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I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I cracks. Blacktop oonstruction was rushed and the oontractor should be held res~nsible. Ci tizen - Agreed that very 11 ttle prepuatory work was Cbne in Countryside Estates prior to blacktop oonstruction. Bob Bruce - Contacted City Engineer fran M1nnea~lis and he says sealooating is defini tely a maintenance i tern. If allowing for funds to cover sealcoating oosts was an oversight on Council's put, the ci tizens should not be expected to psy for the error. City Engineer Raatikka replied that the process has been that bonds were sold to cover just the oost of blacktop oonstruction and not sealooating. n>n Brown - n.ere was an agreenent that the Ci ty would take care of maintenance and this is what I told my neighbors when I peti tioned for blacktowing. Was not allowing enough funds to Cb so an oversight on the Ci ty' s p:lrt.? ColD'lcilmenber Cox stated that Mrs. Kenneth Beckman oontacted him and wanted it expressed at the hearing that she has the same ooncerns being expressed by her neighbors in Riverwood Bills. ColD'lci1member Reimann stated that not bonding eoou~ funds to cover the oost of sealooating was oot an oversi~t on Ramsey's psrt. Bids are let for actual street oonstruction only. In order to increase the streets budget eoough to oover the oost of sealooating, the Ci ty would have to increase pro~rty taxes and rather than eX> that the Ci ty chose to assess the benefitting pro};:erty owners. If the residents eX> oot want the assessnent, the roads will not be sealooated and oontinued deterioration will eventually require re-blacktowing; the Ci ty is trying to protect the invesbnent of the ci tizens. Bob Bruce - ColD'lcil has the ci tizens over a barrel; the roads are deteriorating and it was agreed that the City would take care of maintenance through taxes. ColD'lCi1member Reimann stated that property taxes will have to be increased if the ci tizens want sealooating to be included in the Ci ty budget; it has been Ramsey's p:lst ~licy to assess for sealooating. ColD'lcilmember Cox stated that when the City refers to maintenance, it is referring to snowplowing and repsiring IX>t:holes and cracks. Bob Bruce - Stated that last year it took him 6 JOOnths to finally get the City crew to even look at the roads in his area. ColD'lci1 never indicated that sealooating is not an as~ct of maintenance. ColD'lcilmEmber Cox explained that ini tially all developnents in Ramsey were wi th dirt roads lD'ltil the City required all new deve10pnents to have blacktowed streets. Many existing deve10pnents then wanted black towed streets and };:eti tioned for same. Because those people wanted blacktop and because Ramsey does not receive it's fair share of local cpverrrnent aids, a decision was made to assess benefitting pro~rty owners for the benefit. Counci1msnber Cox noted that if a citizen's taxes are $700 in Ramsey, the City only gets about $112.00 Mardl 25 I 1986 Page 3 of 5