HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution 0445RESOLUTION NO. 445
VILLAGE OF MOUNDS VIEW
COUNTY OF RAMSEY
STATE OF MINNESOTA
At a regular meeting of the Village Council held at 8:00 P.M.
CDST on the 28th day of July, 1969, at thn Village Hall, 2401 Highway
10, St. Paul, Minnesota, 55112, with the following members present:
Rustad, Malvin, and Blanchard
and the following members absent: Johnson z& Hodges
Member Blanchard moved the following:
A RESOLUTION TO THE NORTH SUBURBAN SANITARY SEWER
DISTRICT RELATIVE TO CONNECTION CHARGE REIMBURSEMENTS
AND AMENDMENTS TO THE SEWER USE AGREEMENT
WHEREAS, the Village of Mounds View has been a member of
the North Suburban Sanitary Sewer District since its creation in
1961, and
WHEREAS, on the 9th day of March, 1964, the Village of Mounds
View entered into a Sewer Use Agreement with the North Suburban
Sanitary Sewer District which established a method of financing the
functions and obligations of the District, which include user and
connection charges, and
WHEREAS, the 1969 Minnesota Legislature adopted legislation
creating the Metropolitan Sewer Service Board (Laws 1969, Chapter
449), and
WHEREAS, the Village of Mounds View has paid to the North
Suburban Sanitary Sewer District for connection charges to date the
total amount of Two Hundred Seventy -four Thousand Nine Hundred
Twenty -five Dollars ($274,925.00), and user charges in excess of
Seventy -five thousand three hundred twenty nine Dollars and Fifty
Cents (75,329.50), and
WHEREAS, the connection charge method of financing was adopted
by the District to accommodate property owners within the District
who did not have an immediate need for sewage disposal facilities,
in effect eliminating the need for an ad valorem tax levy, and
WHEREAS, Laws 1969, Chapter 449 authorizes the levying of
ad valorem taxes by the Metropolitan Sewer Service Board, and it is
eminent that said tax levies will be made to finance the construction,
operation, maintenance and purchase of facilities within the seven
county Metropolitan Sewer District, and
WHEREAS, those property owners in the North Suburban Sanitary
Sewer District who have and will pay connection charges until the
corporate existence of the North Suburban Sanitary Sewer District is
terminated on January 1, 1971, will also be subject to an ad valorem
tax levy by the Metropolitan Sewer Service Board which the Village
Council of the Village of Mounds View finds would be inequitable, and
WHEREAS, it is the understanding of the Village of Mounds View
that the North Suburban Sanitary Sewer District is the only District
utilizing the connection charge method of financing construction of
its facilities, and
WHEREAS, a Mounds View resident pays Nine Dollars ($9.00) per
quarter per rec for sewer service, whereas the use charges for the
City of Minneapolis are Two Dollars and fifty cents ($2.50)per quarter
and for the City of St. Paul Three Dollars and sixty cents ($3.60)
per quarter, and
WHEREAS, continuation of the connection charge method of
financing of the present sewer use charges put the municipalities
in the North Suburban Sanitary Sewer District at an economic
disadvantage in relation to the rest of the Metropolitan area, and
WHEREAS, Laws 1969, Chapter 449 has created the seven county
Metropolitan Sewer Service Board and delegated to it the responsibilities
for the construction of the necessary facilities for sewage treatment,
and
WHEREAS, it is no longer necessary for the North Suburban Sanitary
Sewer District to expend sums of money for the construction of sewage
treatment plants in the North Suburban Area when this function has now
been acquired by the Metropolitan Sewer Service Board
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Village Council of the
Village of Mounds View as follows:
1. That the North Suburban Sanitary Sewer District immediately
cease and desist from authorizing the expenditure of any further sums
of money for the planning, acquiring or construction of a sewage
treatment plant in the North Suburban Sanitary Sewer District area
until said functions have been assumed by the Metropolitan Sewer Service
Board pursuant to Laws 1969, Chapter 449.
2. That the North Suburban Sanitary Sewer District take the
appropriate measures to request the Metropolitan Sewer Service Board
to proceed with the acquisition of a plant site and the construction
of a regional treatment plant according to its own plans and
specifications.
3. That this resolution constitutes notice pursuant to
paragraph 4.03 of the Sewer Use Agreement No. 5 executed by the
North Suburban Sanitary Sewer District and the Village of Mounds View
on the 9th day of March, 1964, whereby the Village of Mounds View
hereby requests that certain changes and /or modifications be made
in the Sewer Use Agreement to provide as follows:
a. In an effort to equalize the economic impact of a
Metropolitan tax levy for sanitary sewer facilities, an amendment to
the Sewer Use Agreement eliminating the connection charge method
of financing, reducing the user charge so that no user in the North
Suburban Sanitary Sewer pays more than the lowest charge currently
in force in the seven county Metropolitan area.
b. In an effort to equalize the economic impact of a tax levy
on those property owners and users in the North Suburban Sanitary Sewer
District who have paid connection charges, an amendment or modification
to the Sewer Use Agreement or some other action whereby connection
charges, and if possible, user charges to the extent that said user
charges exceed the lowest user charge in the seven county metropolitan
area in effect since 1964, shall be refunded to the municipality
within the North Suburban Sanitary Sewer District where the property
and /or user was located at the time the connection charge and excess
user charges were paid.
4. Be it further resolved that the North Suburban Sanitary
Sewer District, after modifying the Sewer Use Agreement, and refunding
the connection charges and excess user charges paid into said District,
notify the Metropolitan Sewer Service Board the budgetary requirements
necessary to properly administrate the North Suburban Sanitary Sewer
District which includes debt service.
The motion was seconded by Member Rustad
Those voting in favor: Rustad, Malvin, Blanchard
those voting against: None
whereupon the Mayor declared the resolution duly adopted this
28th day of July 1969.
VilT age Clerk
STATE OF MINNESOTA)
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COUNTY OF RAMSEY
(SEAL)
Mayor f,0-dâ– Di
I, the undersigned, being the duly qualified and acting Clerk
of the Village of Mounds View, Minnesota, do hereby certify that I
have carefully compared the attached and foregoing extract of minutes
of a meeting of the governing body of the above municipality held on
the date therein indicated, and that the same is a full, true and
correct copy of said minutes, insofar as the same relate to a resolution
to the North Suburban Sanitary Sewer District relative to connection
charge reimbursements and amendments to the sewer use agreement.
WITNESS My hand officially this 28th day of July 1969.
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Village Clerk