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Item No. 9C Meeting Date: September 8, 2003 Type of Business: Council Business City of Mounds View Staff Report To: Honorable Mayor and City Council From: Charles Hansen, Finance Director Item Title/Subject: Public Hearing, First Reading, and Consideration of Ordinance 718 Implementing a Franchise Fee on Xcel Energy Electric and Natural Gas Operations within the City of Mounds View for the Year 2004 Attached is an ordinance to receive a first reading at a Public Hearing on Monday, September 8, 2003. A notice of the Public Hearing was published in the August 20, 2003 edition of the New Brighton-Mounds View Bulletin. This ordinance continues the agreement with Xcel Energy under which Xcel Energy will collect a franchise fee in the amount of 4% of Xcel’s electric and natural gas gross operating revenues for services within the City of Mounds View during the year 2004. Ordinance 518 passed on October 13, 1992 originally enacted the franchise agreement. It provides that the City may impose a franchise fee of not more than 4% of Xcel’s gross operating revenues at any time during the 20-year term of the franchise. The 20-year term runs from 1993 through 2012 and the franchise fee was first collected in 1993. A sunset provision in the ordinance requires it to be re-enacted each year. Franchise fees of $192,000 for the General Fund and $192,000 for the Street Improvement Fund are included in the draft 2004 budget. Enactment of the ordinance is essential to preserving this revenue source and balancing the 2004 budget. The ordinance will be brought back to the City Council for second reading and adoption at the September 22, 2003 meeting. It will then be published in the Focus News and take effect 30 days after publication. Respectfully Submitted, Charles Hansen