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Council approves special-assessment district for Ultra Sports Complex after debate over funding and bidding timeline
Summary
The City Council approved creating a special-assessment district to pay most infrastructure costs for the Ultra Sports Complex, while members pressed staff on a compressed design and bidding schedule and how sales-tax revenues will cover assessments.
The Grand Forks City Council voted to create a special-assessment district for Project 8933, the Ultra Sports Complex, after extended discussion about who will pay the assessments and whether the city should bid an early procurement package before final design estimates are complete.
Council President Sandy led the motion to form the district; Councilmember Berg seconded. Councilmember Osofsky registered dissent before the final vote.
Council members and staff spent more than an hour on the item, focusing on the project’s funding formula and procurement timeline. City staff said roughly $8.7 million of the project will be covered through special assessment mechanisms identified on the district map; that figure is the sum of two line items described in the staff packet (4.467 and 4.238 on the district summary). The city plans to use a three-quarter percent sales tax to pay the portion of…
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