PUBLISH

(October 5, 12, 2021)

NOTICE OF HEARING ON FINAL SPECIAL ASSESSMENT ROLL

NOTICE IS HEREBY given that the City Council will hold a public hearing on Tuesday, October 19, 2021 at 4:30 p.m. at the Council Chambers in City Hall, 100 North Broadway in the City of New Ulm, Minnesota, and consider adoption of the reassessment prepared by the City Manager to defray the cost of the following improvements:

REASSESSMENT ROLL FOR THE 2005 LAKESIDE VILLAGE ADDITION AND 2007 DACOTAH WEST ADDITION

The improvements constructed on this project that are being specially assessed at this time are as follows:

Lot 20, Block 1 and Lots 2 – 4, Block 5, Lakeside Village Addition – Sanitary sewer main and water main on 23rd North Street from Terrace Drive to Boundary Street and on Boundary Street from Hoffman Road to Lake Avenue to serve the Lakeside Village Addition; grading and graveling on Boundary Street from Hoffman Road to 23rd North Street, restoration of Boundary Street south of 23rd North Street with a bituminous maintenance mat; sanitary sewer main, water main, sewer and water end services, storm sewer, storm water quality pond, grading, aggregate base and site grading with in Lakeside Village Addition (Phase I Development);

Lots 1 – 6 and Lots 21 – 28, Block 1, Lakeside Village Addition – Storm water quality pond and grading only within Lakeside Village Addition (Phase II Development);

Lot 2, Block 1, Dacotah West Addition – Sanitary sewer main, water main, sewer and water end services, storm sewer, site grading, storm water quality pond, grading and aggregate base on Dacotah Drive, Settler Trail, Benz Circle and the alley within Dacotah West Addition.

2005 Reassessment Lakeside Village Addition

Amount Proposed

To Be Assessed

Lot 2, Block 5

$ 9,748.59

Lot 3, Block 5

$ 9,748.59

Lot 4, Block 5

$ 9,748.59

Lot 1, Block 1

$ 2,917.88

Lot 2, Block 1

$ 2,917.88

Lot 3, Block 1

$ 2,917.88

Lot 4, Block 1

$ 2,917.88

Lot 5, Block 1

$ 2,917.88

Lot 6, Block 1

$ 2,917.88

Lot 21, Block 1

$ 2,917.88

Lot 22, Block 1

$ 2,917.88

Lot 23, Block 1

$ 2,917.88

Lot 24, Block 1

$ 2,917.88

Lot 25, Block 1

$ 2,917.88

Lot 26, Block 1

$ 2,917.88

Lot 27, Block 1

$ 2,917.8828

Lot 28, Block 1

$ 2,917.88

Lot 20, Block 1

$ 9,748.59

2007 Reassessment Dacotah West Addition Lot 2, Block 1

$ 25,921.51

The proposed assessment rolls are on file for public inspection at the City Finance Director’s office. Written or oral objections will be considered at the public hearing. No appeal may be taken as to the amount of an assessment unless a signed, written objection is filed with the Finance Director prior to the hearing or presented to the presiding officer at the hearing. After the public hearing the City Council may adopt the proposed special assessment roll. You will have 30 days from the adoption date to pay the entire final special assessment amount without interest to the Brown County Auditor-Treasurer’s Office. After such time, you may pay to the County Auditor the entire amount of the assessment remaining unpaid, plus the interest accrued to December 31st of the year in which such payment is made. Such payment to the County must be made before November 15th or interest will be charged through December 31st of the succeeding year. The unpaid balance of any assessment will be levied by Brown County and will be collected as an assessment on your property tax statement over a ten (10) year period along with a 5.5% percent simple interest charge on the unpaid balance for the Lakeside Village Addition parcels and a 6.0% percent simple interest charge on the unpaid balance for the Dacotah West Addition parcel.

An owner may appeal an assessment to district court pursuant to Minnesota Statutes Section 429.071 by serving notice of the appeal upon the Mayor or Finance Director 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 Finance Director.

Under Minnesota Statutes 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 for whom it would be a hardship to make these payments. When deferment of the special assessment has been granted and is terminated for any reason provided by law, all amounts accumulated plus applicable interest become due. Any assessed property owner meeting the requirements of this law and City Code Section 2.80 adopted under it may, within 30 days of the confirmation of the assessment apply to the Finance Director on such forms as are prescribed by the County Auditor for such deferral of payment of this special assessment on his property.

YOU ARE FURTHER NOTIFIED:

That the amount to be specially assessed against your property is $:_________________

PIN#:______________

Property Owner:_____

Legal Description:____

__________________

Questions regarding the proposed assessment should be directed to the City Engineer’s Office at (507)359-8245.

