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DfM IM/^M •«r-cTT||SJQ REQUEST FOR COUNCIL ACTION ® CITY OF ORONO DATE: August 8,2005 ITEM NO : /*/ DcpartaiCBt Approval: Nam Gregoiy A. Gappa THIc Director of Public Services Administrator Reviewed: Agenda Section: } Public Services Director's Report Item Descriptiott: Approve Eminent Dom^n Settlement Baldur Park Drainage Easement Phase 1 of the Birch Lane/ Baldur Park Road drainage project was constructed in 2004. This project was to install concrete curb and gutter and catch basins on Birch Lane. The street was crowned, so the water drains along the curb and gutter into two catch basins at the Birch Lane/ Baldur Park Road intersection. The water from the catch basins on both the north and south sides of Birch Lane now drains south to Crystal Bay. Phase 2 of this project is to construct a pipe and swale system to drain the water from the north side of Biieh Lane to North Arm Bay which would provide for filtration of the stormwater through a large wetland before discharge into the lake. This project includes the irwtallation of a 10” pipe in the City right of way on the west side of Baldur Park Road to a point 150 feet north of the intersection and then construction of a drainage swale because the ground elevations are too low to continue the pipe. The swale would continue north along the road right-of-way and then cross a small privately owned vacant unbuildable parcel to drain the water into the wetland adjacent to North Arm Bay. Construction this swale will require the City to obtain a drainage easement. The City initially offered the property owner $1,500 for the drainage easern'TiC. The property owner rejected the City ’s offer, so an appraisal was completed that set a value of $1,600 for the drainage easement. The property owner then requested that the City purchase the entire parcel at a cost of $16,000. On December 13,2004, the Council approved a resolution authorizing the City to begin eminent domain proceedings to acquire the drainage easement. The City attorney has reached a settlement agreement with the property in the amount of $3,500 for the drainage easement. The staff recoirunendation is for the City to accept the $3,500 settlement to Gary Spindler for the Baldur Park Drainage Easement Eminent Domain Proceedings with payment of this settlement from the 2005 Stormwater Fund Budget which will require a budget adjustment. COUNaL ACTION REQUESTED: Motion to approve payment of the settlement in the amount of $3,500 to Gary Spindler for the Baldur Park Drainage Easement Eminent Domain Proceedings from the 2005 Stormwater Fund Budget, and approval of a budget adjustment to reflect this expenditure.