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September I<amsey City Council City of Ramsey t 5153 Nowthen Blvd NW Ramscy, Mn 55303 q-2.7.05 gO.. Atto: Mayor and Council Members: l an} writing in regards to the public hearing scheduled for September 27, 2005 for the proposed assessments [br Seal Coating & Crack filling of Pondvale Estate and Pondvale Estates 2nd addition. Alier reviewing the amounts proposed to be assessed, I believe that those amounts need to be revised for the following reasons: I. The seal coating and crack filling that was performed in our development was less than adeqnatc. There are still holes in the road that have not been repaired. My understanding of the repairing o/' holes in asphalt was that the old asphalt needs to be saw cut out and then replaced with like thickness of ~,sphalt in order for the seal coat to adhere, which was not done in this case. There are still holes where they had been before. We have many low areas in our road which cause ice build up in the winter and those low al'cas are still there as well. 2. In 2003, a feasibility study was conducted for the installation of City Sewer and Water in Pondvale Estates and Pondvale Estates 2na addition. At that time, it was stated that because our roads were 17 years old, they would requke a complete overlay in the next 2 yrs. If our roads required a complete overlay, ..why only a seal coat at th/s point? (copy of the cover page and page pertaining to the overlay is a ttac hed). 3. Currently, a sketch plan has been submitted to the City Council for the field to the north of my development which proposes that Helium St. run through to Alpine Drive. If that sketch plan is approved and the road does run through, why would the City expect residents to pay for seal coating at this point? 4. Finally, the way the assessments were done I believe is unfair. In the past years, the residents o f Pondvale Estates and Pondvale Estates 2~a addition, all equally owned 3 lots. In the past few years, two o f those residents have dissolved lot lines, giving them only 2 lots instead of 3. Therefore, the method in which the assessments were calculated is somewhat unequal. Most of us'received 3 separate statements, except for the two that dissolved lot lines. Since they use the road as equally as the rest of the development, using the number of lots as the dividing factor in unfair. Why should I pay the assessment 3 times when another resident (who owns the same amount of land I do) only has to pay tw/ce? [ hope that the concerns that I have stated above will be addressed. I am unable to attend the hearing at 'l'uesdays' meeting but fee[ that these concerns are valid. Until the items above can be address I would hope that you would robie the determination of the final costs associated with the seal coating and crack filling of Pondvale Estates and Pondvale Estates 2~a addition. Pondvale Estate 2''a Addition.