BY ORDER OF THE CITY

COUNCIL

Dated at New Ulm, Minnesota this 7th day of September 2021

Nicole L. Jorgensen

Finance Director

PUBLISH

(October 5, 2021)

NOTICE OF HEARING ON PROPOSED ASSESSMENT

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a public hearing will be held by the City Council of the City of New Ulm at the Council Chambers in the City Hall, 100 North Broadway Street in said City at 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, October 19, 2021, to pass upon the proposed assessment prepared by the City Manager to defray the cost of the following improvements:

2020-2021 Weed/Snow Removal, and Sidewalk Repair

The proposed assessment rolls are on file for public inspection at the City Finance Department. The following is a summary of the costs of these improvements:

Lot & Block

F 85′ of L 8, Blk 178 No. of Center

Address

326 N Payne St

$ amount

1,110.90

Description

2020 Sidewalk Repair

Lot & Block

F 1/2 of L 7, Blk 180 No. of Center

Address

127 N Jefferson St

$ amount

742.90

Description

2020 Sidewalk Repair

Lot & Block

W2 of L 8, Blk 180 No. of Center

Address

126 N Payne St

$ amount

402.50

Description

2020 Sidewalk Repair

Lot & Block

L 6, Blk 3 Milford Heights 1st Addn

Address

1701 Beinhorn St

$ amount

1,178.75

Description

2020 Sidewalk Repair

Lot & Block

L 2, Blk 69 No. of Center

Address

307 N Minnesota St

$ amount

223.00

Description

2020/2021 Snow Removal

Lot & Block

L 2, Blk 76 No. of Center

Address

1007 N Minnesota St

$ amount

445.20

Description

2020/2021 Snow Removal

Lot & Block

L 6, Blk 125 No. of Center

Address

1621 N Washington St

$ amount

91.00

Description

2020/2021 Snow Removal

Lot & Block

F 1/2 & W’LY 2.5″ of R 1/2 of L 8, Blk 133 No. of Center

Address

826 N Franklin St

$ amount

91.00

Description

2020/2021 Snow Removal

Lot & Block

L 6, Blk 5 Milford Heights 1st Addn

Address

528 Pfaender Dr

$ amount

91.00

Description

2020/2021 Snow Removal

Lot & Block

L 10, Blk 51 No. of Center

Address

1418 N Minnesota

$ Amount

325.00

Description

2021 Weed Removal

Lot & Block

L 2, Blk 76 No. of Center

Address

1007 N Minnesota St

$ amount

460.00

Description

2021 Weed Removal

Lot & Block

L 2, Blk 115 So. of Center

Address

904 S State St

$ amount

305.00

Description

2021 Weed Removal

Lot & Block

L 13, Blk 1 Fritsche Farm Addn.

Address

1015 S Front St

$ amount

350.00

Description

2021 Weed Removal

2020-2021 Weed/Snow Removal

Total Cost

$5,816.25 To Be Assessed $5,816.25

Written or oral objections will be considered at the meeting. No appeal may be taken as to the amount of an assessment unless a signed, written objection is filed with the Finance Director prior to the hearing or presented to the presiding officer at the hearing.

After the public hearing the City Council may adopt the proposed special assessment roll. You will have 30 days from the adoption date to pay the entire final special assessment amount to the City Finance Department. After such time, you may pay to the County Auditor the entire amount of the assessment remaining unpaid. The unpaid balance of any assessment will be levied by Brown County and will be collected as an assessment on your property tax statement the following year.

An owner may appeal an assessment to district court pursuant to Minnesota Statutes Section 429.081 by serving notice of the appeal upon the Mayor or Finance Director 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 Finance Director. Under Minnesota Statutes, Sections 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 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 by law, all amounts accumulated plus applicable interest become due. Any assessed property owner meeting the requirements of this law and City Code Section 2.80 adopted under it may, within 30 days of the confirmation of the assessment, apply to the Finance Director on such forms as are prescribed by the County Auditor for such deferral of payment of this special assessment on his property.

BY ORDER OF THE CITY COUNCIL

Dated at New Ulm, Minnesota this 7th day of September 2021.

Nicole L. Jorgensen

Finance Director

www.newulmmn.gov

PUBLISH

(September 28, October 5, 2021)

STATE OF MINNESOTA

COUNTY OF BROWN

FIFTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT

DISTRICT COURT

PROBATE DIVISION

Court File NO. 08-PR-21-805

Estate of Cecelia Isabel Scherer a/k/a Cecelia I. Scherer, Decedent

NOTICE AND ORDER OF HEARING ON PETITION FOR PROBATE OF WILL AND APPOINTMENT OF PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS

It is Ordered and Notice is given that on November 8, 2021, at 2:00, a hearing will be held in this Court at 14 S. State St. New Ulm, MN, Minnesota, for the formal probate of an instrument purporting to be the Will of the Decedent dated, June 2, 1995, (“Will”), and for the appointment of Leon T. Scherer, whose address is 27816 County Rd. 29, Sleepy Eye, MN, 56085 and Thomas A. Scherer, whose address is 29565 Hagen Avenue, Cannon Falls, MN, 55009 as Personal Representatives of the Estate of the Decedent in an UNSUPERVISED administration. Any objections to the petition must be filed with the Court prior to or raised at the hearing. If proper and if no objections are filed or raised, the Personal Representatives will be appointed with full power to administer the Estate including the power to collect all assets, to pay all legal debts, claims, taxes and expenses, to sell real and personal property, and to do all necessary acts for the Estate.

Notice is also given that (subject to Minnesota Statutes section 524.3-801) all creditors having claims against the Estate are required to present the claims to the Personal Representative or to the Court Administrator within four months after the date of this Notice or the claims will be barred.

BY THE COURT

Dated: 09/21/2021

/s/ Allison L. Krehbiel

Judge of District Court

Dated: 09/21/2021

Nancy L. Solberg

Court Administrator

By: Deputy

Attorney for Petitioner

Shari P. Fischer

Fischer Law PA

500 N. Broadway, PO Box 183

New Ulm, MN, 56073

Attorney License No:

391842

Telephone: (507)354-0327

Email: sharif@

fischerlaw.legal