77-429 CITY OF HOPKINS
Hennepin County, Minnesota
ORDINANCE NO. 77-429
ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING AN INDUSTRIAL USER STRENGTH
CHARGE IN ADDITION TO THE CHARGE BASED UPON THE VOLUME
OF DISCHARGE BY AN INDUSTRIAL USER AND ESTABLISHING AN
INDUSTRIAL USER STRENGTH CHARGE FORMULA FOR THE COMPUTA-
TION THEREOF TO RECOVER OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE COSTS OF
TREATMENT SERVICES ATTRIBUTABLE TO THE STRENGTH OF THE
DISCHARGE OF INDUSTRIAL WASTE INTO THE SEWER SYSTEM AND
ESTABLISHING TAX LIEN AGAINST PROPERTY SERVED IN CONNECTION
WITH SUCH STRENGTH CHARGE.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL, of the City of Hopkins, County of
Hennepin, Minnesota, as follows:
Section 1. Recitals. The Metropolitan Waste Control Commission, a metropolitan
commission organized and existing under the laws of the State of Minnesota, in
• order to receive and retain grants in compliance with the Federal Water Pollution
Control Act Amendments of 1972, and regulations thereunder, has determined to im-
pose an industrial user sewer strength charge upon users of the Metropolitan Disposal
System (as defined in Minnesota Statutes, Section 473.121, subdivision 24) to re-
cover operation and maintenance costs of treatment works attributable to the strength
of the discharge of industrial waste, such sewer strength charge being in addition
to the charge based upon the volume of discharge. In order for the City to pay such
costs based upon strength of industrial discharge and allocated to it each year by
the Commission, it is hereby found, determined and declared to be necessary to estab-
lish sewer strength charges and a formula for the computation thereof for all
industrial users receiving waste treatment services within or served by the City.
Furthermore, Minnesota Statutes, Section 444.075, Subdivision 3, empowers the City to
make such sewer charge or charge against the owner, lessee, occupant or all of them
and certify unpaid charges to the county auditor as a tax lien against the property
served.
Section 2. Establishment of Strength Charges. For the purpose of paying the costs
allocated to the City each year by the Commission that are based upon the strength
of discharge of all industrial users receiving waste treatment services within or
served by the City, there is hereby approved, adopted and established, in addition
to the sewer charge based upon the volume of discharge, a sewer charge upon each
company or corporation receiving waste treatment services within or served by the City,
• based upon strength of industrial waste discharged into the sewer system of the City.
Section 3. Establishment of Strength Charge Formula. For the purpose of computa-
tion of the Strength Charge established by Section 2 hereof, there is hereby established,
110 approved and adopted in compliance with the Act the same strength charge formula de-
signated in Resolution No. 76-172 adopted by the governing body of the Commission on
June 15, 1976, such formula being based upon pollution qualities and difficulty of
disposal of the sewage produced through an elevation of pollution qualities and
quantities in excess of an annual average base and the proportionate costs of operation
and maintenance of waste treatment services provided by the Commission.
Section 4. Strength Charge Payment. It is hereby approved, adopted and established
that the Strength Charge established by Section 2 hereof shall be paid by each indus-
trial user receiving waste treatment services and subject thereto before the twentieth
(20th) day next succeeding the date of billing thereof to such user by or on behalf
• of the City, and such payment thereof shall be deemed to be delinquent if not paid
to the billing entity before such date. Furthermore, it is hereby established, approved
and adopted that if such payment is not paid before such date an industrial user shall
pay interest compounded monthly at the rate of two-thirds of one percent (2/3%) per
month on the unpaid balance due.
Section 5. Establishment of Tax Lien. As provided by Minnesota Statutes, Section
444.075, Subdivision 3, it is hereby approved, adopted and established that if payment
of the Strength Charge established by Section 2 hereof is not paid before the sixtieth
(60th) day next succeeding the date of billing thereof to the industrial user or by
or on behalf of the City, said delinquent sewer strength charge, plus accrued interest
established pursuant to Section 4 hereof, shall be deemed to be an charge against the
• owner, lessee and occupant of the property served, and the City or its agent shall
certify such unpaid delinquent balance to the county auditor with taxes against the
property served for collection as other taxes are collected; provided, however, that
such certification shall not preclude the City or its agent from recovery of such de-
linquent sewer strength charge and interest thereon under any other available remedy.
