#587 11-05-73 Waive Penalties Certain Special Assessments*182
Resolution 587
November 5, 1973
Member Hoover introduced the following resolution and MOVED its adoption:
RESOLUTION
(Waiving Penalties and Interest
on Certain Special Assessments)
WHEREAS, Independent School District No. 281 has recently acquired
Lot 14 of Keene, Higbee & Bitzer's Golden Valley Outlots by condemnation,
said property to be used for the construction of the Olson Elementary School; and
WHEREAS, the aforesaid Lot 14 of Keene, Higbee & Bitzer's Golden Valley
Outlots was actually acquired by said School District, for the purposes hereof,
at the time the report of the condemnation commissioner's was filed on
February 19, 1970, but the proceedings were not completed until September of 1973
because of a legal dispute respecting the true ownership of the said Lot 14; and
WHEREAS, during the above period of the condemnation proceedings there
were no payments made on either the general property tax or any special assess-
ments respecting said property; and
WHEREAS, application has been made for the abatement of the general
property taxes for 1971 and thereafter; and
WHEREAS, Independent School District No. 281 is now requesting that
the Village of Golden Valley waive penalty and interest on the installments
of the unpaid special assessments which became payable after said school
district acquired said property as aforesaid, the said school district
recognizing its obligation to pay the principal balances due with respect to
the said special assessments, NOW THEREFORE
BE IT RESOLVED, by the Village Council for the Village of Golden Valley
that all penalties and interest assessed by reason of the non-payment of the
installments of special assessments on the aforesaid property for those
installments falling due and payable in the years 1971, 1972 and 1973, be and
they hereby are in all respects waived by the Village of Golden Valley in
favor of Independent School District No. 281 as the legal owner of said property
during all of the aforesaid taxing years.
Mayor
Attest:
Village Clerk
The motion for the adoption of the foregoing resolution was seconded by
Member Moberg and upon vote being taken thereon the following voted in favor
thereof: Bix, Hoover, Moberg, and Riggs; and the following voted against the
same: None, whereupon said resolution was declared duly passed and adopted,
signed by the Mayor and his signature attested by the Village Clerk.