SPICER -- The Spicer City Council approved assessments to property owners for two street projects at the regular Wednesday meeting.
The assessments were lowered from the initial assessment levels, according to LaNae Osmond, city clerk. The council passed a resolution that the city will use tax increment financing funds to pay $139,635 of the total $233,362 for the Progress Circle project, with the remainder assessed to the adjoining property owners.
On the Interior Street Project, the council passed a resolution to use tax increment financing funds to pay for $249,000 of the total $1,480,689 project cost. The council also approved lowering the property owners' assessment to $33.13 per foot of street, drainage and restoration costs. The anticipated final cost was $79.50 per foot. Therefore, the city will pay approximately 75 percent of the project costs, while property owners will be assessed for about 25 percent of the costs.
In other action, the council:
n Canvassed and certified the Nov. 7 election of Troy Block and Bob Lindahl to the council and Perry Wohnoutka as mayor of the city. They will be sworn in at the Jan. 10 meeting of the council.
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n Heard the monthly report from the Kandiyohi County Sheriff's Office and were informed that parking tickets issued over the weekend in the western portion of the city will be waived, as the city has no signs notifying drivers of the snow ordinance that prohibits on-street parking from Nov. 1 to April 1. Tickets issued for parking overnight in the downtown area, where there is signage, will remain in effect.
