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ORDINANCE #00-01 <br /> <br />CITY OF RAMSEY <br />ANOKA COUNTY <br />STATE OF MINNESOTA <br /> <br />AN AMENDMENT TO CHAPTER 4 OF THE CITY CODE WHICH CHAPTER IS <br />KNOWN AS THE PUBLIC FACILITIES AND IMPROVEMENTS CHAPTER OF THE <br />CITY CODE OF RAMSEY, MINNESOTA. <br /> <br />AN ORDINANCE ADDING SECTION 4.80 TO THE CITY CODE, WHICH SECTION <br />4.80 IS ENTITLED "STORM DRAINAGE UTILITY." <br /> <br />The City of Ramsey ordains: <br /> <br />SECTION 1. AMENDMENT <br /> <br />4.80.01 Storm Sewer System; Statutory Authority. Minnesota Statutes, Section <br />444.075, authorizes cities to impose just and reasonable charges for the use and availability of <br />storm sewer facilities ("charges"). By this Section, the City elects to exercise such authority. <br /> <br />4.80.02 Findings and Determinations. In providing for such charges, the findings and <br />determination set out in this Subsection are made. <br /> <br /> Subdivision 1. In the exercise of its governmental authority and in order to <br />promote the public health, safety, convenience and general welfare, the City has constructed, <br />operated and maintained a storm sewer system ("the system"). This Section is adopted in the <br />further exercise of such authority and for the same purposes. <br /> <br /> Subd. 2. The system, as constructed, heretofore has been financed and paid for <br />through the imposition of special assessments and ad valorem taxes. Such financing methods <br />were appropriate to the circumstances at the time they were used. It is now necessary and <br />desirable to provide an alternative method of recovering some or all of the further costs of <br />improving, maintaining and operating the system through the imposition of charges as provided <br />in this Section. <br /> <br /> Subd. 3. In imposing charges, it is necessary to establish a methodology that <br />undertakes to make them just and equitable. Taking into account the status of completion of the <br />system, past methods of recovering system costs, the topography of the city and other relevant <br />factors, it is determined that it would just and equitable to assign responsibility for some or all of <br />the future costs of operating, maintaining and improving the system on the basis of the expected <br />storm water runoff from the various parcels of land within the City during a standard one-year <br />rainfall event. <br /> <br /> Snbd. 4. Assigning costs and making charges based upon expected typical storm <br />water runoff cannot be done with mathematical precision but can only be accomplished within <br /> <br /> <br />