Item 4: Ordinance Levying Assessments for 3rd/4th Connector

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ATTACHMENT A ORDINANCE NO. AN ORDINANCE LEVYING ASSESSMENTS FOR IMPROVEMENTS CONSISTING OF PAVING, CURBS, GUTTERS, SIDEWALKS, LANDSCAPE MEDIANS, STREET LIGHTS, STREET TREES, WASTEWATER, AND STORM WATER DRAINAGE ON 3RD AND 4TH AVENUES BETWEEN PEARL STREET AND LINCOLN STREET, NORTH OF THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD AND SOUTH OF SKINNER BUTTE PARK; AND PROVIDING AN IMMEDIATE EFFECTIVE DATE. (CONTRACT 2006-04) (JOB #3827) The City Council of the City of Eugene finds that: A. On the 24th day of February, 2003, the City Council, by motion duly passed, initiated the proposed local improvements consisting of paving, curbs, gutters, sidewalks, landscape medians, street lights, street trees, wastewater, and storm water drainage on 3rd and 4th Avenues between Pearl Street and Lincoln Street, north of the Southern Pacific Railroad and south of Skinner Butte Park. B. After due notice and a public hearing before the hearing official on June 20, 2005, the City Council formed the Local Improvement District and authorized construction of the local improvements on the 18th day of July, 2005. C. The actual cost ofthe local improvements is ascertained to be $1,844,519.43, and the amounts to be assessed to, and borne by, the specially benefitted property, and to be borne by the City or others, have been determined in accordance with applicable provisions ofthe Eugene Code, 1971 (UE.C."), as set forth in Exhibit A attached hereto and incorporated herein by reference. D. The City Council has established the method of calculating local improvement assessments in E.C. 7.170 and 7.175. E. A public hearing on the ordinance, as required by Section 28(2) ofthe Eugene Charter of2002, was scheduled before the hearing official as authorized by E.C. 2.007(4), on April 12, 2006. At least ten days prior to the scheduled public hearing before the hearing official, a notice containing the information required by E.C. 7.185 was posted on a public bulletin board at City Hall and given by certified mail to the owners of the parcels of real property subject to the assessment. At the time and place specified therein, the hearings official considered the assessment report of the City Engineer and Finance Officer and the testimony and evidence presented at the hearing. F. At least ten working days prior to the Council meeting, notice of the Council's consideration ofthis Ordinance was published in the Register Guard, and the Ordinance was posted on the City's web site on the same date, as required by Section 28(1) ofthe Eugene Charter of2002. Ordinance - 1 Q:\PROJECTS\PROJ-7\3827\ASSESS\ORDlNANCE FOR COUNCIL.doc