NOTICE OF HEARING ON
PROPOSED ASSESSMENT
2024 STREET AND UTILITIES IMPROVEMENTS
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
Notice is hereby given that the City Council of Thief River Falls, Minnesota, will meet on Tuesday, December 17, 2024, at 5:30 p.m. in the City Council Chambers at 405 East Third Street, Thief River Falls, MN to consider, and possibly adopt, the proposed assessments for the 2024 Street and Utilities Improvements Project, 3102024.00. Adoption by the Council of the proposed assessment may occur at the hearing. The properties proposed to be assessed are as follows:
RED LAKE RAPIDS ADDITION
Block 19 Lots 25-48
Block 20 Lots 1-24
Block 27 Lots 1-11
Block 28 Lots 38-48
The amount to be specially assessed against your particular lot, piece, or parcel of land is $____________. Such assessment will be added to your property tax statement over a period of 12 years and will bear interest at the rate of 4.13 percent per annum from the date of the adoption of the assessment resolution.
You may at any time 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 31st, 2024. You may at any time thereafter, pay to the County Auditor the entire amount of the assessment remaining unpaid, with interest accrued to December 31 of the year in which such payment is made. If you decide not to prepay the assessment before the date given above the rate of interest that will apply is 4.13 percent per year.
The proposed assessment roll is on file for public inspection at the City Administrator’s Office. The total amount of the proposed assessment is $542,362.28. Written or oral objections will be considered at the meeting.
No appeal may be taken as to the amount of an assessment unless a written objection signed by the affected property owner is filed with the City Administrator prior to the assessment 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.
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 and will prepare written findings concerning the amount of the assessment.
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 City Administrator of the City within 30 days after the adoption of the assessment and filing such notice with the District Court within 10 days after service upon the Mayor or City Administrator.
Angela Philipp, City Administrator
Dated this 22nd day of November 2024