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Commission Memorandum
REPORT TO: Honorable Mayor and City Commission
FROM: Deanna Shannon, Special Assessment/SID Accounting Clerk
Chris Kukulski, City Manager
SUBJECT: Resolution 4075 / Assessment for Delinquent Sidewalk Repair
MEETING DATE: September 24, 2007
RECOMMENDATION: Approve Commission Resolution No. 4075.
BACKGROUND: The attached resolution assesses property owners who are delinquent in payment
of their sidewalk repair assessments. These amounts will be certified to the County Treasurer for
collection with regular property taxes.
7-14-4110. Assessments for costs. (1) The payment of assessments to defray the cost of construction
of the sidewalks, curbs, and gutters referred to in 7-14-4109 or any combination of sidewalks, curbs, or
gutters or alley approach may be spread over a period not to exceed 20 years. Payments must be made
in equal annual installments.
(2) Before the first Monday of October each year, the city council shall adopt a resolution levying
an assessment against each lot or parcel of land in front of which sidewalks, curbs, and gutters or any
combination of sidewalks, curbs, or gutters has been constructed under orders of the city council or
each lot or parcel of land having access to the property by way of the alley approach that has been
constructed under orders of the city council. The resolution levying the assessment must be prepared
and certified in the same manner as resolutions levying assessments for the making of improvements in
special improvement districts.
FISCAL EFFECTS: We will collect $497.25 in delinquent sidewalk repair assessments.
ALTERNATIVES: As suggested by the City Commission.
Respectfully submitted,
___________________________________ __________________________________
Deanna Shannon Chris A. Kukulski, City Manager
Special Assessment/SID Accounting Clerk
Attachment: Commission Resolution No. 4075
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COMMISION RESOLUTION NO. 4075
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF
BOZEMAN, MONTANA, LEVYING AND ASSESSING A SPECIAL
ASSESSMENT UPON CERTAIN SPECIFIED REAL PROPERTY IN THE
CITY OF BOZEMAN, COUNTY OF GALLATIN, STATE OF MONTANA,
TO COLLECT SIDEWALK REPAIR CHARGES PLUS COSTS AND
EXPENSES INCURRED BY THE CITY OF BOZEMAN, AS PROVIDED
FOR IN CHAPTER 12.20 OF THE BOZEMAN MUNICIPAL CODE.
WHEREAS, Chapter 12.20 of the Bozeman Municipal Code requires the owner of any
property within the city to maintain the sidewalk adjacent to the property in good repair; and
WHEREAS, Chapter 12.20 of the Bozeman Municipal Code provides that, in the event
the owner of said premises neglects to maintain the sidewalk in good repair, a special assessment
may be made, levied and collected for repairs to the sidewalk.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED and it is hereby ordered by the Commission
of the City of Bozeman, State of Montana:
Section 1. That to collect sidewalk repair charges, an assessment is hereby levied
against the responsible property and the several lots, pieces and parcels of land thereof within the
City of Bozeman as set forth in Schedule “A”, which is attached hereto and made a part hereof,
a particular description of each lot and parcel of land with the name of the owner and/or owners
and the delinquent sum assessed against the same is set forth in Schedule “A”; that the several
sums set opposite the names of said owners and the described lots and parcels of land are hereby
levied and assessed upon and against said lots and parcels of land for said purpose; that the
several sums be collected from the respective owners of said lots and parcels of land described in
said assessment list and owned by them; that the said sums shall be paid and the collection
thereof be made in the manner and in accordance with the laws of the State of Montana
governing the collection of special assessments; that failure to pay such assessment when the
same shall become due and payable shall make such persons and such lots and parcels of land
liable to the penalties provided by law relative to delinquent taxes.
Section 2. That this assessment be levied and billed in October 2007 as are all other
special assessments.
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Section 3. That upon all assessments levied and assessed, simple interest shall be
charged at the rate of 10 percent per year from the date this assessment becomes delinquent
(December 1, 2007) to the date the assessment is paid.
Section 4. That the regular session of the Commission of the City of Bozeman,
Montana, to be held in the Court House Community Room, 311 W Main Street on the 24th of
September 2007, at 6:00 o’clock p. m., and the same is hereby designated as the time and place
at which objections to the final adoption of the Resolution will be heard by said Commission.
Section 5. That the Clerk of Commission of the City of Bozeman, be, and she is
hereby ordered and directed to publish in the Bozeman Daily Chronicle, a daily newspaper
printed and published in said City of Bozeman a Notice signed by the Clerk of the Commission,
stating that a Resolution levying and assessing a special assessment to collect sidewalk repair
charges, plus the costs and expenses incurred thereby, in the City of Bozeman in Fiscal Year
2007, against the property of which such service was rendered, is on file in the office of the
Clerk of Commission; that said Notice shall state the time and place at which objections will be
heard by the Commission to the final adoption of this Resolution.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Commission of the City of Bozeman, Montana,
at a regular session thereof held on the 24th of September 2007.
_________________________________
JEFF KRAUSS
Mayor
ATTEST:
_________________________________
STACY ULMEN
City Clerk
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
_________________________________
PAUL J LUWE
City Attorney
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NOTICE
HEARING ON ADOPTION OF COMMISSION RESOLUTION NO. 4075
LEVYING AND ASSESSING A SPECIAL ASSESSMENT UPON CERTAIN
SPECIFIED REAL PROPERTY IN THE CITY OF BOZEMAN, TO COLLECT
SIDEWALK REPAIR CHARGES PLUS COSTS AND EXPENSES INCURRED
BY THE CITY OF BOZEMAN FOR FISCAL YEAR 2007, UPON ALL
PROPERTY TO WHICH SUCH SERVICES WAS RENDERED.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Commission Resolution No. 4075 levies and
assesses a special assessment to collect delinquent sidewalk repair charges in the City of
Bozeman for the Fiscal Year 2007, upon all property to which such service was rendered.
Monday, September 24, 2007 at 6:00 pm of said day at a regular session of the Commission of
the City of Bozeman in the Commission Room in the Courthouse Community Room, 311 W
Main Street, has been designated as the time and place when and where said Commission will
hear and pass upon any and all objections that may be made to the passage and adoption of said
Commission Resolution No. 4075; and the levying of said assessment and that said Resolution
will be finally passed and adopted at said regular session of said Commission subject to such
corrections and amendments that may be made upon objections.
DATED this 19th day of September 2007.
_____________________________________
STACY ULMEN
City Clerk
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Date of Service Owner Service Amount Due Service Address
5/22/2006William JoynerSidewalk Repair $176.75919 W Lamme
5/22/2006Media Station Sidewalk Repair $320.50109 N 8th Ave
Delinquent Sidewalk Repair FY07
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