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PiSOUMON WHEREAS the City of Orono Crystal Bay Sanitary Sewer Inprovertents Project 85-1 for the area of Orono known as Crystai Ba•'i, was deerod by a Hennepin County survey to be a low to mode:. -ate incase level neighborhood, and MTERFAS the Orono City Council has recognized that recent State Supreme Court decisions make it difficult to assess the entire cost of a municipal project to only the benefited properties, and has recognized that Crystal Bay has an average estimated residential market value (1985 taxes) of $64,200.00, and recognized thr' based on a report by are independant apprdi.ser hired by the City of Orono, it is unlikely Uiat all of the benefited properties will realize an increase in�alue, and "iERFAS in other utility irprovelients of record in the Orono City offices, ,project costs have '.-*ren reduced to t►ie bene- fited properties by spreading part of the cost to the ge seral t`x base, and 1-11iI:RFAS the properties in Ciystzil Bay have been included in the Orono sewer district since 1964, and were assessed for the sewage treatment facility k,-ioNm as the French rake Sewage Treatment Plant., and WiiI2FAS Crystal Bay property owners petitioned t�r sanitary sewer in April, 1970, when nro-ject costs were substantially less, even after applying the annual cost of living increases between then and now, but were rejected by the Orono City Council and WHEFEAS the affected property uwners of Crystal Bay objected to the unreasonably .sigh assessment for the 85-1 Crystal Bay Sanitary Sewer Improvements Project, BE IT THFRFM.RF RES(-)I.VFD t-hat the City of Orono, Precinct I, INDEPLNDFNT ITI'UBLICAN PARTY, meeting at its biennial precinct caucus this 18th clay or Marc.`t, 1986, requests UN Orono City Council to immedidtely grant relief to the property owners affected by the Crystal Bay Sanitary Sewer Improvement Project 85-1 by reducirni said assessment by ot-w-half (50%) of the assessrrrt and by spreading the other one --half (50%) of the assessvnt aver the entire City of Orono tax base. �r ,