HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution - 408 - Resolution Opposing House File 193. Certification of Assessments - 03/09/1971 VILLAGE OF EDEN PRAIRIE
HENNEPIN COUNTY, MINNESOTA
RESOLUTION NO. 408
A RESOLUTION IN OPPOSITION TO H. F. 193,
WHEREAS, a bill proposed for approval by the legislature known
as H. F. 193 would require that within ten (10) days after a resolution
ordering an improvement, the Council must notify the County Auditor in
writing of the nature of the improvement, its estimated cost, and the
name and address of each owner of a parcel within the area proposed to
be assessed; and within five (5) days after receiving this information
the County Auditor would have notice of the proposed assessment on record
against all property proposed to be assessed, and
WHEREAS, the Village Council of the Village of Eden Prairie deems
that it would work an undue hardship on property owners to have a proposed
assessment recorded against their property prior to the letting of an actual
contract for a proposed improvement because of the lapse of time that often
occurs between the adoption of a resolution ordering the improvement and
the actual award of the contract in respect to same, and
WHEREAS, until the time an actual contract is let in connection with
an improvement, the entire project may be abandoned, and under the proposals
of H. F. 193 real estate would be burdened with an improvement of record that
was never carried beyond the resolution ordering the improvement, all to the
prejudice of the owners of real estate:
NOW THEREF"RE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE VILLAGE COUNCIL OF THE VILLAGE
OF EDEN PRAIRIE that the legislature be and hereby is urged to amend H. F. 193
so as to provide that no assessment for a public improvement would be considered
a pending assessment against property proposed to be assessed until an actual
contract for the construction of such improvement has been let.
LET IT BE FURTHER RESOLVED, that a certified copy of this resolution be
brought to the attention of Senator Alf Bergerud and to Representative John B.
Keefe.
ADOPTED by the Village Council of the Village of Eden Prairie this
9th day of March, 1971 .
David W. Osterholt, Mayor
ATTEST:
Edna M. Holmgren, Clerk