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HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution - 88-266 - Staring Opposition of City to Forgiveness of Loan by State of Minnesota to Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul for Their Combined Sewer Separation Projects - CITY OF EDEN PRAIRIE HENNEPIN COUNTY, MINNESOTA RESOLUTION NO. 88- 266 A RESOLUTION STATING THE OPPOSITION OF THE CITY OF EDEN PRAIRIE TO FORGIVENESS OF THE LOAN BY THE STATE OF MINNESOTA 1*0 THE CITIES OF MINNEAPOLIS AND SAINT PAUL FOR THEIR COMBINED SEWER SEPARATION PROJECTS WHEREAS, the City of Eden Prairie is a member of the Suburban Rate Authority, an organization it supports for its efforts to make equitable rates For public utilities; and WHEREAS, the Suburban Rate Authority has assisted the Metropolitan Council , the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency and the Minnesota Legislature in formulating a program for funding combined sewer separation in the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul ; and WHEREAS, such sewer separation is required by law and by contract, and is otherwise desirable; and WHEREAS, expected federal funding for the program has been cancelled and replacement Funding must be identified; and WHEREAS, most cities in the seven-county metropolitan area have built separate sanitary and storm sewer systems, principally through local funding; and WHEREAS, the cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis have obtained legislation forgiving approximately $32 million in separation loans from the state; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the City of Eden Prairie that it states its opposition to the spreading of the replacement funding upon the State Treasury, and that it believes the most equitable resolution is for the affected cities themselves to provide that funding. ADOPTED by the Council of the City of Eden Prairie December 13, 1988 . Y arry eter an, ATTEST: i 7--) John,; . F ane, City Clerk .�. ..rY7