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1965-3377r~_`~~~ RESOLUTION NOa 3377 1 1 1 RESOLUTION AU~iORIZING FILING OF DEMAND WI~i CYTY OF MINNEAPOLIS FOR DBTERMINA TION OF NEW RATS AND CHARGES FOR SEWAGE DISPOSAL SERVICE iNHBRBAS, this municipalitq has a contract with the City of Minneapolis prom viding for sewage disposal service, and ~ifiBREAS, Minnesota Laws 1963, Chapter 874, Section 11, Subdivision 6 pro vides with reference to such contracts as follows': o°A11 rates and charges shall be reasonable and shall. be sufficient to compensate for ail costs of devoting the sewage disposal plant, equipment, its collector system, and personnel to the accomp~.ishment of the purpose of the service to be rendered but shalt not includes profit. When the sewer system of any municipality or any part thereof is deco voted to the use of another municipality, ail charges for such use shall be reasonable and shah. be sufficient to compensate for all costs of such use, but shall not include profit", and TNHBREAS, this municipaiitye in cooperation with other municipalities having sanitary sewers which directiy•or indirectly interconnect with the sewer system of the City of Minneapolis, has become a party to an intermunicipal joint and cooperative agreement under which the Suburban S~aitary Se~ve~ Commission has' been created to studq and otherwise deal with problems related to sanitary sewage disposal rates and charges, and t~RBAS, the Suburban Sanitary Sewer Commission engaged the engineering firm of Biacic and Veatch of Kansas City, Missouri, to investigate rates and charges made by the Citq of I+d~.nneapolis against this municipality for swage disposag service under its contract with Minneapolis, and WHEREP,S', Blaclc and Veatch have made such investigation and have reported that in their opinion the rates and charges beia~ made by the City of Minneapolis are 'esccess•ive in relation to the actual costs of service and have recommended that the members of the Suburban Sanitary Sewer Commission.seeF~ tc~ obtain re® vied-rates and charges from the Citq of Minneapolis, and WHEREAS', large-scale improvements to the Minneapoiis~Ste Paul Sanitary Disco tri~t works haws been undertal~en and are now in the process of being constructed9 and WHERF~;S9 such improvements would permit and oharges made by Minneapolis against this tract, and an increase in_sewage disposal rates municipality under the e~sisting conm ta1UBREAS~, the prospect of increased charges resulting from such sanity ~y diem tri~t improvements makes it even more important that the sewage disposal gates and charges be confined to the actual costs of rendering sewage disposal service to this municipalityg ~N~RiV THEREFORE, Be it Resolved by the City Council of the City of Richfieids as foliowso 1, The attorney for this municipality is hereby authorised and directed to file a demand with the City of Minneapolis in substantially the following forme Resolution Ido. 3377 -2- . In the Matter of the Determination of Proper Rates and Charges by the City of Minneapolis Against the City of Rich- f field for Sewage Dispasai Service. ZC}: CI1Y OF M3NN8AP(iLIS, MINNPSOTA, AND ~QNA1tD A. JOHIVSON, ITS -CITY CLBRK: N0~C8 is hereby given that the City of Richfield, acting pursuant to the provisions' of Minnesota Laws, 1963, Chapter 8'74, makes. demand that the City of Minneapolis fix.ntw:'rates and charges for serpices performed under the sewage disposal 'contract.;now.in effect.between the City. of Minneapolis and the City of Richfield. - . M3iinesota~ Laws' 1968, Chapter 8'74, Section. .11,, Subdivision 6, provides with reference tc>: such contracts as follows:.: "ail rates and charges shall. be reasonable and. s~a.l~' be sufficient to compeaga'te. fob all costs of .devoting the sewage. disposal pl~.nt, equipment, its coilecter system., and personnel to the accomplishment of the purpose of the service fiQ be rendered but shall not in- clude profit, then the sewer system of any municipality or anq'part thereof is devoted to the use of ..another municipality,-ail charges for such" use shall be r~asonabie and -shall be suff~.cient to compensate for al]! ca,~ts "flfsuch use, but shall. not include profit,'° Citq of Richfield therefore makes. further. ;demand -that the City of Minnea- polis,promptly call and hold a hearing fox. the detcrminatio~n of pxoper rates and charges .under .such .contract in accordance w#.tb, the requirements of said statute; and`'tha.t n©tice of such hearing be given .as required bq Minnesota Statutes, Section 15.0418. . I'ott are further notif led that the law firm of Howard ~ Peterson, LeFevere, Lefler and Ha~mltoin,_ X201 First National. Bank Bailding, Minneapolis, Minnesota, and the engineering firm of Black-and Veatch, 1500 'Meadow Lake Farkway, Kansas Citq, Missouri, are authorized by the-City of Richfield to participate in this proceeding as-its representatives. BY 0RD8R OF TH$ CITY. ESQL'tIL City Attorney . City of'~ich£ieid, ~Minnesot~ . 2201 First National-'Bank Bldg. Minneapolis, Min~es:otm 5540: es _ `2,, The.Suburbasr Sanitary Sewer Commission is hereby requested to make ava3.lable~to this m~nicipal:ity its legal and engineering personne3. in the pro- secu tion of the proceeding to secure revised rates and charges by the City of Minneapolis for sewage disposal service.; i,e,:tb~e law firm of Howard, Peterson, LeFevere, Lefler and:Hamiiton and the: engineering .farm of Black and Veatch; and the-Suburban Sar~itar-y Sewer Eommission` and its-.said personnel. .are hereby desig- naiad as representatives o!' this municipal,ity.in the prosecution of such proceeding. Passed by the citq council of -the City of Richfield, this 23rd day of Feb. 1965 ATTBSTs t~.~. ~~~~.~-t Mayor '_~, a C1erk..Treas,