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COUNCIL MINUTES JANUARY 23, 2006 APPROVED 90 PUBLIC SAFETY DEPARTMENT REPORT, DAVE PECCHIA 91 92 A. Approval of request to renew contract with Otter Tail Animal Control Center 93 94 Police Chief Pecchia summarized the Staff report, indicating Staff recommends approval. 95 96 Councilmember O'Donnell moved to approve the annual renewal of the Otter Lake Animal Control 97 contract. Councilmember Reinert seconded the motion. 98 99 Motion carried unanimously. 100 101 PUBLIC SERVICES DEPARTMENT REPORT, RICK DEGARDNER 102 103 There was none. 104 105 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT REPORT, MICHAEL GROCHALA 106 107 A. Annual Storm Water Pollution Prevention Program, Jim Jacques (TKDA) 108 109 City Engineer Studenski summarized the Staff report, and introduced Jim Jacques from TKDA. 110 11 Mr. Jacques introduced himself, noting his firm did the City's Storm Water Pollution Prevention Aoki 12 Program. He stated that as required under the Clean Water Act, this is the annual public meeting. He 113 reviewed the components of the SWPPP, the items started, and/or those completed in 2005. 114 115 Councilmember O'Donnell indicated this is the second storm water agenda item already this year as 116 the result of Federal and State regulations, and he asked if Mr. Jacques foresees further regulations 117 and mandates that will be further imposed on storm water management. He questioned if the City 118 gets any funding to help deal with the mandates. 119 120 Mr. Jacques stated he does, noting he would expect more regulations from both State and Federal 121 levels. He indicated that cities do not directly get money to help fund the mandates. 122 123 Community Development Director Grochala indicated that the majority of the storm water 124 requirements are paid by development, with the remainder paid by general property taxes. 125 126 Councilmember O'Donnell commented that some cities are looking at a utility fee for storm water 127 management. He stated that he knows no one wants to look at additional tax, but the City Council 128 needs to look at a way to pay for these mandates, and maybe basing it on usage is the best way to do 129 so. He indicated that he believes the feasibility study the City Council directed will be important. 130 131 Councilmember Reinert expressed a point of clarity on the feasibility study, indicating that the utility 132 fee is not a new fee, and the cost is already being paid for by the general fund, which residents pay. 1133 He indicated that the utility fee would be looking at a more fair way of charging everyone, based on 134 usage, and there would not be additional dollars created by the fee.