(A) Each appropriate city department shall maintain a record of the costs per visit in response to nuisance activities. The cost of providing such services is determined by the gross salaries including all fringes and benefits which are paid by the city for law enforcement staff, while responding to or dealing with these nuisance activities, the prorata cost of all materials and equipment including vehicles, the cost of repairs to any city equipment and property damaged in responding to such nuisance activities, and the cost of any medical treatment of any injured law enforcement officers. These costs shall be recalculated from time to time. In addition to maintaining a record of the cost per visit, the department shall maintain a record on individual properties of the cost of such services attributable to nuisances occurring after written notice has been sent to the owner and interested persons. Each department shall report such information to the Finance Director or his or her designee.
(B) Resolution approving total, setting date of public hearing. On or before September 1 of each year, the City Manager or designee shall notify the City Council of the total cost of such excessive police and code enforcement services performed during the previous year and the portion of such costs to be assessed against each lot and parcel of property that utilized excessive services in response to nuisance activity. Upon receipt thereof, the Council shall by resolution fix a date for public hearing at which time the Council shall consider adopting and levying the service charges. The date of public hearing shall be at least 20 days after adoption of that resolution.
(C) Notice of Council hearing. Following the adoption of the resolution provided in division (B) above, the Finance Director shall publish a notice of the hearing in a local newspaper of the city at least five days prior to the public hearing. The notice shall state the date, time and place of hearing, the purpose of the hearing, identify the services provided and the property to be assessed a service charge therefor, and shall state the proposed rates of service charges to be considered by the Council.
(D) Notice to owner and interested parties. At least ten days before the hearing, notice thereof shall be mailed by first class mail to the owner and any interested party known to the city, at his or her last known address. Such notice shall also inform the recipient of the notice (i) of the procedures he or she must follow under the charter in order to appeal the assessments to the district court, and (ii) of the provisions of M.S. §§ 435.193 to 435.195 and the existence of any deferment procedure established pursuant thereto.
(E) Public hearing; adoption of assessment roll. On the date of public hearing, the Council shall meet to consider the adoption of the proposed service charges. The Council shall hear all interested parties concerning the proposed charges. At such meeting or at any adjournment thereof, the Council may amend the proposed service charges, and shall, by resolution, adopt the service charges as a special assessment against the properties which utilized excessive police services in response to nuisance activities. Special assessments levied hereunder shall be payable in a single installment.
(F) Certification to county for collection with taxes. After adoption by resolution of the service charges and assessment rates therefor, and no later than November 15, the City Clerk shall transmit a certified copy of said resolution to the County Department of Property Taxation to be extended on the proper tax list of the county and collected the following year along with current taxes.
(G) Appeal. Within 20 days after adoption of the resolution adopting the service charges, any person aggrieved may appeal to the district court in the manner set forth in M.S. Chapter 429.
(Ord. 660, passed 9-5-2006; Am. Ord. 690, passed 4-6-2010)