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REQUEST FOR COUNCIL CONSIDERATION Agenda Section: 9 .D <br /> 93585C <br /> STAFF REPORT Report Date: 8-5-93-5-9 3 <br /> 1111 <br /> :EN Council Action: <br /> 0 Special Order of Business <br /> ❑ Public Hearings <br /> CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE <br /> A ttr�t s t 9 , 1993 ❑ Consent Agenda <br /> q Council Business <br /> Item Description: <br /> Introduction of Ordinance No 529 Establishing a Surface Water <br /> Management Utility and Amending Mounds View Municipal Code by Adding Chapter 73 <br /> Administrator's Review/Recommendation: <br /> - No comments to supplement this report <br /> - Comments attached. <br /> Explanation/Summary (attach supplement sheets as necessary.) <br /> UMMARY; <br /> On June 21, 1993, the City conducted a public information meeting on the proposed Surface <br /> Water Management Utility (SWMU). The informational meeting was preceded by four Council <br /> meetings in which the utility concept was discussed with other financing options. <br /> The official public hearing on the proposed Surface Water Management Utility was held on <br /> July 28, 1993. <br /> The ordinance establishing the utility will be introduced at the Council Meeting on August 9, <br /> 1993. <br /> Perhaps the best way to describe the purpose of establishing the Surface Water Management <br /> Utility is found in Section .I, Subdivision 2, (b) of the attached ordinance. <br /> "The system [storm water system], as constructed, heretofore has been financed and <br /> paid for through ad valorem taxes. Such financing methods were appropriate to the <br /> circumstances at the time they were used. It is now necessary and desirable to provide an <br /> alternative method of recovering some or all of the future costs of improving, maintaining and <br /> operating the system through the imposition of user charges." <br /> The bottom line is simple: the City of Mounds View (preceded by numerous other cities) can <br /> no longer fund all basic system services based exclusively on the dollar value of property. The <br /> old concepts that were once so much a part of funding municipal operations and based on <br /> property taxes have given way, out of financial necessity and social demands, to more <br /> equitable "user" fee concepts that place responsibility and payment for services onto the <br /> "users" of a sys just the taxable property owners. <br /> A,i't tfi,- .&(,(e-1,61,-ye-SZ---- <br /> Saman a Orduno, City Administrator <br /> RECOMME DATA: <br /> Motion to waive the reading and formally introduce Ordinance No. 529 Establishing a Surface Water Management <br /> Utility and Amending the Mounds View Code by Adding Chapter 73 <br />