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 .
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John,; . F ane, City Clerk
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