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Mounds View City Council June 12, 2000 <br />Regular Meeting Page 10 <br />• There were no further requests or comments from the floor. <br />10. COUNCIL BUSINESS <br />A. Discussion and First Reading of Ordinance 660: Franchise Fee Ordinance <br />Amending Ordinance 643. <br />City Attorney Long stated the Council adopted a Franchise Ordinance regulating Reliant <br />Energy/Minnegasco in the fall of 1999. He advised that before the Council could adopt the <br />Franchise Fee Ordinance, the Franchise Ordinance had to take effect, and therefore, it was <br />required to go through a publication process. He indicated that staff reviewed this paperwork to <br />ensure it was in proper order prior to beginning to collect the franchise fee, and during this <br />review it was discovered that the Franchise Fee Ordinance had not been placed back on the <br />Agenda for adoption. He explained that this item was to put things in proper order so that the <br />City could begin to collect the franchise fee. He advised that the blank space in Subd. 2 of the <br />ordinance should indicate January 1, 2000. <br />Mayor Coughlin inquired if this ordinance would therefore be retroactive to the first of the year. <br />City Attorney Long stated this was correct, adding that this had all been approved in December <br />of 1999. He advised that by State Statute, the City must receive a written consent from the <br />Utility, and Reliant Energy/Minnegasco had provided its written consent in December of 1999, <br />however, the item was never placed back on the Agenda. <br />Council Member Quick requested clarification regarding the date to be inserted into the blank <br />space in the ordinance. City Attorney Long stated January 1, 2000. <br />MOTION/SECOND: Marty/Quick. To Waive the Reading and Approve the First Reading of <br />Ordinance No. 660, an Ordinance Implementing a Franchise Fee on Reliant Energy Minnegasco <br />Natural Gas Operations within the City of Mounds View. <br />ROLL CALL: Marty, Quick, Stigney, Coughlin <br />Ayes - 4 Nays - 0 Motion carried. <br />B. Resolution 5451 Establishing a Park Dedication Fund and Transferring Park <br />Dedication Funds from the General Fund and the Recreation Fund to Said <br />Fund. <br />Finance Director Kessel stated approximately one month ago, the Council discussed the transfer <br />of the Park Dedication Fund out of the General Fund to provide that it could be more easily <br />tracked. He added that because the YMCA is now managing Recreation Programming, this <br />account is no longer necessary, and the Council had discussed transferring the remaining balance <br />• of $103,000 to the Park Dedication Fund. He advised that of this newly created Park Dedication <br />