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MEMORANDUM
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TO: Mayor and Council April Ist, 1976

FROM: L.D. Pollock
City Administrator

Re: Local Improvement Charges '

At the regular Council meeting of March 15th, I was asked to prepare a

Under the present provisions of the Municipal Act, the City has two

alternatives in charging for local improvement works. We have been

rates per front foot of Property. These are set out in our present By-
law No. 912. The second alternative under the Act involves establishing
the Proportion of cost of the work that is to be specially charged
against the benefitting Parcels for each Class of work, that is, say
Council determined that 50% of Pavement Cos¢ would be charged against
benefitting Properties, then the Project would be carried out, costed,
and 50% of the cost charged against the owners. The City did use this
second alternative for many years, however, it was discarded due to the

fact that 1) it resulted in different front foot rates for every project

cost that they would be likely to Pay until after the work was finished.