rights. <br /> <br />Jack Ippel - 16443 Jasper - This subject of this hearing did not come out of <br />the blue; last Fall there were a lot of people with flooded basements, etc. <br />Judging from the people present tonight, I assume that either the problem is <br />not as bad as what was represented last year or that when the people with the <br />problems found out they would have to pay to fix it decided it was not such a <br />big problem after all. Why aren't the people with the water problems here <br /> April 15, 1986 <br /> <br />Page 11 of 12 <br /> <br /> <br />