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· COLUMBIA HEIGHTS, MINNESOTA 55421
RESOLUTI0N No. 72-8~
RESOLUTION ESTABLISHING ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES
FOR COLLECTING SERVICE AVAILABILITY CHARGES
WHEREAS, thee Metropolitan Sewer Board and the Metropolitan
Council did on October 12, 1972, despite the objections of the
City of Columbia Heights and representatives of over 70% of the
population in the Metropolitan Sewer District, adopt a new cost
allocation system whereby a Service Availability Charge will
replace the previously billed reserve capacity and deferment
charges; and
WHEREAS, the City of Columbia Heights along with 15 other
municipalities have filed a complaint in the 4th Judicial Court in
Hennepin County to test the legality of the said action by the
said Metropolitan Sewer Board and Metropolitan Council; and
AND, WHEREAS, There has been an establishment of charges
for the purpose of payi.ng costs of reserve capacity allocated to
the City each year by the Metropolitan Sewer
Board, there is hereby established a charge for:
(a) The availability of treatment works and interceptors
comprisi.ng the metropolitan disposal system; and
(b) Connections, direct and indirect, to the metropolitan
disposal system.
The charge is imposed on each building or structure in the
City and each connection to the metropolitan disposal system
directly or through the City's system, inside any Sewer Service
Area established by the Metropolitan Sewer Board, construction of
which is commenced on or after January 1, 1973. The charge
shall be payable upon the issuance of a building permit or a
connection permit, as the case may be, but no charge shall be
due upon the issuance of a connection permit if a charge was
paid upon issuance of a building permit.
The charge for each building or structure shall be equal to
the number of units of sewage Volume which it will discharge,
multiplied by $275 for 1973, $300 for 1974, $325 for 1975', $350
for 1976, and $375 for 1977. A unit of sewage volume shall be
100,000 gallons per year and shall be assigned as follows:
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(a) Single family houses, townhouses, and
duplex units shall each comprise one unit;
(b) Condominiums and apartments shall each comprise
80% of a unit;
(c) Mobile homes shall each comprise 80% of a unit;
(d)
Other buildings and structures shall be assigned
one unit for each 100,O00. gallons of flow or part
thereof which it is estimated they will discharge;
(e)
Public housing units and housing units subsidized under
any federal program for low and moderate income
housing shall be counted as 75% of the unit equivalent
for that type of housing;
(f)
Units existing or for which building permits were issued
prior to January 1, 1973, shall be counted as one-half
the unit equivalent for that type of housing, if connected
to the Metropolitan Disposal System prior to January l, 1974,
and shall be counted at the full rate thereafter.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the
City of Columbia Heights, Minnesota, that the City Manager establish
a special fund to be kept by the City Treasurer into which all
maneys collected as a "sewer availability charge" shall be
deposited and held until such time as a district court determination
is made in respect to the legality of such a charge by the Metropolitan
Sewer Board.
Passed this 21st day of December , 1972.
Offered by: Land
Seconded by: Hetntz
Roll Call: A11 Ayes
s~e~y' to t "["
Bruce G. Nawrocki, Mayor