Agenda Packets - 1983/10/10 - Laserfiche WebLink

Home Browse Search

MEMO TO: Mayor and City Council FROM: Clerk -Administrator DATE: October 3, 1983 SUBJECT: GOVERNOR'S BLUE RIBBON CITIZENS COMMISSION ON THE METROPOLITAN WASTE CONTROL COMMISSION Attached please find a letter from John Boland, Chairman of the Governor's Blue Ribbon Citizens Commission to review the Metropolitan Waste Control Commission, requesting our comments regarding the interaction of the MWCC with the City of Mounds View. staff has reviewed this letter and our present relationships with the MWCC and would offer the following comments for consideration by the City Council for inclusion with those you might wish to make to the Governor's Commission. These comments are as follows: 1. The organization is so monolithic that it is at best diffi- cult to obtain concise information about those aspects of the MWCC operation having the greatest impact upon our community. 2. Our needs are being met as it relates to the handling and treatment of sewage, however, the substantial increases in the cost of the system levied on the City on an annual basis has become burdensome to the point that it is limiting our ability to maintain our local system. Annual billings from the MWCC have been of such a magnitude, particularly in light of the more than substantial percentage increase in their budget, that the City has been unable in good conscience to pass these increases along to the consumer and as a result we have been forced, until very recently, to reduce our operating budget, thus, not providing for the adequate maintenance of our system. 3. It greatly distresses us to learn from the local news media LhaL iL is the posiLiun of donne uL the staff of the MWCC that all users of the system will be expected to pay for a storm water/sanitary sewer separation system when only a select portion of the system's users will benefit from the project. We feel that we should not be held financially responsible for correcting the deficiencies of a system caused by a decision of one community to cut their original construction costs and now expect all communities in the system to rectify.