1987/02/04 Council Minutes - Laserfiche WebLink

February 4,1987 1 He said c°urt reporter was in attendance and would be recording 1I4'I what rs said so only one person should speak at a time. Me said he would be acting as the presiding officer for the hearing ° and the other c unc!Smembers and he were concerned that the hearing J Oe fair 1n formand substance and fair!n appearance as well so he asked if any councilmember knew of any real or potential conf!ct which would cause that member to avoid participation!n the healing. I y III } Bruce Jones, City Attorney, said Councilman Pope had asked him to { comment far the record that he had been asked by Mr. Haglund, a property owner in the LID, about his assessment and Councilman Pope In turn had talked to the staff about Mr.Haglund's assessment. Mr. II � Jones said he and Councilmen Pope had discussed this and decided It 4I would be best not to discuss this Out to wait until this hearing for 11 iI - him to get the information and the council could hear it at the samtime. II,,III e � time. Vice President Morrow said he also wanted t0 state for the record jII€ that he had spoken with Hr.Jones about a cell he had received from citizen who had complained he had not been invited to neighborhood meeting, but it had nothing to do with the healing III tonight. Vice President Morrow then asked if there was any property over or {�� representative who objected for any reason to his pertnClpatton ore d Other councilmember's participation in the proceedings. No t replied. ii'a He said the purpose of the heeling as to afford individual property I opportunity an to present information and evidence to the City[sC Council explaining the x assns for ern, °Ejection tonswer 1 I assMent. The hearing!s not intended to be question and e 1 I session but is the final opportunity fax property owners to present �` evidence or information to the council before action la taken on the assessment s roll. Questions to the amounts of individual asses ants willbe noted and considered and may be responded to by the city. All those who vfiled who wishes to be heard should file protest anyone written protest st immediat ly. He then introduced Blair Burroughs,special Council for the LID,who f said this hearing is designated be statute and as not like the[ l types of hearings. He espial,. the process of an LID and said there are several methods that can be used to assess the properties, but!n this instance the city had felt the special benefit method was the the fairest as those citizens benefitted by the LID would be `3 paying for!t. 11 i Cella Strong said the Silver Lake LID was created for the purpose of �� s installingr sanitary sewers to all the Currently unserviced,recently area known as the Silver Lake Annexation. She said annexed athe ' preliminary estimated cast of the improvement was$3,264,000 and the final LID cost is$2,412,976. There are about 126 acres of,assessed III I property and the identified needs leadingrty°to owners, formation of theID tthe i. Health District strongly petition recommending that wthe as..lbet serveder m with II4 enitery sewers at the earliest possible time and bacteria '�_ sampling showing the deteriorated water quality on the east side°f ' the lake compared with the west side with sewers. This alsoencou -, rages est use land development and preservesw and enhances the property values. s III 1FI