Notice of Hearing
on Proposed
Assessments
City of Maple Lake,
County of Wright,
State of Minnesota
Notice is hereby given that the Maple Lake City Council will meet at 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday, November 19, 2024 at Maple Lake City Hall, 10 Maple Ave S, Maple Lake, MN 55358 to consider, and possibly adopt, the proposed assessments for the City’s costs incurred to perform certain exterior abatement work authorized in Wright County District Court File No. 86-CV-22-5296 at the property located at 110 Birch Avenue South, Maple Lake, MN, Wright County PIDs 110025008010 and 110500063400 (the “Property”). Adoption of the proposed assessments against the Property may occur following the hearing. The total cost of the above-referenced abatement work was $107,867.50 and the entire amount is proposed to be specially assessed against the Property (divided equally between the two parcels) pursuant to state and local law.
Such assessments are proposed to be payable in one installment in 2025 and will bear interest at the rate of 5.0 percent per annum from the date of the adoption of the assessment resolution. To the lone installment shall be added interest on the entire assessment from the date of the assessment resolution until December 31, 2025, unless paid within 30 days of adoption.
The owner of the Property so assessed may, at any time prior to certification of the assessment to the county auditor, pay the entire assessment to the city clerk. Additionally, no interest shall be charged if the entire assessment is paid within 30 days from the adoption of the assessment. The owner may at any time after certification 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. Such payment must be made before November 30 or interest will be charged through December 31 of the succeeding year (except that no interest shall be charged if paid within 30 days from the adoption of the assessment). The rate of interest that will apply is 5.0 percent per annum. No partial prepayments are accepted once the assessment has been certified to the county.
The proposed assessment roll is on file for public inspection at the city clerk’s office. Written or oral objections will be considered at the hearing. No appeal to district court 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 clerk prior to the assessment hearing or presented to the presiding officer at the hearing. The city council may at the hearing or at any adjournment thereof upon such further notice as it deems advisable to the affected property owner consider any objection to the amount of a proposed individual assessment.
An owner may appeal an assessment to district court pursuant to Minn. Stat. § 429.081 by serving notice of the appeal upon the mayor or the city clerk 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 clerk. Pursuant to Minn. Stat. §§ 435.193 to 435.195, a city council may, in its discretion, defer payment of certain special assessments for (i) homestead property owned by certain qualifying persons for whom it would be a hardship to make the payments; or (ii) undeveloped property, all pursuant to any established city policy. Owners meeting the requirements of this law and city policy may, within 30 days of the adoption of any qualifying assessment, apply to the city for such deferral of payment of this special assessment on the owner’s property.
Scott Hildebrand
City Administrator
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