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Surveyor outlines drain maintenance fee schedule and options for county pond outlet; board to review rates and limit hearings
Summary
At the Aug. 21 meeting the DeKalb County surveyor's office presented a proposed, objective maintenance-rate schedule based on reconstruction estimates and recommended procedures for collections, reconstruction funding and hearings; the board discussed county pond outlet elevations and asked staff for further cost and elevation data.
The DeKalb County surveyor's office on Aug. 21 presented a proposed framework for establishing maintenance collections and reconstruction funding that, staff said, would make rate-setting more objective and help build maintenance reserves before major reconstructions.
Under the proposal staff said reconstruction cost-per-foot estimates (labor and material, excluding stone) would be the basis for a "max collect" maintenance account for each regulated drain. Staff described key rules: the maintenance "max collect" would be 60% of the reconstruction cost estimate; the annual assessment (what landowners would be billed) would be one-quarter of that max collect amount and would be collected once per…
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