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1019C.6 TO: Mayor and City Council FROM: Mark E. Bernhardson, City Administrator \ DATE: Oc":ober 1, 1990 SUBJECT: Street Light Request - Livingston Avenue ■i // Attachment: A. T'-r^et Light Request Dated 8/23/^0 ISSUE - Determine if the Council desires to pjrsue the .^sue of privately installed street lights and the method for poking the ongoing cost. INTRODUCTION - At the Council's August 27th meeting Attachment A W3w presented for Council coiisider at ion at which time they tabled it requesting staff to do further work on the matter. This was in part done because of the City's concern for its exoosure to future street lights. DISCUSSION - In a subsequent conversation, . I aast r: of the residents has indicated the neighborhood was willing to pay the costs# howe''jr# the mechanism to do it privately did not exist or was "a hasse ! "*. Attachmp-*^ A iddressed the issue as the City having - rovide the revenue to fund th^se. As noted in the histo-, ^ City funds approximately 53 street lights and there are * a* eer 67 street lights that had been put in at nrivate reques ;d had been previously handled as a special need for a public hearing and notice administrative headache and in res received 'each individual assessmen*" per "ear). 1^ addition the concer: w- exist. oJt there presently that ar oe in ’ he future. sment. B^’caus - of the - became an .«al dollars .eiy $10-15.00 .i/ute lights may pr■ ately or ones Given the willing^.. 3 of this group . ry for it pius the past history of persons paying for the private lights, perhaps the issue is not c ^ of the City having to develop additional revenue, but having the City only serve as the structure to collect tiie revenue. In this vain the City could determine a standard billing rate to be wpplied I 11 the homes which have private lights and had •■/w^n previous y assessed or who desire to have their private light funded through the City and have this put on as ^ separate item on the City's utility billing. Failure to pay the street light charge would result in it bs g incl’ded and specially assessed with the delinquent utility 11s each year. The utility customers with delinquent accf nts are notified by a separate billing sent prior to the special ass?sr:,menaction.