It is hereby declared to be the policy of the City of Battle Creek, effective the beginning of the calendar year 1996, to cease collecting special assessments to assist in paying for street improvements in the City, except where specifically requested by a Developer as provided for in above Section 216.21(f).
All special assessment street resolutions adopted since January 1, 1995, are hereby modified by limiting the maximum special assessment for any one parcel to 100 front feet for residential property only, except where specifically requested by a Developer as provided in above Section 216.21(f).
All sums paid in excess of the sums due under this section to the City in discharge of special assessments levied since January 1, 1995, for street improvements are hereby ordered refunded, with any interest actually earned by the City since the assessment was paid.
Except in instances where street reconstruction is specifically requested by a Developer as provided in above Section 216.21(f), it shall be the policy of the City of Battle Creek to replace the not less than four hundred thirty thousand dollars ($430,000) raised on an annual basis by special assessments as follows: one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) or more from the General Fund and the balance by increasing the millage currently dedicated for street improvements from 1.5 mills to a millage sufficient to totally replace the revenue, but not to exceed an additional one-half mill. The City Administration is hereby directed, when preparing budgets, to dedicate one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) or more to special assessment replacement revenues for street improvements and to recommend to the City Commission the level of millage, if any, necessary to achieve full replacement revenues.
It is further declared to be the policy of the City to not use special assessments for sidewalk improvements. The local sidewalk program for individual lot-by-lot replacement based on a fifty/fifty shared basis will be continued and shall operate on the level established from time to time by moneys appropriated by the City Commission for that purpose.
(Res. 46. Passed 12-19-95; Ord. 13-2018. Passed 11-13-18.)