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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING #01'1i CITY OF RAMSEY ANOKA COUNTY STATE OF MINNESOTA TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: Notice is hereby given that the Ramsey City Council will meet at 7:00 p.m., Tuesday, September 25, 2001, at Ramsey Fire Station No. 2, 15050 Armstrong Blvd. to pass upon the pro- posed assessment for Improvement Project 01-11, which is the Sealcoating of Hwy 10 Ramsey and Hauser Additions. The amount to be specially assessed against any particular lot, piece or parcel of land is $325.68. Affected property owners may, at any time between September 25 and November 2, 2001 (prior tO certifichtion of the assessment to thi~ Anoka County Auditor), pay the entire assessment on such property with interest accrued to the date of payment, to the City (~f Ramsey. No interest shall be charged if the entire assessment is paid within 30 days from the adoption of the assessment, whi.ch is anticipated to be September 25, 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 December 31 of the nex~c 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 6.5 percent per year. The right 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 $325.68: 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 objection 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 amounf of'a proposed individual as~essmenl~ 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 niay testify by narrative or by examination, and by the introduction of exhibits. After .such wit- ness has testified, the contesting party 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. 5) The entire proceedings will be recorded. : 6)~At the close of the,presentation of , evidence, the objector may make a final presentation to the Council based on the evidence 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 435.195, and Ramsey City Code Chapter 4.60.18, the City Council may d~fer the payment of this special assessment for any persOn(s) that fit the guidelir)es listed in Section 4.60.18 Subd. 5 of the Ramsey City Code. When a deferment of the special assessment has been grante~l and is terminated for any reason provided in these laws, all amounts accumulated, including applica- ble interest, will be due. Any assessed property owner meeting the require- ments of, the~e 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 sen/- lng notice of the appeal upon the Mayor, or City Administrator 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 sen/- ice upon the Mayor or City Administrator. Steven J. Jankowski City Engineer Dated: August 28, 2001 abcdefg hijklm nopqrstuvwxyz Published in' Anoka County Union September 7, 2001 PRINTER'S AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION STATE OF MINNESOTA ) $$ County of Anoka ) Peter G. Bodley, being duly sworn, on oath says that he is the managing editor of thc 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, (#01-11) 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 ^ 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 · NOTARY PUBLIC - MINNESOTA My Commission Expires 1-31-2005~ RATE INFORMATION (1) Lowest classified rate paid by commercial users for comparable space (2) Maximum rate allowed by law for the above matter (3) Rate actually charged for the above matter $10.75 (Line, word, or inch rate) $10.75 (Line, word, or inch rate) $7.65 (Line, word, or inch rate)