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Mounds View City Council — - - - Page Fifteen Regular Meeting October 13, 1992 • agreement go into effect. John Thomson stated that the present franchise fee expires May 1, 1998. The existing franchise fee agreement allows the City to implement a franchise fee of up to 4% and if fee was implemented it would be paid yearly. The City went to NSP and negotiated to have the fee collected monthly and paid monthly to the City. Councilmember Rickaby stated that a young man had attended a past Council meeting and was concerned with the City's franchise fee because he thought more environmental issues should be written into it. He then stated that he supported the franchise fee because it would discourage high end users. With the sliding scale the high energy users could decide to use more because they could fit into a smaller rate. • MOTION/SECOND: Wuori/Quick to approve Ordinance No. 517 Granting NSP an Electric Franchise VOTE: Mayor Linke - aye Councilmember Quick - aye 40 Councilmember Rickaby - no Councilmember Blanchard - aye Councilmember Wuori - aye • Motion Passes. MOTION/SECOND: Quick Blanchard to approve Ordinance No. 518 Granting NSP a Gas Energy Franchise Mayor Linke - aye Councilmember Quick - aye Councilmember Rickaby -. no Councilmember Blanchard---aye Councilmember Wuori - aye Mayor Linke stated that in regards to Ordinance No. 519 Implementing a Gas and Electric Franchise Fee the Council has many options. The options were read and reviewed by Mayor Linke. Charles Miller stated that if Perot gave us a check for $155,000 the City would still be affected by State cuts in June. Mayor Linke stated if the City received cuts in HACA or LGA the City would be $100K short; The City would then have to look into budget reserves. Mayor Linke stated that the property tax increase should • have been 10 or 11%. Charles Miller stated that the increase should be put on property tax