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November 21, 1977 Mr. Joseph Chlebek City Clerk City of Little Canada 515 E. Little Canada Road Little Canada, Minnesota 55117 Dear Mr. Chlebek: Enclosed is the statement of 1978 Estimated Cost Allocation for your municipality in accordance with the 1978 Program Budget approved and adopted by the Metropolitan Waste Control Commission and the Metropoli- tan Council. Reserve Capacity costs will be allocated to your commu- nity in accordance with Service Availability Charge (SAC) policies. The SAC unit charge for 1978 is $400. The total annual estimated charges to your municipality are to be remit- ted to the Metropolitan Waste Control Commission in 12 equal monthly installments due on the first day of each month. The Commission will bill each municipality by mailing a monthly invoice approximately 30 days prior to due date. The first such installment is due on or before January 1, 1978. As a means of keeping local government units well informed, we have enclosed the Commission's 1978 Program Budget - -a document that will provide you with information on Commission programs and projects. The Commission budget has been prepared on a program budgeting format which emphasizes performance measurement and results. The format tells you a great deal about Waste Control Commission activities and how they attempt to meet the needs and requirements of the 101 local communi- ties served by the Commission. This format allows the Commission to outline a considerable amount of information in an understandable man- ner. Please take the time to study the 1978 Budget in detail - -it will be worth your while. Also enclosed is a copy of the 1976 Final Cost Allocation for your com- munity, Reports #2 through #5 from our Cost Allocation Program which show the relationship of cost and sewage flow data for all communities using the Metropolitan Disposal System, and the 1976 Financial Report. We would like to call to your attention that expenditures, as indicated in the 1976 Financial Report, totaled $35,796,534 or $73,962 less than the $35,870,496 budget. We feel most fortunate to have underspent the 1976 Budget, as the curtailment of natural gas (resulting in the use of fuel oil which is almost twice as expensive as natural gas) and the escalating cost of fuel oil itself, resulted in an overexpenditure for fuel oil amounting to $509,098. 00023