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Clerk-Administratnr. and City Council Page Three of Four I turned into purchases of the water meters. The Utility Account- ing Clerk, the Finance Director and I have discussed this issue and we are all in agreement that we should send a letter to all apartment owners notifying them that as of a certain date the City will no longer he refunding the prepayments but will treat the prepayment as a purchase of the water meter and the City will no longer be collecting prepayments from new owners of apartment buildings. This does not have to be a change in the Code. It is a procedural change that we can implement on the staff level and would like you to know about. This procedure is working very ,.ii F^r rha huildinos in business and industrial zones. This procedural change will save the Utility Accounting Clerk adin'11- stration time transfering prepayments from the old owner to the new owner. As you may know, apartments can change owners rapidly. CHAPTER 71, MUNICIPAL SANITARY SEWER I recommend two changes to this section of the Code. Section 71.07, Subd. 6, Measurement Tests. In this section of the Code the words, "Minnesota Department of Health" should be replaced with "Minnesota pollution Control Agency". The next change that I recommend is in Section 71.10, Maintenance of Sewer. At the present time, each property owner is respon- sible for keeping the sewer line from his building to the sewer main in the street clean. In addition, the property owner is responsible for repairs to the service line from his building to the property line. The City then is responsible for repairs to the service line from the property line to the sewer main in the street. I understand that this is a recent change in the Code and that previously the property owners were responsible for repairs to the service line from their building to the sewer main in the street. The present wording of the Ordina,we has caused the City the same type of problems that we discussed previously under the Water Code. I recommend changing this section of the Code to read that the property owner is responsible for repairs to the service line from his building to the sewer main. There is one other issue I wish to discuss. The issue involves the infrastructure of a mobile home court we have in Mounds View. To begin with, let me provide some background. As you know, the City is in the process of maintaining its infra- structure (water, sewer, streets, storm sewer). As you may also know, the infrastructure of a mobile home court is owned by the owner of the mobile home court. This means that if a water main breaks, water service line freezes, fire hydrant is not operable,