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410Mounds View City Council Page Nine <br /> Regular Meeting November 25, 1991 <br /> William Werner, Jr. , asked what's going to happen down the line as <br /> taxes and alternative revenues grow and the taxpayers can't afford it. <br /> Mr. Werner wonders if down the line the City will look at a <br /> parks maintenance fee like Vadnais Heights did. Werner questions <br /> if the City will wait until the taxpayer forgets about the street <br /> light utility and then impose another tax. Mr. Werner suggested <br /> that the City should look into user fees for services. <br /> Mr. Werner, Jr. , stated that the City has more specific items that <br /> could be user-based fees than street lights . Mr. Werner, Jr. , <br /> inidicated the possible football fields, baseball fields and parks <br /> could have a user-based fee imposed on the persons who use them. <br /> Mr. Werner, Jr. , stated that with this street light utility his <br /> charge should be based on the light or safety that one receives from <br /> it. <br /> Mayor Linke stated that when you come to an intersection and it is lit <br /> that is safety. <br /> Mayor Linke stated that adult softball generates $15,000 worth of <br /> revenue over and above their costs . Mayor Linke stated the City <br /> • imposes user fees now. Mayor Linke further stated that one of the <br /> user fees the City had was the licensing of contractors for work <br /> they were doing in the City. The State of Minnesota is doing it <br /> now. Mayor Linke stated that part of the money the City lost from <br /> these revenues is what pays the building inspector's wages and now <br /> that money has to be taken out of someplace else. <br /> Mayor Linke entertained a motion for the second reading of Ordinance <br /> No. 497 Implementing a Street Light Utilitiy. <br /> MOTION/SECOND: Quick/Wuori to waive second reading and adopt <br /> Ordinance No. 497 Implementing a Street Light Utility. <br /> Councilmember Blanchard stated that before a vote was taken on this <br /> item she would like t sunset clause be added-in. Could <br /> the maker and seconder of the motion be asked if the would go along <br /> with adding a Section VIII stating that the ordinance would be <br /> automatically repealed as of December 31, 1993 unless earlier <br /> enacted upon by the City Council. <br /> The amendment was accepted by the Maker and Seconder of the Motion. <br /> Councilmember- Rickaby reiterated what she had said at the last meeting <br /> regarding this subject. Rickaby commented on what Harry Bryant <br /> stated to the Council regarding his taxes . Rickaby stated that <br /> the state has built in a circuit breaker for those persons whose <br /> • taxes have gone up more than 10% -- the overamount doesn't have to <br /> be paid. Rickaby stated that this circuit breaker was created <br /> for those who are not so well off or whose homes are not of a high <br />