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improvement, the Council will be asked to order the projects at the April 24, 2007 meeting. It is anticipated that contracts will be awarded at the May 22, 2007 Council meeting and work will be performed during June through July. Final costs will be presented at the assessment hearing on September 25, 2007. Residents wishing to pay the assessment for the work will'have until November 1, 2007 to pay the assessed amount to the City. Afterward the City will certify the assessment to Anoka County to be collected with interest on the property tax statements over the specified number of years (three years for sealcoats and ten years for overlays). Citizen Input There was none. Motion by Councilmember Elvig, seconded by Councilmember Olson, to close the public hearing. Motion carried. Voting Yes: Mayor Gamec, Councilmembers Elvig, Olson, Jeffrey, Look, and Strommen. Voting No: Councilmember Dehen. The public hearing was closed at 7:35 p.m. Council Business Mayor Gamec called the regular City Council meeting back to order at 7:35 p.m. City Engineer Jankowski indicated the projects will be presented to the Council to order at the April 24, 2007 City Council meeting. Councilmember Dehen stated he is not sure that he agrees with the assessment for the sealcoat and overlay. He feels that this should be part of the general fund and city functions of repairing roads and sealcoating as part of the City's duties. To ask the citizens to pay another assessment in the amount of 50% he thinks is kind of a way to backdoor them on getting them to pay an additional tax for that service. He is not convinced that the overlays and seal coats will increase the value of these properties in order to apply assessments. He would like it stated for the record that he does not agree with special assessments on the overlays and sealco~ts. Mayor Gamec stated the City started this assessment policy a long time ago. They have looked several times at going away from the policy, but the problem they run into is there are still people paying assessments from previous projects, which have created a round-about situation. It is difficult as to where to stop the assessments and the people that were assessed in the past would want to be reimbursed. This has been a real problem, but the Council can review the concerns again. At this time they would need to continue with the way the program is currently done. Councilmember Look questioned if this ordinance will be adopted tonight. City Engineer Jankowski explained this is a special assessment project with specific steps to be followed. The first step is to hold a public hearing. Typically, based upon testimony, changes could be directed City Council / February 13, 2007 Page 7 of 25