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Rachel Tussey, Clerical Assistant

MEMORANDUM 09-14

TO: Mayor Hornaday and Homer City Council

FROM: Kurt Marquardt, Chair/Transportation Advisory Committee

DATE: February 3, 2009

SUBJECT: HART Policy Amendment Recommendations

The Transportation Advisory Committee has been reviewing the HARP Policy and asks that Council give consideration to the following recommendations:

· Adjust the fixed frontage foot assessments to provide for 20% (10% each side of the road) of the cost of a road project to be the responsibility of the Property Owners, 80% City Responsibility.

· Recommend that the City Council amend the ordinance to allow for the use of HART Funds for local matches on State rights-of-way.

· Recommend a third voting option for the LID process, a non objection to the LID, which would defer an assessment on an undeveloped lot with interest accruing on that assessment at the same rate of the other property owners within the LID. That deferred assessment will terminate at the point that the property is sold, developed, or title is transferred.

· Educate property owners about the process. The City’s cost of informing property owners about the HART program before or during the creation of a road LID should be eligible for reimbursement from the HART fund.

Fiscal Note: N/A