04-25 Resolution No. 11357 RESOLUTION NO. 11357
RESOLUTION DIRECTING XCEL ENERGY TO UNDERGROUND OVERHEAD
UTILITIES ALONG 66TH STREET BETWEEN XERXES AVENUE TO 16th AVENUE
WHEREAS, the portion of the 2017-2019 roadway and boulevard improvements
will be completed on 66th Street between Xerxes Avenue to 16th Avenue to provide for
improved traffic safety; and
WHEREAS, the City seeks to improve safety along 66th Street by directing Xcel
Energy to underground its electric utility facilities along the roadway; and
WHEREAS, Xcel Energy is expecting to recover the additional costs it will incur
because of the undergrounding of facilities by implementing a surcharge on customers
within the City; and
WHEREAS, the City is in receipt of an estimate for the requested
undergrounding; and
WHEREAS, on January 14, 2015, Xcel Energy was notified at the 66th Street
Project Coordination Meeting their facilities must be relocated underground. The
relocation is anticipated to be completed no later than March 1, 2018, from Xerxes
Avenue to I35W and Portland Avenue to 16th Avenue, and no later than March 1, 2019,
from 135W to Portland Avenue.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council that:
1. Xcel Energy is hereby requested and directed to relocate its overhead
facilities underground along 66th Street between Xerxes Avenue to 16th
Avenue;
2. The City agrees that it will not oppose a surcharge on customers of Xcel
located within the City. The amount shall be Xcel's necessary, actual, and
reasonably incurred costs of undergrounding less the costs Xcel would have
incurred through relocation of its overhead lines along the project site
because of the 66th Street Reconstruction Project; and
3. The City does not waive its right to verify, by legal means available, that the
amount of the surcharge is necessary, actual, and a reasonable cost
incurred.
Adopted by the City Council of the City of Richfield, Minnesota this 25th day of
April, 2017.
Pat Elliott, Mayor
ATTEST: ,
Cit.)(111/64,
Elizabeth VanHoose, City Clerk