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Franchise Fee Adoption Process <br />If Council wishes to adopt franchise fees, staff would meet with utility <br />company representatives from Anoka Electric, CenterPoint Energy, <br />and Connexus Energy while drafting franchise fee ordinances for each <br />utility. Once draft ordinances are complete, Council must then hold a <br />Public Hearing prior to adopting the ordinances, after which a waiting <br />period of at least 90 days is required per PUC rules. Assuming a Public <br />Hearing could be held in late September, the soonest invoicing and <br />the collection of revenues could begin would be January of 2014. <br />LT SMP Costs & Funding Options) <br />Staff also recommends communicating with the public early and often <br />to ensure that the implementation process is successful. This would <br />include communicating to our residents what the franchise fee is and <br />why it is being imposed on the utility companies. This message could <br />then be mailed with our utility billings and posted on our web site. <br />City of I,. <br />RAMSEY <br />August 27, 2013 CC Workshop <br />