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AUG 5 2004 BOARD OF CITY COMMISSIONERS City HalJ Phone: 701-241-1310 200 North 3rd Street Fax: 701-241-1526 Fargo, ND 58102 ECITY OF ~o RECEIVED CASS COUNTY COMMISSION Thursday, Aug 05, 2004 Dear Cass County Commissioners, This motion passed unanimously on June 19,2004 at the Fargo City Commission meeting. Please read and consider if you would be interested in joining in and sending a representative to be on the committee of the multi- jurisdictional advisory study. I have been appointed the representative for Fargo on this advisory panel, and would be grateful for the opportunity to alJow me to make a formal presentation of the concept by putting this item on your agenda for your next scheduled meeting. Thank you for your kind consideration. Mike Williams Fargo City Corrul1issioner TO: CASS COUNTY COMMISSION FROM: COMMISSIONER MIKE WILLIAMS DATE: AUG 5, 2004 SUBJECT: INVITATION TO MULTI-JURISDICTIONAL ADVISORY STUDY COMMITTEE The City of Fargo is inviting you to designate a representative from your body to sit on a multi-jurisdictional advisory committee. Your chosen representative does not have to be an elccred official. The committee is advisory only, it will have no binding authority. Attached is a copy of North Dakota Century Code 40-01.1-03 providing an outline for such a committee. Our areas current method of city financing infrastructure for new developments is a strategy that originated many years ago when interest rates were so high new development was stymied. The primary purpose of this multi-jurisdictional advisory study committee wiII be, open a formal avenue for review and discussion on the effects of our area's current methods of special assessments may have on the local jurisdictions, residents and growth. Some of the benefits will be; 1. The study will provide a vehicle to help improve public understanding of our current special assessments methods through review of our current methods. 2. It will also help elected officials and citizens understand some of the common infrastructure challenges our area faces. 3. This study will welcome citizens and professionals input and ideas for potential improvements, along with comparisons of our system to that of other cities or areas. Who knows where the best ideas may come from? Once established, the advisory committee will welcome members of the pubic to attend meetings and submit ideas and concerns. Meetings will be scheduled to introduce, evaluate and consider other potential methods of funding new and existing infrastructure in our area. Other subjects may be introduced if they are deemed pertinent to the primary purpose stated above, by the chairman of the committee. The entities invited for the committee seats are: * Cass County Commission * City governments of Fargo, West Fargo, Harwood, Horace * PulJlic School Boards of those cities listed above * Park Districts of those cities if separate public entities First phase of the study: Review of current special assessment methods and policies presented by staff members that implement them. Second phase of the study: Questions and answers on the materia] presented in phase one. The conm1ittee will lim.it the questions in the first phase to alIow for presenters to focus on the methods now in use without having to answer why at that time. Third phase of the study: This phase of the study will consider ideas for improvement presented by the general public as wen as professionals. rh.k'é /)}Gltt(>t~,'SI.r tn-- RECOMMENDED MOTION: Designat/aírepresentative(S) from the Cass County Commission to develop and participate in the establishment of a multi-jurisdictional advisory committee to provide a fonnal avenue for discussion on the effects our areas cun-ent methods of special assessments may have on the local jurisdictions, residents and growth. The designated representative will attend those meetings to be held in the Fargo Commission room once the multi-jurisdictional advisory committee is established and report back to their board. The term of the study will not exceed 6 months after the first meeting is held, without majority approval from that representative's board. Fargo-Moorhead tI:8.'d fin"! 2DOD ':) Printed on Recycled paper.