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APR - 2 1990 <br />Michael P. Severin <br />8012 - 50th Street North <br />Lake Elmo, Minnesota 55042 <br />March 30, 1990 <br />Lake Elmo City Council <br />3800 Laverne Avenue North <br />Lake Elmo, Minnesota 55042 <br />Dear Council Members: <br />This letter is regarding the public hearing which was <br />conducted on March 20, 1990, on the 201 sewer charge <br />increase. <br />First, I would like to explain my situation in the 201 <br />program. I maintain the pumps, electricity, tanks and <br />all other working parts of my septic system, and will be <br />required to repair anything that fails at my own expense. <br />The only part of 201 that the City is responsible for <br />is a huge pile of sand adjacent to my property on a. <br />small City owned lot. If the system performs as I was <br />told it would, it should last forever and never need <br />anything but a yearly mow job. <br />It is fairly obvious that other systems throughout the <br />City do and will require much more maintenance and <br />expense than my system ever will. To charge me as I <br />have been and more or less ask me to subsidize other <br />systems throughout the City is grossly unfair. It would <br />be no more unfair to charge every household in Lake Elmo <br />a sewer charge to fund 201 maintenance;. which doesn't <br />sound like a bad idea, since the installation of the 201 <br />program benefitted everyone in the City with the <br />elimination of failed systems polluting our lakes and <br />ground water, and eliminating the need for costly city <br />sewer. <br />I ask that this City Council take a good look at the <br />fairness of the current system with regards to people <br />like myself. There has to be a better and more fair way <br />to implement the current sewer charges. <br />I would like to pay for services rendered to my site, not <br />a broken pipe on 32nd Street. <br />Respectfully, <br />Michael P. Severin <br />MPS:mas <br />cc: Mr. Tom Okoneski, Esq. <br />