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WILLIAM L WILoON <br />C"wAAwn <br />CITY or SAINT VAUL <br />0IM1IF11131E 0r TO X 1:1'VY Ix/l I Yl:l1. <br />August 22, 1985 <br />Mayor Jerry Linke <br />Mounds View City Hall <br />2401 Highway 10 <br />'1' <br />Nvurdy View, Mirv,esote '»� <br />Dear Mayor Linke and Members of the City Council: <br />NARK VOCRDING <br />,..�u.. Aw. <br />As you are aware, Northern States Power Company has filed a request <br />for an electric rate increase of 13.44 per cent which will cost ele - <br />tric consumers an additional $129 million each year. My purr in <br />writing is to ask if you, as a public official, have considered the <br />impacts of this rate increase in your community, and secondly, to find <br />out if you are interested in joining a consortium with other munici- <br />palities to challenge this request. <br />We in St. Paul are very concerned about how the proposed increase <br />affects residential users, particularly since it follows on the heels <br />of a requested gas rate increase. These users will be especially hurt <br />because they will carry a greater portion of the rate increases <br />(15.o5f compared to 13.a4$ overall for electricity, 9.39% compared to <br />7.05% overall for gas). Because of our concern, we have already <br />intervened in the gas rate csse, and support for this action has been <br />ove-ninelming. <br />Byound this, the FroFosed elect.rlc rate increase w 1l have an adverse <br />impact on city budgets. We hava ^r)je_-ted, for example that it w'1. <br />cast St. Paul an additinal $400,00o per yea.- tr. operate -itreet <br />light9, traffic sig.lals, water pumps and other electric servic-3. Of <br />particular conceal is IaSP's proposal to ella.lra, a the p.sMP•ng <br />for large municip'ilities. <br />To assist you in evaluating the NSP rate increase on Mounds View, I <br />have cnclosed rates of comparison whinh applYtodmunicaipal servr� i�� <br />ces <br />aryl comparisons c. present and proposed residential, <br />coomercial rates. <br />Finally, I propose that, as concerned cities, we join together as a <br />consortium to intervene in this electric rate case. NSP's proposal <br />j <br />oin together; simands effanumberaof cities bec" involved,prthete to <br />cost <br />CIfY 11AlJ \I �I' I iII'�r <br />� .1'•1 %11' 101 %UTA 51102 c!' 'VNJ646 <br />