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RESOLUTION NO. 1430 CITY OF MOUNDS VIEW COUNTY OF RAMSEY STATE OF MINNESOTA RESOLUTION OPPOSING ACQUISITION AND EXTENSION OF NEW BRIGHTON TRUNK SEWER WHEREAS, the City of Arden Hills has determined that the trunk sanitary sewer in District W is inadequate due to sewage flows from District NC; and WHEREAS, the City of Arden Hills has determined that the most cost efficient and engineeringly effective method for the alleviating of the identified problem is to divert the sewage flows from District NC into a Trunk Sewer owned and operated by the City of New Brighton; and WHEREAS, the City of Arden Hills has requested the Metro- politan Waste Control Commission designate the New Brighton trunk sewer as a metropolitan interceptor, acquire the trunk sewer from the City of New Brighton, and extend said sewer to allow connection with the Arden Hills sewer system; and WHEREAS, the Metropolitan Waste Control Commission has given support to the request of the City of Arden Hills; and WHEREAS, the designation of New Brighton's trunk, sewer as a metropolitan interceptor and its subsequent acquisition and extension will significantly affect the communities of Sewer Service Area No. 2 of which Mounds View is a member; and WHEREAS, the Mounds View City Council feels that the acquisition and extension of New Brighton's trunk sewer, as proposed by the City of Arden Hills, would not benefit Sewer Service Area No. 2 and should not be financially supported by Sewer Service Area No. 2 system users. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council of the City of Mounds View strongly opposes the proposed Metropolitan Waste Control Commission acquisition and extension of New Brighton's trunk sewer to serve Arden Hills for the following reasons: 1. The proposed acquisition would excessively benefit the CiLy of New BiiyhLun as the Value Credit of $1,134,526.31 proposed to be given to New Brighton by the Metropolitan Waste Control Commission exneds the net cost to the City for originally constructing the line ($862,311.69) before the remaining outstanding bonds ($491,492.00), which will be assumed by the Metropolitan Waste Control Commission, are deducted.