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r <br />wm <br />4jmie///nepr d <br />TO: <br />FROM: <br />DATS: <br />Mayor and City Council <br />Mark E. Bernhardson, City Adniinistrato^t"' d <br />February 28, 1991 <br />SUBJECT: Stubbs Bay Sewer <br />Attachment: A. Ziesmer Letter Dated 2/22/91 <br />B. Code Section 12.30 Subdivision 4 Requiring <br />Sewer Connection Within 16 Months <br />ISSUE Determine whether Council would agree to a 15 to 20 year <br />assessment deferral as requested by the Ziesmers. <br />INTRODUCTION - <br />have been on a <br />area set aside <br />interesting to <br />tank, and that <br />who are on the <br />The Ziesmer's built a new home three years ago and <br />holding tank ever since, although they have the <br />for primary and alternate drailfield sites. It is <br />note how much it has cost them to be on a holding <br />information may be relevant to other properties <br />brink of having failing systems. <br />DISCUSSION - If the issue of Stubbs Bay sewer would be deemed to <br />be "dead” for the next five to ten years, the Ziesmer's would <br />have at least some use of a new mound drainfield system, and have <br />it substantially paid off, before sewer was assessed. However, <br />if Council expects to make a decision on the the Stubbs Bay sewer <br />question within the next year, they could be hit with sewer <br />assessments at the same time they are trying to pay off the <br />septic system. <br />An alternative would be to assess them at the time all other <br />properties are assessed, but grant them a delay for a certain <br />number of years similar to a Senior Citizen deferment, at the end <br />of which time all principal and interest would start to be paid <br />(staff has not explored whether this would b'* legal). <br />Generating Interest in the Stubbs Bay Sewer - As Council is <br />aware, ana as note<i in the letter, a group of individuals have <br />been exploring ways to generate additional interest in and <br />acceptance of the Stubbs Bay sewer project. Staff has explored <br />options with this group and provided them with additional <br />informational materials to assist them in generating interest in <br />the Stubbs Bay area. <br />The three strategies that may assist generating interest are: <br />A. Require that any currently failing systems must go on <br />holding tanks effective on a set date. <br />B. The City could assist in some percentage of the costs <br />by purchasing "reserve capacity" for future connections <br />/