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Motion by Mayor Gamec and seconded by Councilmember Haas Steffen to direct the City Attorney and the City Engineer to meet with the property owners and bring a proposal to resolve this situation back to the City Council meeting of May 27. Motion carried. Voting Yes: Mayor Gamec, Councilmembers Haas Steffen, Beahen, Beyer and Zimmerman. Voting No: None. Case #3: Utility Connection Requirements for 6710 Highway 10 Finance Officer Hart explained that the property located at 6710 Highway #10 is located in what has been known as the "special utility district". This area was established as the result of the extension of municipal sewer and water in 1987. The assessable costs, which were not assessed directly to the benefiting properties, were allowed to be placed on the utility billing as service availability surcharge (SAS) at the time of connection. These charges appear quarterly on the utility bill, with accrued interest, for a period of 10 years. Properties within the special district were required to connect to the City's utility system upon failure of existing systems, ' upon the transfer of the property (sale) or within two years, under the City's connection policy. Ms. Hart continued that it was brought to staff's attention last fall that this property changed owners in May, 1996. This information was obtained directly from the new owner when an attempt to collect delinquent alarm charges was made. The new owner was notified in November, 1996, that it would be necessary for this property to connect to City services. Under the connection policy, this property should have been connected during 1989, and the owner was requested to meet with the City officials to determine how the alarm and trunk charges would be satisfied. Ms. Hart sent another letter to the property owner earlier this month again asking for a meeting to discuss the issue of connecting to City utility services. No response has been received. Ms. Hart reported that this policy has been enforced on at least two occasions within the last three years. When Blue Line Collision and what is now known as McKay's Rapid Auto changed hands, each property connected to City utility services and opted to have the charges placed on their utility billing. There are 14 properties that have elected to utilize the SAS charge to pay the utility trunk charges. Motion by Councilmember Haas Steffen and seconded by Councilmember Beahen to direct City Attorney Goodrich to initiate legal action to enforce the utility connection policy as it pertains to the property located at 6710 Highway # 10. Motion carried. Voting Yes: Mayor Gamec, Councilmembers Haas Steffen, Beahen, Beyer and Zimmerman. Voting No: None. Case #4: Implementation of Chapter 8 of the Charter City Administrator Schroeder reminded Council that discussions of implementing Chapter 8 of the Charter included discussion about a "due on sale" clause. He presented two ordinances, one that was presented at the last meeting and the other is the same but has a provision that addresses this "due on sale" discussion. Staff is requesting additional direction or the introduction of one of the ordinances. City Council/April 22, 1997 Page 8 of 18