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I I I I than to increase City taxes. He explained that he already drains a' lot of Green Valley rd his property and has spent a lot of money to route that water back to the wetlands on because the County did not want to do the work. City Engineer Olson explained that if Mr. Davis were to petition the City to where the storm drainage utility funds would go. is Mr. Davis stated that he wants to pay his taxes, but believes people, that the additional cost should be included on their City a lot of Mayor Gamec noted that if the additional cost was added not mean that the taxes would only go up three percent. to property taxes would Councilmember Zimmerman inquired if taxes drainage maintenance would the funds in the TIF districts to costs for storm City Administrator Norman repiied no, explaining that those He also noted that tax exempt properties do not pay property taxes, utility fee. go into the TIF fund. drainage Mr. Davis replied that tax for a reason. e they are tax exempt Jeff Uecker, 17121 Veriolite Street undeveloped areas .~o de~eloped areas. the rural areas b~ffu~e'' t0. him ~t seemed as the City. Ia,~Sence it appears that the C~ recychng fee .has continued ~i~6{Tbe increased fee an&qu%tions what will~h~i~pen with the Mayor G City is si'rifting costs from as to how~ much money will be spent out in rural residents will be subsidizing for the rest of taxes. Over the past five years the concerned that there is no control over the utility fee over the next few years. probl'ems for the City is ditches and if the City ~nts to....... septic systems then the ditches have to be cleaned because there are ~vet?;i,.%i:h~tions where &t~h~are backing up into fields and have had close calls w~th septic systems. Mr. Ueckersuggested thaCffie:.~ m ~e ~mre h~dle ~e situation m a be~ m~er: He felt that if the 'Ci~ would ,h~?>~een expiated the utiliW before it w~ adopted a lot of ~e difficulties and[:~ger could have been dealt w~th. ~en he hstened to ~e cable pro~ discussing the ~fi:~i~ there seemed to be a lot of con,ion mongst the Councilmembers ~d for as much time ,~?i w~ supposedly spem on ~e issue he felt ~e COuncil should have a be~er "~: :?5~:understanding~ the impact the fee would have on ~e residems ~d bus~esses. . '~or Gam~c apologized for the way that ~e public w~ made aw~e of the utili~. U~own resident questioned the overall operation budget for 2000. City Council/September 26, 2000 Page 25 of 36 -81-