PUBLISH

(August 30, Sep-

tember 6, 2019)

COTTONWOOD

TOWNSHIP

NOTICE OF PUBLIC

HEARING

PLEASE TAKE NO-

TICE, that on the 12th

day of September,

2019, at 7:00 p.m., at

the Cottonwood Town

Hall, Searles, MN, in

Cottonwood Township,

Brown County, Min-

nesota, the Town

Board of Supervisors

of Cottonwood Town

will hold a public hear-

ing regarding assess-

ments for the cost of

paving the town roads

within the area com-

monly known as

Meadow Creek Drive.

The total amount of the

proposed assessment

for the entire project is

$113,500.00. The

amount proposed to be

assessed per parcel is

$7,094.00. The area

proposed to be as-

sessed are all proper-

ties adjacent to or

benefited by the pave-

ment project in

Meadow Creek Drive

using the unit method

of assessment.

At or after the Public

Hearing Noticed

above, the Cottonwood

Town Board may adopt

the proposed assess-

ment. You have the

right to prepay the en-

tire assessment by

making payment to the

Cottonwood Town

Clerk. Partial prepay-

ment has not been au-

thorized by ordinance.

You have until De-

cember 31, 2019, to

make prepayment

without the assess-

ment of interest. In-

terest will accrue at 5%

if the assessment is

not prepaid within the

required time period.

NO APPEAL MAY BE

TAKEN AS TO THE

AMOUNT OF ANY AS-

SESSMENT ADOPT-

ED BY THE TOWN

BOARD PURSUANT

TO MINN. STAT. Å’

429.061, SUBDIVI-

SION 2, UNLESS A

WRITTEN OBJEC-

TION SIGNED BY

THE AFFECTED LAN-

DOWNER IS FILED

WITH THE COTTON-

WOOD TOWN CLERK

PRIOR TO THE AS-

SESSMENT HEAR-

ING OR PRESENTED

TO THE PRESIDING

OFFICER AT THE

HEARING.

AN OWNER MAY AP-

PEAL AN ASSESS-

MENT TO DISTRICT

COURT PURSUANT

TO MINNESOTA STA-

TUTES SECTION

429.081 BY SERVING

NOTICE OF THE AP-

PEAL UPON THE

COTTONWOOD

TOWN BOARD CHAIR

OR CLERK WITHIN 30

DAYS AFTER THE

ADOPTION OF THE

ASSESSMENT AND

FILING SUCH NO-

TICE WITH THE DIS-

TRICT COURT

WITHIN TEN DAYS

AFTER SERVICE

UPON THE COTTON-

WOOD TOWN

BOARD CHAIR OR

CLERK. MINNESOTA

STATUTES SEC-

TIONS 435.193

THROUGH 435.195

AUTHORIZE TOWNS

TO ADOPT PRO-

CEDURES FOR

DEFERRING AS-

SESSMENTS FOR

HOMESTEAD PRO-

PERTIES IN CERTAIN

CIRCUMSTANCES

WHERE THE AS-

SESSMENT WOULD

WORK A HARDSHIP.

COTTONWOOD

TOWN, HOWEVER,

HAS NOT ADOPTED

ANY SUCH DEFER-

MENT STANDARDS

OR GUIDELINES.

Dated this 26th day of

August, 2019.

Lisa Leskey