HomeMy WebLinkAboutCity Council Resolution 1965-018EXTRACT OF MINUTES 'OF
REGULAR MEETING OF VILLAGE COUNCIL
` OF THE VILLAGE OF PLYMOUTH
March 1, 1965
Mayor Staples introduced the following resolution and moved its
adoption • RESOLUTION NO, 65-18
RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING
INTERVENTION IN FILING OF DEMAND BY THE
VILLAGE _CF GOLDEN VALLEY
KITH CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS FOR DETERMINATION
OF NEW RATES AND CHARGES FOR SEWAGE DIS-
POSAL SERVICE,
WHEREAS, the Village of Gclden Valley has a
contract with the City of Minneapolis providing for sewage dispos•1
service, and the Village of
contract with the Village of
service, and
Plymouth
has a
Golden Valley for such
AREAS, Minnesota Laws 1963, Chapter 974, Section 11,
Subdivision 6 provides with reference to such contracts as follows:
"All rates and charges shall be reasonable and shall be sufficient
to compensate for all costs of devoting the sewage disposal plant,
equipment, its collector system, and personnel to the accomplish-
ment of the purpose of the service to be rendered but shall not
Include profit. When the sewer system of any municipality or any
part thereof is devoted to the use of another municipality, all
charges for such use ■hall be reasonable and shall be sufficient
to corpensate for all costs of such use, but shall not include
profit", and
WHEREAS, this municipality, in cooperation with other
municipalities having sanitary sewers which directly or indirectly
interconnect with the sewer system of the City of Minneapolis, has
become a party to an intermunicipal joint and cooperative agree-
ment under which the Suburban Sanitary Sewer Commission has been
created to study and otherwise deal with problems related to sani-
targ sewage eisposal rates and charges, and
WHEREAS, the Ouburban Sanitary Sewer Commission engaged
the engineering firm of Black and Veatch of Kansas City, Missouri,
to investigate rates and charges made by the City of Minneapolis
against this municipality for sewage disposal service under its
contract with Mianeapolie, and
WHEREAS, Black and Veatcii hnve mnde such investigation
and have reported the[ in their o,)inion the rates and charges being
made by the City of Miuneapolie are exec-ssive in relation to the
actual costs of service and have recommended that the members of
the Suburban Sanitary Sewer Commission seek to o';tain revised rates
and charges from the City of Minneapolis, and
WHEREAS, large-scale improvements to the Minneapolis -
St. Paul Sanitarl District works have been undertaken and are now
in the process of being constructed, and
WHEREAS, such improvements would permit an increase in
sewage disposal rates and charges made by Minneapolis against this
municipality under the existing contract, and
WHEREAS, the prospect of increased charges resulting
from such sanitary district improvements makes it even more im-
portant that the sewage disposal rates and charges be confined to
the actual costs of rendering sewage disposal service to this
municipality;
NOW THEREFORE, Be it Resolved by the Village Council
of the Village of Plymouth , as follows:
1. The attorney for this municipality is hereby author -
iced and directed to intervene in any proceeding wherein the Village
Golden
of Valley makes demand for the City of Minneapolis to fix new
sewage disposal rates and charges, by filing with the City of
Minneapolis a notice of intervention in substantially the following
form:
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In the Matter of the Determinatinn of
Proper Raton and Cherg-s by the City of
Minneapolis Against th-Village _
of Golden Valley _PG_ SrwEge
Disposal Service.
TO: CITY OF MINA*EAPUL S, MINR'iSOTA, AND LEONARD A. JOEN30N, ITS
CITY CLERIC:
NOTICE 1s hereby given that the Village of Plymouth ,
acting pursuant to the provisions of Minnesota Laws 1963, Chapter
874, herewith intervenes in the proceeding in which the Village
of Golden Valley makes demand that the City of Minneapolis fix
new rates and charges for services performed under the sewage dis-
posal contract now in effect between the City of Minneapolis and
the Village of Golden Valley
Minnesota Laws 1933, Chanter 874, Section 11, Subdivision
6 provides with reference to such contracts as follows: "All rates
and charges shall be reasonable and shall be sufficient to compen-
sate for all costs of devoting the sewage dispostl plant, equip-
ment, its collector system, and personnel to the accomplishment
of the purpose of the service to be rendered but shall not include
profit. When the sewer system of any municipality or any part
thereof is devoted to the use of another municipality, all charges
for such use shall be reasonable and shall be sufficient to com-
pensate for all costs of such use, but shall not include profit."
Village of Plymouth therefore makes further
demand that the City of Minneapolis promptly call and hold a hearing
for the determination of proper rates and charges under such contract
In accordance with the requirements of said statute; and that notice
of such hearing be given as required by Minnesota Statutes, Section
15.0418.
You are further notified that the law firm of Howard,
Peterson, LeFevere, Lefler and Hamilton, 2201 First National Bank
Building, Minneapolis, Minnesota, and the englneering firm of Black
and Veatch, 1500 Meadow Lake parkway, Kansas City, Missouri, are
authorized by the Village of Plymouth to participate in this
proceeding as its representatives.
BY ORDER OF THE VILLAGE COUNCIL
Herbert P. Lefler
Attorney
Village of Plymouth Minnesota
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2. The %UbLr .:, 3sai.:ary joiner Commission is hereby
requested to make available to this municipality its legal and
engineering personnel in the proseeutiot. of the proceeding to secure
revised rates and charges by the City of Minneapolis for sewage
disposal service; i.e. the law firm of Howard, Peterson, LeFevere,
Lefler and Hamilton and the engineering firm of Black and Veatch;
and the Suburban Sanitary Sewer Commission and its said personnel
are hereby designated as representatives of this municipality in
the prosecution of such proceeding.
The above motion was seconded by Trustee O'Fallon and
upon vote being taken thereon, the followinE voted in favor thereof:
Mayor Staples, Trustees #s, O'Fallon, #=R.*My and Seviour;
Absent: Tru. -tees Curti= & H. zphrey.
the following voted against: None; whereupon said resolution was
declared duly passed and adopted. Dated March 1., 196 ;.
Attest:
V age Clerk
STA72 OF MINNESOTA )
COUNTY OF HENNEPIN ) as.
VILLAGE OF PLYMOUTH)
Mayor
I, the undersigned, being the duly qualified and acting clerk
of the Village of Plymouth, Minnesota, hereby certify that I have
carefully compared the attached and foregoing extract of minutes
of a regular meeting of the Village Council of said village held
March 1, 1965, with the original thereof on file in my office and
the sane is a full, true and complete transcript therefrom insofar
as the same relates to the intervention by Village of Plymouth in
filing of demand by Village of Golden Valley with City of Minneapolis
for determination of new sewage disposal rates and charges.
WITNESS, My hand officially as such clerk and the corporate
seal of the village this lst day of March , 1965.
96-1 'village clerk`�i�•
(Mal) Village of Plymouth, Minnesota
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