Public Notice of Hearing on Proposed Assessment
Dodge Center, Minnesota March 5, 2025
Notice is hereby given that the Council will meet at 6:00 P.M. on March 24, 2025 at the Dodge Center City Hall located at 35 East Main Street, Dodge Center, to consider, and possibly adopt, proposed assessments for the 2025 Street Improvement Project, the improvement of:
• 1st Street NW between 3rd Avenue NW and 6th Avenue NW
• 6th Avenue NW between 1st Street NW and 2nd Street NW
Adoption by the Council of the proposed assessment against abutting, benefited properties may occur at the hearing.
Such assessment is proposed to be payable in equal annual installments extending over a period of fifteen (15) years, the first of the installments to be payable on or before the 1st Monday in January, 2027, and will bear interest at the rate of four and a half (4.5) percent per annum commencing on November 15, 2026. To each subsequent installment when due shall be added interest for one year on all unpaid installments.
You may at any time prior to certification of the assessment to the County Auditor, pay the entire assessment on such property, with interest accrued to the date of payment, to the City Administrator. No interest shall be charged if the entire assessment is paid prior to November 15, 2026. You may at any time thereafter, pay to the Dodge County Finance Director the entire amount of the assessment remaining unpaid, with interest accrued to December 31 of the year in which such payment is made. Such payment must be made before November 15 or interest will be charged through December 31 of the succeeding year. If you decide not to prepay the assessment before the date given above the rate of interest that will apply is four and a half (4.5) percent per year. The right to partially prepay the assessment is available.
The proposed assessment roll is on file for public inspection at the City Administrator’s office. The total amount proposed to be assessed is $228,901.19. Written or oral objections will be considered at the meeting. No appeal may be taken as to the amount of an assessment unless a written objection signed by the affected property owner is filed with the City Administrator prior to the assessment hearing or presented to the presiding officer at the hearing. The Council may upon such notice consider any objection to the amount of a proposed individual assessment at an adjourned meeting upon such further notice to the affected property owners as it deems advisable.
Under Minn. Stat. §§ 435.193 to 435.195, the Council may, in its discretion, defer the payment of this special assessment for any homestead property owned by a person 65 years of age or older, one retired by virtue of a permanent and total disability, or a member of the National Guard or other reserves ordered to active military service for whom it would be a hardship to make the payments. When deferment of the special assessment has been granted and is terminated for any reason provided in that law, all amounts accumulated plus applicable interest become due. Any assessed property owner meeting the requirements of this law may, within 30 days of the confirmation of the assessment, apply to the City Administrator for the prescribed form for such deferral of payment of this special assessment on his/her property.
An owner that has filed a written objection may appeal an assessment to district court pursuant to Minn. Stat. § 429.081 by serving notice of the appeal upon the Mayor or Administrator of the City within 30 days after the adoption of the assessment and filing such notice with the district court within ten days after service upon the Mayor or City Administrator.
Lee Mattson, City Administrator
