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City Council Regular Meeting Minutes August 22, 2023 Page 3 1 2 Personnel Costs: 70.0% of expenditures, overall costs up $353,945 or 5.71%. 3 Contracted Services: 10.4% of expenditures, overall costs up $66,615. 4 Other Insurance Costs – 5.3% of expenditures, overall costs up by $114,862. 5 6 PowerPoint slides showing 2024 Proposed Levies, Impact of Debt Levy Relief, and Summary of 7 2024 Budget were reviewed. The General Fund Levy supports the following city services: 8 Administration, Police, Fire, Public Works, Finance, and Parks. 9 10 In 2023, the average homeowner paid $1,571 for City Services on a home valued at $396,000 or 11 $131/month. Tonight’s presentation is just for the Proposed 2024 Budget & Property Tax Levy. 12 13 Mayor Stille asked the Council if they had any questions or comments as there is no action to be 14 taken. 15 16 Councilmember Jenson thanked Finance Director Rueckert for the level of detail on this 17 presentation. 18 19 Mayor Stille stated he has heard that police officers need to be paid well and training provided. 20 St. Anthony is doing this. The cadet program will make the department fully staffed. $600,000 is 21 going to the Police Department Budget. 22 B.23 Ordinance 2023-04 – Granting CenterPoint Energy Resources Corp. D/B/A CenterPoint 24 Energy Minnesota Gas (“CenterPoint Energy”), Its Successors and Assigns, A 25 Nonexclusive Franchise (“Franchise”) to Construct, Operate, Repair and Maintain 26 Facilities and Equipment for the Transportation, Distribution, Manufacture and Sale of 27 Gas Energy for the Public and Private Use and to use the Public Ways and Grounds of 28 the City of St. Anthony, Minnesota, for Such Purpose: And, Prescribing Certain Terms 29 and Conditions Thereof. 30 31 City Manager Yunker reviewed a memorandum received from City Attorney Jay Lindgren 32 stating the City currently has a franchise ordinance allowing CenterPoint Energy a nonexclusive 33 right to use public grounds and rights of way to distribute natural gas to customers within the 34 City. The current ordinance expires soon and requires consideration of a new ordinance for a 20 35 year period. 36 37 The proposed franchise ordinance is similar to the current ordinance in that it requires (1) 38 agreement with the City about location of gas utilities, (2) allows the City to charge a franchise 39 fee to be established as part of your annual fee schedule (as long as consistent with Minnesota 40 Public Utilities Commission), (3) allows the City to charge permit fees consistent with an annual 41 schedule, and (4) allows the City to require escrow deposits, prior to disturbing any public 42 ground. 43 44 Based on this, there should be no substantial changes to the way the franchise operates over the 45 next 20 years. 46 7