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y SUBJECT: PAVING, CURBS, GUTTERS, AND STORM SEWERS GN LAMBERT STREET FROM BROADVIEw STREET TO 350 FEET WEST AND 250 FEET NORTH CONTRACT #95-14} JOB #3207} BACKGROUND This project was initiated by a petition poll letters} from property owners who will bear 58.94 percent of the assessable cost. Based an the petition poll letters}, the City Engineer initiated the project, as provided for in the Eugene Code 7.1608}, on May 5,1994 and the City Council formed the LID on June 14,1995. The project has been completed, and final assessment costs have been calculated. The City has received a letter dated February 12,1996 from Mulkey Cemetery Association The Association's concerns are about the cost of the assessment and how they can pay far it. It feels that the cemetery receives no benefit from the improvement project. Section 2Z3.775~2} of the Oregon Revised Statutes is relevant to this issue: ~2} Notwithstanding the provisions of SRS 65.855 to 65.875 or any other provision of law, whenever all or any part of the cost of a street, curb or sidewalk improvement made by a governmental unit is to be assessed to the property benefitted thereby, benefitted property owned and platted for cemetery or crematory purposes by a cemetery authority shall be assessed the same as private property. The amount of the assessment shall be paid by the cemetery authority as provided in this section. (3)(b) Out of the first funds received for the sales price of any of such lots, the cemetery authority after setting aside perpetual care and maintenance funds as required by law or otherwise sha11 credit five (5) percent of such sales price to a special account for the payment of the assessment until a sum equal to the assessment and any interest due thereon has been so credited. EUGENE HEARINGS OFFICIAL FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS The cemetery has 50 feet of frontage on Lambert Street and has been provided driveway access. PROJECT The project included construction of a 28-foot wide street with curbs, gutters and storm ASSESSMENT Under City of Eugene assessment policy, 85 percent of the improvement costs will be distributed to the abutting property owners. Below is the final unit assessable costs. m rovem ,. ~_ ~ ,, ,,eats Unit Costs quoted Prior to Formation Final Unit Assessable Casts 28-foot paving Sanitary service Driveway apron $ 79.931front foot $1,478.641each $ 4.99lsquare foot $ 78.37/front foot $ 1,570.36/each $ 5.48/square foot Cost to City: $19,300.00 $18,335.67