06-55RESOLUTION 2006-55
RECEIVING PRELIMINARY REPORT AND
CALLING PUBLIC HEARING ON
QUEENS AVENUE NE IMPROVEMENTS OF 2006 (PROJECT #06-01)
WHEREAS, The City Council deems it necessary and expedient that the City of
Otsego, Minnesota, construct certain improvements to -wit: Queens Avenue NE in the
City as described in and in accordance with the preliminary plans and reports prepared by
Hakanson Anderson Assoc., Inc., consulting engineers; and
WHEREAS, The Council has been advised by the consulting engineers that said
Queens Avenue NE Improvements of 2006 are necessary, cost-effective, and feasible and
should best be made as proposed, and the consulting engineers' report to this effect has
heretofore been received by the Council, and filed with the City Clerk, and
WHEREAS, the statute provides that no such improvements shall be made until
the Council shall have held a public hearing on such improvements following mailed
notice and two publications in the official newspaper stating time and place of the
hearing, the general nature of the improvement, the estimated costs thereof, and the area
proposed to be assessed, and that a reasonable estimate of the total amount to be assessed,
and a description of the methodology used to calculate individual assessments for
affected parcels (the "Impact of Assessments") has been made available at the hearing, all
in accordance with law; and
WHEREAS, this City Council has heretofore discussed and made determinations
about the Impact of Assessments:
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of
Otsego, Minnesota, as follows:
1. A public hearing will be at the time and place set forth in the Notice of
Hearing attached hereto as Exhibit A held to consider proposed improvements.
2. The nature of the improvements, the estimated cost of each major portion
thereof, and the areas proposed to be assessed therefor are described in the form of Notice
of Hearing hereto attached.
3. The notice of said public hearing shall be in substantially the form
contained in the notice hereto attached.
4. The City Clerk is hereby authorized and directed to cause notice of said
hearing to be given two publications in the official newspaper. Said publications shall be
one week apart, and at least three days shall elapse between the last publication and the
hearing. Not less than ten days before the hearing the Clerk shall mail notice of the
hearing to the owner of each parcel of land within the area proposed to be assessed as
described in the notice. For the purpose of giving such mailed notice, owners shall be
those shown to be such on the records of the County Auditor or, if the tax statements in
the County are mailed by the County Treasurer, on the records of the County Treasurer.
As to properties not listed on the records of the County Auditor or the County Treasurer,
the Clerk shall ascertain such ownership by any practicable means and give mailed notice
to such owners.
5. The City Clerk is hereby authorized and directed to cause to be prepared
the Impact of Assessments, which may be in the form attached hereto as Exhibit B,
consistent with the determinations of this City Council on and prior to the date hereof.
ADOPTED August 14, 2006.
Motion by: CM Scharber
Seconded by: CM Heidner
All in favor: Mayor Fournier, CM Heidner, CM Scharber, CM Stockamp, CM Thorsted
Those Opposed: None