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City Council hears from residents at assessment hearing

Submitted by admin on Wed, 04/06/2016 - 9:15am
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The Glencoe City Council held a public hearing Monday night on the proposed assessment for the Armstrong Avenue project and voted to adopt the assessments.
The Armstrong Avenue project is a street and utility improvement project that will cover about 10 blocks on and around Armstrong Avenue.
Short Elliot Hendrickson  (SEH) Engineer Justin Black presented the proposed assessments of the project to the council. He said the assessments are required by state statute in this project.
The total cost of the project is $4,694,268 and $971,319 of that will come from assessments. This is about 20.7 percent of the total cost. Black said state statute requires at least 20 percent of the project to be from assessments, so the project is on the lower end of that requirement. Black said the assessments are also lower than expected because the city received favorable bids.
Payments for the assessments will be interest free until Oct. 31, 2016. After that interest will be 3.5 percent. Black said partial payments are allowed and any unpaid portion will be certified to property taxes.
After Black’s presentation, the meeting was opened to comments and questions from the public.
Sandra Olson said property taxes already went up around 21 percent and now residents in the area will have to pay for assessments as well. She asked why the cost can’t be split between the whole town, since everyone will use the streets.
Mayor Randy Wilson explained the city property taxes went up only about 1.2 percent, and the rest of the increase was in other areas, like the school. He said the state requires the city to assess 20 percent of the project, but the other 80 percent will come from grants, state funding and general tax levies that include the entirety of the community.
Dean Tucker asked about the costs for street and utility work to make sure Armstrong Avenue can support Seneca Food Company’s truck traffic in the area.
Black explained the cost of doing so is coming from state aid dollars and Seneca is being assessed for a total of $473,318.

For more from the hearing, and the rest of the council meeting, see the April 6 print edition of The Chronicle.