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Item No.10C Meeting Date: December 6, 2004 Type of Business: CB WK: Work Session; PH: Public Hearing; CA: Consent Agenda; CB: Council Business City Administrator Review _______ City of Mounds View Staff Report To: Honorable Mayor and City Council From: Greg Lee, Director of Public Works Item Title/Subject: Storm Water Utility Discuss the Methodology of Assigning the Rate Background: Since 1993, the City of Mounds View has operated a Storm Water Utility. A storm water utility is a method of funding the construction and maintenance of storm water drainage facilities. It is similar in nature to the water and sewer utilities operated by the City. Within the City of Mounds View, the need to control sediment and pollution entering our lakes and wetlands and to control storm water runoff has been increasing. PROGRAMS FUNDED BY THE UTILITY • Wetland enhancement and maintenance • Water quality modeling and monitoring • Water quality enhancement projects • Detention basin maintenance and construction • Storm sewer extensions • Drainage system maintenance and reconstruction • Removal of sediment from ponds and wetlands • Ditch and culvert maintenance On August 23 1993, City Council approved Ordinance No. 529 establishing a Storm Water Utility. This has since been included in the City Code as Chapter 908 (See attached). Discussion: The City’s Code, as it pertains to the establishment of the Storm Water Utility, was intended to ”be just and equitable, to assign responsibility for some or all of the future costs of operating, maintaining, and improving the system on the basis of the expected storm water runoff from the various parcels of land within the City during a standard one-year rainfall event.”