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UNAPPR OVED Page 4 August 21, 1995 1 Mike Ulrich, Director of Public Works explained that at the July 17, 1995 meeting of the 2 City Council, staff presented an amendment to Ordinance No. 565, Chapter 906.04, 3 Subdivision 4, Liability for Repairs. A sentence was added as follows: "The 4 Municipality shall provide repair of any impervious surface, should it be necessary in the 5 performance of the repair of a leak or break of the property's service". 6 7 Mayor Linke closed the Public Hearing at 7:10 p.m. 8 9 MOT_ION/SE_COND. Hankner/Quick to approve Oidinance No. 565.Amending the 10 Mounds View Municipal Code Chapter 906.04, Entitled, "Liability for Repairs". 11 12 VOTE: 5 ayes 0 nays Motion Carried 13 14 Council member Trude explained that this ordinance was a compromise among the 15 Council members to prevent a hardship situation. 16 17 Informational Meeting on Proposal to Update the City's Water Meter Reading System: 18 19 Mayor Linke opened the Informational Meeting at 7:10 p.m. 20 21 Mike Ulrich, Director of Public Works explained that the City Council and staff have had 22 a number of discussions in regard to the possibility of changing the City's water meters 23 and meter reading system. This was in response to concerns relayed by the City's Water 24 Utility staff that the water system was not accurately monitoring the real amount of water 25 that is being used by some of the residents. To test the accuracy of the meters, staff 26 conducted a random testing of residential and commercial meters which were installed 27 between 1963 and 1990's. The average accuracy rate was 98% for residential meters and 28 90% for commercial meters. Therefore, based upon the small representation of meters 29 that were tested, the average accuracy of residential and commercial meters was 94%. 30 When the meters were tested, based on annual water consumption and billing amounts, it 31 was estimated that the City is losing approximately $31,000 per year. The City Council 32 directed staff to seek proposals to update the meters in the city. 33 34 The City received proposals from two manufacturers to completely update the current 35 water meter system. Three options were presented: 36 37 1) change the current system to the most current advanced technology system(Phone 38 Read System)which would automatically initiate the meter to call to a central computer 39 at City Hall and relay the meter reading; 40 41 2) change the current system to a Touch Read System where a reading pad would be 42 installed on the outside of the house and a meter reader would use a reading device to