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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council Monday, November 16, 2015 Page 12 • First Reacting of ®rdinance No. 2015-30, entitled, "An Emergency Ordinance levying special assessments for the improvement of Eastgate Drive and Meadowood Drive between certain termini by constructing sanitary sewers, sanitary sewer service connections and manholes, installing where necessary, force mains and storm sewers, and replacing, where necessary, pavement and driveway aprons, altogether with the necessary appurtenances thereto." Introduced by Mayor Rinker and Council as a Whole. Mr. Saponaro, seconded by Mrs. Mills, made a motion to suspend the rules of Council requiring an Ordinance to be read on three separate occasions. ROLL CALL: AYES: All NAYS: None Motion Carried Rules Suspended Mr. Marquardt, seconded by Mr. Jerome, made a motion to enact Ordinance No. 2015-30. Council President Marrie asked, any discussion? Mr. Wynne stated, once this is passed, we will send a letter to all the residents involved in this project informing them that the assessment is $7,200 as they have been advised from the get-go. They will have 30 days to decide whether they want to pay for that now or add to their property taxes which the first assessment will not start until December 2016. Mr. Jerome stated, a resident came to me and said there was legislation. Mr. Guidetti stated, there is some legislation proposed in the House from back in 2014. The gist of it was to give residents a 15-year period. Eventually they would have to pay into it if they were forced to connect. The Bill was suspended. It was initially a part of the budgetary bill. It was proposed independently and now it is just kind of sidelined and sitting there with no indication. Mr. Wynne stated, indirectly related to this, you may recall that each property has a $4.00 per foot charge annually from the County Engineer's office for maintenance of their new line. I am trying to find out exactly when that will start. The majority of the homes in this project are all around 100-110 feet wide. There are about 5 parcels on quarters that are actually over 200 feet in width. My intention is to come back to Council on those five properties and have the assessments for those properties set based upon the 110 foot width. Mr. Saponaro asked, how is that rate determined? We are $4.00, Gates Mills is $10. Mr. Cappello replied, I am pretty sure maintenance is only by frontage. We have an annual report that they give us that tells us how much we put in and how much they expended. They then calculate based on that. Mr. Saponaro asked, is the commercial properties the same rate, $4.00? Mr. Wynne replied, yes. Every property that has a sanitary line going in front of their property.