Comprehensive Annual Financial Report 12/31/1995

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CITY OF LINO LAKES, MINNESOTA NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS December 31, 1995 Note 7 METROPOLITAN COUNCIL ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES During 1971, the Metropolitan Waste Control Commission (MWCC) was organized to provide for consolidation of the sanitary sewer collection, treatment and disposal in the seven county metropolitan area NEM surrounding Minneapolis and St. Paul. Previously, these operations were maintained by the city governments on an individual or collective basis. The MWCC merged with the Metropolitan Council during 1994 to form Metropolitan Council Wastewater Services (MCWS) and is now called the Metropolitan Council Environmental Services (MCES). The MCES bills the City annually based upon estimated volume and budgeted costs. These billings are later adjusted when actual volume and actual costs are determined. The adjustment to actual is generally determined in the succeeding calendar year and payable by the City in the second succeeding calendar year. The City follows the accounting policy of recognizing these charges as an expense of the sewer utility operation in the year for which they are billed (for estimated billings) and in the year the adjustments are determined (for adjustments from estimated to actual billings). Note 8 RECONCILIATION OF CONTRIBUTED CAPITAL Changes to contributed capital during the year are as follows: Depreciation Beginning Capital on Contributed Ending Balance Contributions Assets Balance Water $4,529,670 $796,899 ($105,626) $5,220,943 Sewer 7,432,297 1,030,600 (175,829) 8,287,068 Total $11,961,967 $1,827,499 ($281,455) $13,508,011 Note 9 DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLAN The City offers its employees a deferred compensation plan created in accordance with Internal Revenue Code Section 457. The deferred compensation plan is offered by the International City Managers Association. The plan, available to all employees, permits them to defer a portion of their salary until future years. The deferred compensation is not available to the employees until termination, retirement, death or an unforeseeable emergency. All amounts of compensation deferred under the plan, all property and rights purchased with those amounts, and all income attributable to those amounts, property or rights are (until paid or made available to the employee or other beneficiary) solely the property and rights of the City (without being restricted to the provisions of benefits under the plan), subject only to the claims of the City's general creditors. Participants' rights under the plan are equal to those of general creditors of the City in an amount equal to the fair market value of the deferred account for each participant. It is the City's opinion that it has no liability for losses under the plan but does have the duty of due care that would be required of an ordinary prudent investor. The City believes that it is unlikely that it will use the assets to satisfy the claims of general creditors in the future. Included in the Agency Funds on the combined balance sheet is $362,109 of funds recorded at market value and primarily held by insurance companies in various investment pools for future payment of plan benefits. 41