Section 6. Severability. In the event any provision of this ordinance shall be
held invalid or unenforceable by any court of competent jurisdiction, such holding
shall not invalidate or render unenforceable any other provision hereof.
Section 7. Effectiveness. This ordinance shall take effect immediately.
Passed and adopted by the Council of the City of Hopkins, Minnesota, for a first
• reading at a regular meeting held the 5th day of April 1977, and passed and adopted
and ordered published at the second reading held at a regular meeting of the Council
on the 19th day of April 1977.
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• H. E. RICHARDSON,
"ERRE A. MILLER,
City Clerk Mayor
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JOSEPH C. VESELY,
City Attorney
• To be published in the HOPKINS SUN, April 27, 1977.
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' U.S. DEPARTMeNT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT •
HOUSING ASSISTANCE PLAN
• . TABLE III. GOALS FOR LOWER INCOME HOUSING ASSISTANCE
THREE YEAR GOAL
1. NAME OF APPLICANT 3. ® ORIGINAL
•
City of Hopkins Q AMENDMENT. DATE: -
2. APPLICATION/GRANT NUMBER 4. PROGRAM YEAR •
l +
B _ 7: 7 – H S – 2 7 – 0 01 0 3 ,
FROM: 6-12–77 TO: 6-12-78
NUMBER OF HOUSEHOLDS TO BE ASSISTED
•
ELDERLY ORFAMILY LARGE
TYPES AND SOURCES OF ASSISTANCE • ALL HANDICAPPEDFAMILY
(4 or less
HOUSEHOL DS •(1-2 persons) persons) (5 or more
persons)
(a) (b) (e) (d) (e)
A. NEW RENTAL UNITS
I 1. Section 8—HUD 220 90 90 _4D
2 State Agency–Total (Sum of lines a and b)
3 a. Section 8
_ ,
4 b. Other
s 3. Other Assisted New Rental Housing
(Identify) - Total • —
L0.
b. '
8 4. Total (Sum of lines 1,2,and 3)
B. REHABILITATION OF RENTAL UNITS -
9 1. Section 8-HUD -
to 2. State Agency–Total (Sum of lines a and b)
1.1 a. Section 8 -
12 • b. Other .
3. Other Assisted Rehabilitation of Rental Housing
13
(Identify) – Total
la a.
•
15 b. _
16 4. Total (Sum of lines 1,2, and 3)
C. EXISTING RENTAL UNITS:
17 Section 8–HUDr_ill
40 16 2Q 4
18 • L. State Agency—Total (Sum of lines a and b)
19 a. Section 8 —
20 b. Other
21 3. Other Assisted Existing Rental Housing
�– (Identify). Total
2 z 1 a.S.23 ' b.
24 4. Total (Sum of lines 1,2, and 3)
D. REHABILITATION ASSISTANCE TO HOMEOWNERS OR '
PRO:iuECTIVE HOMEOWNERS
25 L CD Block Grants 30 32 14 4
26 2. Section 235
27' 3. Other Rehabilitation Assistance to Homeowners or
Prospective Homeowners(Identify) - Total
-e a.Minn. Housing Finance Agency-i Grant Progr1m 10 5 2 3
L,29 b.
So 4. Total (Sum of lines 1,2, and 3)
E. NEW CONSTRUCTION ASSISTANCE TO HOMEOWNERS OR
PROSPECTIVE HOMEOWNERS I.
31 . Section 235
3 Other(Identify)- Total
X33 a
bt b. •
35 3. Total (Sum of lines I and 2) .
36 F. ALL HOUSING ASSISTANCE GOALS
(Sum o f lines A4,114,C4,D4, and E3' Inn 721 ]_2F, 57
37 PERCENT OF ALL HOUSEHOLDS 100% 41 % 42 % 17 %
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