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ounds View-City Council Page Eighteen <br />~egular Meeting September 13, 1993 <br />Councilmember Trude is opposed to the utility and wants to keep the <br />funding on the property tax. Trude stated she has a problem with <br />making churches and schools pay. Trude stated if the projects are <br />dispersed throughout the City equally, then it is up to the people to <br />decide how it should be funded. Trude is opposed to the churches and <br />schools reducing her rates. If the cost is to benefit the whole city <br />it should go on the property taxes. Trude stated there is a great deal <br />of antagonism towards the proposed new utility fee. Trude stated if <br />the projects are important and critical, then the items should be put <br />into the budget now as part of the upkeep of our streets. <br />McCarty asked if the City were to go with the surface water utility <br />charge how does the City propose to show benefit to the people. <br />Jim Thomson,' City Attorney, stated that the theory behind the surface <br />water management utility is that the City doesn't have to show benefit. <br />McCarty stated that is what is wrong with it, you tax people without <br />showing benefit. <br />Jim Thomson stated that there is a general benefit to the City for <br />implementing the utility. <br />• Mayor Linke stated that the utility is a benefit to the City as a <br />whole. <br />Trude stated that it would be a 6 percent increase from last year's <br />amount of tax to fund all of these projects. Trude suggested perhaps <br />these projects should funded from a combination of sources. <br />Ruth White asked how the whole city would benefit from the Ardan Avenue <br />project which seems to be a conflict of interest with one of our <br />Councilmembers. <br />Mayor Linke stated that the Council is looking at the benefit to the <br />community as a whole rather than a portion of it. <br />MOTION/SECOND: Quick/Wuori to Adopt Ordinance No. 529, Scenario 2, <br />Establishing a Surface Water Utility and Amending Mounds View Municipal <br />Code by Adding Chapter 73 <br />Trude noticed on that scenario the churches-pay a stiffer fee. Trude <br />questioned if the businessmen have had an opportunity to express their <br />viewpoints. <br />Mayor Linke does not support Scenario #2, because he feels Scenario #1 <br />is treats all properties as though all soils are the same. <br /> <br />