10.01 - Request to Forgive Sewer Charges

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City Council Minutes February 1, 2010 Page 6 of 8 -------------------------------- 9.1 Transfer of Wages/Benefits to Water /Sewer Funds: COUNCIL MEMBER RYAN MOVED TO APPROVE THE TRANSFER TO THE GENERAL FUND OF $45,390.14, WITH $22,176.65 FROM THE WATER FUND AND $23,213.49 FROM THE SEWER FUND, FOR 2009 WAGES AND BENEFITS FOR THE PUBLIC WORKS SUPERVISOR AND MAINTENANCE WORKERS. COUNCIL MEMBER NAGEL SECONDED THE MOTION. Public Works Supervisor Loven explained they had kept a record of their time for the year. He questioned if the Council would like the employees to continue to keep records of their time in the water /sewer departments for 2010. The Council suggested that the same percentages be used in 2010. Mike Loven stated that he would he will bring it back to the Council if he notices a large deviation fro 2009. MOTION CARRIED 5 -0. 9.2 Request to Forgive Sewer Charges: Public Works Supervisor Loven presented Earl Hemmerich's request for a refund of sewer charges. This is the second one in 2010. COUNCIL MEMBER SJOBLAD MOVED TO FORGIVE SEWER CHARGES IN THE AMOUNT OF $138.75. COUNCIL MEMBER NAGEL SECONDED THE MOTION. MOTION CARRIED 5 -0. Staff was directed to notify Mr. Hemmerich that it is his responsibility to monitor his meters and he should be doing daily meter reading. The City will not continue to forgive sewer charges. 10. City Engineer's Report: 10.1 Report on West Lake Street: City Engineer Houle stated the surveyors are looking into property ownership along West Lake Street, as well as storm drainage. MN/DOT is open to working with the City on storm drainage. These items need to get straightened out before the design phase. Options for storm drainaize: • Go underneath the highway into east highway ditch and make it an infiltration basin. MN/DOT doesn't want standing water creating a pond. That is not where the water goes now. We need to maintain existing drainage patterns.