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NO'~ICE OF PUBLIC HEARING #O1 46 ..' CITY OF RAMSEY ANOKA COUNTY STATE OF MINNESOTA TO WHOM IT MAY CONCFRN: Notice is hereby given that the Ramsey City Council will meet at 7:00 p.m., Tuesday, September 2.5, 2001, at Ramsey Fire Station No. 2, 1.50.50 · Armstrong Blvd. to pass upon the pro- posed assessment for Improvement Project 01-16, which is the Bituminous Overlay of High Point Subdivision. The amount to be-specially assessed against any particular lot, piece or parcel of land is $679.20. Affected property owners may, at any time between September 2.5 and November 2, 2001 (prior to certification of the assessment to the Anoka County Auditor), pay the entire assessment on such property with interest accrued tQ the date of payment, to the City of Ramsey, No interest shall be charged if the entire assessment is paid within 30 days from the adoption of the assessment, which is anticipated to be September 2.5, 2001, Affected property. owners may at any time thereafter pay to the City of Ramsey the entire amount of the assessment remaining unpaid, with interest accrued to Decerhber 31 of the · next succeeding year. If an affected prop- erty owner decides not to prepay the assessment before the date given above, the rate of interest that will-apply is 7.0 . percent per year. The rig'l~t to partially ~ prepay the assessment is not available. The proposed assessment roll is on file for public inspection at the City Administrator's office. The total amount of the proposed assessment is $ 679.20. Written or oral objections will be consid- ered at the hearing. No appeal may be taken as to the amount of an assessment unless a signed, written obiection is filed with the City Administrator prior to the · hearing or presented to the presiding officer at the hearing. The City Council may upon such notice consider· any objection to the amolJnt of a proposed individual assessment at an adjourned hearing upon such further notice to the affected property owners as it deems advisable. If an assessment is contested or there is an adjourned hearing, the following procedure will be followed; 1) The City will present its case first by calling witnesses who may testify by narrative or by examination, and by the introduction of exhibits. 'After such wit- ness has testified, the contesting path/ will be allowed to ask questions. This pro- cedure will be repeated with each wit- ,ness until neither side has further ques- tions. 2) After the City has presented all its evidence, the objector may call witnesses or present such testimony as the objector desires, The same procedure for ques- tioning of the City's witnesses will be fol- lowed with the objector's witnesses. 3) The objector may be represented by counsel. 4) Minnesota Rules of Evidence will not be strictly applied; however, 'they may be considered and argued to the Council as to the weight of items of evi- dence or testimony presented to the Council. S) The entire proceedings will be PRINTER'S AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION STATE OF MINNESOTA ) ss County of Anoka ) Peter G. Bodley, being duly sworn, on oath says that he is the managing editor of the newspaper known as the Anoka County Union, and has full knowledge of the facts which are stated below: (A) The newspaper has complied with all of the requirements constituting qualification as a qualified newspaper, as provided by Minnesota Statute 331A.02, 331A.07, and other applicable laws, as amended. (B) The printed NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING, (#01-16) which is attached was cut from the columns of said newspaper, and was printed and published once each week for one successive week; it was first published on Friday, the 7th day of September, 2001 and was thereafter printed and published on every Friday to and including Friday, the ........ day of ................ 2001, and printed below is a copy of the lower case alphabet from A to Z, both inclusive, which is hereby acknowledged as being the size and kind of type used in the composition and publication of the notice: abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz Managing Editor Subscribed and sworn to before me on this 7th day of September, 2001 Notary Public DIXIE L. MASON NOTARY PUBLIC- MINNESOTA My Commission ExpI~ ~-31-2005 RATE INFORMATION (I) Lowest classified rate paid by commercial users for comparable space $10.75 (Line, word, or inch rate) (2) Maximum rate allowed by law for the above matter $10.75 (Line, word, or inch rate) (3) Rate actually charged for the above matter $7.65 (Line, word, or inch rate) 6) At the close of the presentation of evidence, the objector may make a final presentation to the Council based on evi- dence and the law. No new evidence may be presented at this point. 7) The council may adopt the pro- posed assessment at the hearing. Under Minnesota Statutes, Sections 435.193 to 435.19,5, and Ramsey City Code Chapter 4.60.18, the City Council may defer the payment of this special assessment for any person(s) that fit the guidelines listed in Section 4.60.18 Subd. pS of the Ramsey City Code. When a deferment of the special assessment has ~ -' ~ -- been granted and is terminated for any eason provided in these laws, all mounts accumulated including applica- le interest, will be ~Jue. Any assessed roperty owner meeting the require- ments of these laws may, within 30 days of the confirmation of the assessment, apply to the City Administrator with the prescribed form for such deferral of pay- ment of this special assessment. An owner may appeal an assessment to District Court pursuant to Minnesota Statutes Section 429.081 and Chapter 4.60.10 of the Ramsey City Code by serv- in9 notice of the appeal upon the Mayor or City Administrato~ of the City within 30 days after the adoption of the assess- ment and filing such notice with the District Court within ten days after serv- ice upon the Mayor or City Administrator. Steven J. )ankowski City Engineer Dated: August 28, 2001 abcdefghijMmnopqrstuvwxyz Published in Anoka County Union September 7. 20Ol