NOTICE OF HEARING ON THE PROPOSED ASSESSMENT FOR UNPAID WATER, SEWER, STREET LIGHT AND STORM WATER CHARGES NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN That the City Council will meet at 5:00 P.

Published October 16, 2019 at 2:01 AM

NOTICE OF HEARING
ON THE PROPOSED ASSESSMENT
FOR UNPAID WATER, SEWER, STREET LIGHT AND
STORM WATER CHARGES
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN That the City Council will meet at 5:00 P.M. on Tuesday, November 12, 2019, in the Council Chambers of the City Administration Building, 1025 Roosevelt Avenue, Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, to consider and possibly adopt the proposed assessment for unpaid, water, sewer, street light and storm water charges. Adoption by the Council of the proposed assessment may occur at the hearing.
Such assessment is proposed to be payable by the first Monday in January, 2020, and will bear interest at the rate of five and a half (5.5%) percent.
You may at anytime, prior to certification of the assessment to the County Auditor, pay the entire assessment on such property to the City Administrator. No interest shall be charged if the entire assessment is paid by December 1, 2019.
The proposed assessment roll is on file for public inspection at the City Administrator's Office. The total amount of the proposed assessment is $2,318.64. Written or oral objections will be considered at the meeting. 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 Council may, upon such notice, consider any objection to the amount of a proposed individual assessment at an adjourned meeting upon such further notice to the affected property owners as it deems advisable.
Under Minnesota Statutes 435.193 to 435.195, the Council may, in its discretion, defer the payment of this special assessment for any homestead property owned by a person 65 years of age or older for whom it would be a hardship to make the payments. When deferment of the special assessment has been granted and is terminated for any reason provided in that law, all amounts accumulated plus applicable interest become due. Any assessed property owner meeting the requirements of this law and the resolution adopted under it may, within 30 days of the confirmation of the assessment, apply to the City Administrator for the prescribed form for such deferral of payment of this special assessment on their property.
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 may testify by narrative or by examination, and by the introduction of exhibits. After each witness has testified, the contesting party will be allowed to ask questions. This procedure will be repeated with each witness until neither side has further questions.
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 questioning of the City's witnesses will be followed 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 evidence or testimony presented to the Council.
5. The entire proceedings will be tape-recorded.
6. At the close of 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 proposed assessment at the hearing.
An owner may appeal an assessment to district court pursuant to Minnesota Statutes Section 429.081 by serving notice of the appeal upon the Mayor and City Administrator of the City within 30 days after the adoption of the assessment and filing such notice with the district court within ten days after service upon the Mayor or City Administrator.
Dated at Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, this 15th day of October, 2019.
Kelcey Klemm
City Administrator
Detroit Lakes, Minnesota
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