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Page Ter. <br />Mounds View City Council September 13, 93 <br />Regular Meeting <br />Mayor Linke stated that the street light utility fund is a designated fund <br />and those monies are collected and expended for the purpose of street light <br />operation and maintenance. <br />Samantha Orduno, City Administrator, stated that the City doesn't have an <br />undesignated fund for long. Most of time the surplus from an account is <br />designated promptly. <br />Ed Werdien, 6940 Silver Lake Road, asked why the City is taking $200,000 <br />from the water and sewer fund to put an expansion on the City Hall building. <br />Mr. Werdien stated he read this in The Bulletin. Mr. Werdien suggested <br />letting the rates go down and don't do any work on the City Hall building. <br />Mr. Werdien stated that the building needs no expansion. Mr. Werdien stated <br />that Mounds View has the highest water and sewer rates around. The only <br />City lower is Lino Lakes. <br />Orduno stated that there is a certain amount to be transferred from one fund <br />and placed in another. <br />Naja Werner read from The Bulletin the following, "Currently, the city hall <br />building fund has a $371,000 balance. The additional money for the project <br />will be transferred from the city's general, sewer, water and undesignated <br />funds." Naja Werner questioned, "what is a designated fund"" <br />�,rduno explained that a designated fund is a fund where the money that goes <br />into it is designated to buy equipment and services for a certain program. <br />These funds can be transferred from one fund to another. In times where <br />there are undesignated funds or surplus funds where the City has spent less <br />than budgeted, those funds are undesignated until they are designated. <br />Naja Werner stated that then if there were a certain amount of money for <br />sewer and the taxpayer thinks it is being used for sewer, the Council can <br />actually use it elsewhere. <br />Mayor. Linke stated that if the money were to be taken out of water it would <br />be use.: for something to do with that department. <br />Orduno explained that the rates are lower in New Brighton because of the <br />army settlement that happened years ago and the money is used to buy down <br />sewer and water rates. <br />Bill Frits, 8072 Long Lake Road, stated that a sunset was provided on this <br />utility so that the utility could come to an end so that the City could <br />assess what had taken place and go on from there. Mr. Frits stated that now <br />is the time to end the utility and assess its success or failure. <br />Mayor Linke stated that the rate is morn than what is requested because <br />there now is a track record. If the street light utility were to continue <br />the rate could now be lowered. Mayor Linke stated that he has been <br />thatothe <br />to sunsetting this utility since the very beginning. <br />