NOTICE OF HEARING ON PROPOSED ASSESSMENTS City of Badger, Minnesota November 4, 2024

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Notice is hereby given that the council will meet at 5:00 p.m. on November 20th 2024 in the Badger Community Center located at 111 North Main Street Badger, MN to consider, and possibly adopt, the proposed assessment for the 2024-2025 Street Improvement project and the 2024 Adoption by the Council of the proposed assessment may occur at the hearing. The following is the area that is proposed to be assessed:

Proposal 1: Tamarack Street Reconstruction- Total project cost $435,905.98 assessment rate per front foot $49.39

Proposal 2: Tamarack Street Overlay-Total project cost $71,395.27 assessment rate per front foot $16.09

Proposal 3: Spruce Street Reconstruction-Total project cost $133,321.00 assessment rate per front foot $30.31

Such assessments proposed to be payable in equal annual installments extending over a period of 15 years, the first of the installments to be payable on or before the first Monday in January 2026, and will bear interest at the rate of 6.25 percent per annum from the date of the adoption of the assessment resolution. To the first installment, there shall be added interest in the entire assessment from the date of the assessment resolution until December 31, 2024, To each subsequent installment when due shall be added interest for one year on all unpaid installments.

You may at any time prior to certification of the assessment to the county auditor pay the entire assessment on such property, with interest accrued to the date of payment, to the City Clerk. No interest shall be charged if the entire assessment is paid within 30 days from the adoption of this assessment. You may, at any time thereafter, pay the City Clerk the entire amount of the assessment remaining unpaid, with interest accrued to December 31 of the year in which such payment is made. Such payment must be received before November 15, or interest will be charged through December 31 of the succeeding year. If you decide not to prepay the assessment before the date given above, the rate of interest that will apply is 6.25 percent per year.)

The proposed assessment roll is on file for public inspection at the city clerk’s office. The total amount of the proposed assessment is $640,622.25. 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 clerk 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 Minn. Stat. §§ 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, one retired by virtue of a permanent and total disability, or a member of the National Guard or other reserves ordered to active military service 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 and Ordinance (Resolution), all amounts accumulated plus applicable interest become due. Any assessed property owner meeting the requirements of this law and any applicable Ordinance may, within 30 days of the confirmation of the assessment, apply to the city clerk for the prescribed form for such deferral of payment of this special assessment on his/her 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 or clerk 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 clerk.

Angie Swenson

City Clerk

(November 6 &13, 2024)