Sponsor
Alderman Helding
Title
Final - Ten (10) Year
Benefits and Damages
WHEREAS, the Public Works & Services Committee of the Common Council of the City of Racine, Wisconsin, held a public hearing at the Council Chambers in the City Hall at 5:30 P.M. on the 28th day of July, 2009, for the purpose of hearing all interested persons concerning the preliminary resolution and report of the Commissioner of Public Works on the proposed improvement of:
PORTLAND CEMENT CONCRETE PAVING
Gilson Street from Kearney Avenue to Coolidge Avenue
Fleetwood Drive from Spruce Street to Knoll Place
Kentucky Street from Seventeenth Street to Victory Avenue
Alley from Victory Avenue, Sixteenth Street; Hayes Avenue, Grove Avenue
Oregon Street from Washington Avenue to Lindermann Avenue
Alley from Fourth Street, Fifth Street; Main Street, Wisconsin Avenue
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Common Council of the City of Racine as follows:
1. That the report of the Commissioner of Public Works pertaining to the construction of the above described public improvements, including plans and specifications therefore, as modified, is hereby adopted and approved.
2. That the Commissioner of Public Works is directed to advertise for bids and to carry out the work of such improvement in accordance with the report of the Commissioner of Public Works.
3. That payment for said improvements be made by assessing the cost to the property benefited as indicated in said report.
4. That benefits and damages shown on the report, as modified, are true and correct, have been determined on a reasonable basis; do not exceed the value accruing to the property therefrom; and are hereby confirmed.
5. That the assessments for all projects included in said report are hereby combined as a single assessment, but any interested property owner shall be entitled to object to each assessment separately or both assessments jointly for any purpose or purposes.
6. That the assessments may be paid in cash or if any assessments are over $200.00 it may be paid in ten (10) annual installments to the City Treasurer, deferred payments to bear interest at the rate of 8% per annum on the unpaid balance. Installments or assessments not paid when due shall bear additional interest on the amount due at the rate of 9.6% per annum.
7. The City Clerk is directed to publish this resolution in the official newspaper of the City of Racine as a Class I notice in the assessment district.
8. The Clerk is further directed to mail a copy of this resolution and a statement of the final assessment against his property, to every property owner whose name appears on the assessment roll, whose post office address is known or can with reasonable diligence be ascertained.
Dated ________________________________
Signed ________________________________
Mayor
Published __________________________
Attest: ________________________________
City Clerk