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i <br />R F S(tt.t rrT nm <br />!-P'FpF.Ar, the City of Orono Crystal Pay Sanitary Sewer Imnrovesments <br />11roiect R;-1 for the area of Orono known as Crystal Bay, was <br />,teemed by a Nennenin County survey to he a low to moderate <br />income level neighborhood, and <br />WHEREAS the Orono City Council has recognized that recent Stat^ <br />Sunreme Court decisions make it difficult to assess the <br />entire cost of a municipal project to only the benefited <br />nronerties, and has recognized that Crvstal Ray has an <br />average estimated residential market value (199 5 taxes) of <br />564,2nn.nn , and recognized that, based on a report by an <br />indenendent annraiser hired by the City of Orono, it is <br />unlikely that all of the benefited nronerties will realize <br />an increase in value, and <br />MfFRF.AS in other utility improvements on record in the Orono <br />City offices, vroiect costs have been reduced to the bene- <br />fited nronerties by snreadinp hart of the cost to the general <br />tax base, and <br />MHFRF.AS the nrooerties in Crvstal 'iav have been included in the <br />Orono sewer district since 1964, and were assessed for the <br />sewage treatment facility l-nown as the French La):e Sewame <br />Treatment Plant, and <br />WW.RF.AS Crvstal Ray nronerty owners petitioned for sanitary <br />sewer in Anril, 197n, when nroiect costs were substantialy <br />less, even after an,)lvinR the annual cost of livtnr, increases <br />between then and now, but were rejected by the Orono City <br />Council and <br />WtIF.RFAS the affected nronerty owners of Crystal Bay objected to <br />the unreasonably hi}th assessment for the 85-1 Crystal Bay <br />ganitary gewor Improvements Project, <br />BF. IT THF.R17FORE RF.SOLVFD that the City of Orono, Precinct I, <br />DFwMR-kTIC-FARMER LABOR PARTY, meetir.v. at its biennial <br />precinct caucus this 1Rth day of March, 119j, requests the <br />Orono City Council to imediately Brant relief to the <br />nronerty owners affected by the Crvstal Ray Sanitary Sewer <br />Inirovement Project SS-1 by reducinr said assessment by <br />one -halt (SM) of the assessment and by snreadinR the other <br />one-half (SM) of the assessment over the entire Citv of <br />Orono tax base. <br />-.in- <br />