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owners were all notified by mail of the rescheduled hearing date and the change in anticipated cost of the project. The City Engineer also described the method of calculating the cost of the project. To develop the portion of the final cost of the project that would be assessed to the participating property owners, the expected cost of the entire project, including the costs of the earlier construction of the Irving Road portion of the system, was calculated. From this the portion of the cost that would not be assessed was subtracted, and the assessable costs were divided by the area of all the properties that would or could eventually be served by the construction. The future users who are not immediate participants was included so that the present participants will not be forced to pay a higher cost for the system while later users would be charged less. Under the method adopted for calculating costs, property owners who connect to the sewer at a later date will be charged the same cost by way of the equivalent assessment as present property owners are being assessed, except that future connections will be required to also pay the accumulated interest on their share of the cost. The estimated cost for the construction of the sewer system is forty nine cents ($0.49) per square foot of assessable area for property within the proposed Local Improvement District. The cost of individual service points for each property is calculated in a similar way, where the estimated total cost of establishing service points is determined, and then the total is divided by the number of expected service points. Mr. Lyle finished his remarks by discussing the proposed inclusion of SDC charges with the assessment. Mr. Lyle described the nature of the two SDCs and explained that while the City is not obligated to include the SDCs in with the proposed assessment, this was the regular practice of the City. In this case, Mr. Lyle explained, there was no requirement that property owners connect to the sewer right away. Because there was no mandate to connect, there had been some discussion about the possibility of delaying the SDC until there was an actual connection. Mr. Lyle explained that the City did not have strong feelings on this issue, and would like to hear from the property owners as to which they would prefer. In response to a question from the hearings official concerning the Irving Road portion of the project, Mr. Lyle explained that the Irving Road work had been done earlier when the County was in the process of improving Irving Road. To save the cost of having to later disturb the newly improved street, the City took the opportunity to work with the County to install a dryline system at that time, anticipating that it would soon be connected by way of the Prairie Road project. Mr. Lyle agreed that the anticipated cost of the current proposed LID included the cost of what amounted to purchasing that system of drylines at its original cost plus interest, and connecting it to the remainder of the wastewater treatment system. Inclusion of the Irving Road system and area of service resulted in a decrease of the estimated per square foot cost of the improvement project from the previous estimate of fifty eight cents a square foot down to the current estimate of forty nine cents per square foot. The first member of the public to address the hearing was Mr. Steve Thorton. Mr. Thorton asked if the pump station to be constructed at the south end of the proposed improvement would serve other areas besides the area of the proposed LID, and if so how much of the cost of the pump was going to be attributed to the properties within the LID. City Engineer Les Lyle responded that Minutes - June 12, 1997 Public Hearing Page 2