HomeMy WebLinkAbout1973 04-03 Maplewood Adopts Water Hookup Fee DISPATCH Maplewood Adopts
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Maplewood's Vil1 ag Cou n c ] m�n .John
Greavu and Harald Hau-
.has
C o
un c i i, as expected, an dissented.
.adopted a $150 water g n isleacu ted he prefers
hookup charge by a 3-2
financing water system
�rot�e• improvements with gen-
the council was dlines P eral obligation tax mon
.ed�aloug the. same lines 9Ps
earlier discussion of
the issue.
= +favor Les Ax d a h 1,
who -sided with the ma-
jority, called the new
method of raising, water
system revenue "a com-
pi•oinise."
'IA'here probably is no
pigely equitable way of
approaching this thing,
he explained. "We really
need some kind of com-
promise. I don't know of
abetter one than this."
T'1he new hookup fee
takes effect Jan. 1, 1974,
and applies to homes
connected to municipal
water for the first time.
`or the rest of this
r, the hookups cost
;aper unit.
gaplewood previously
bad operated without a
* okup charge.
?Varying fees also were
•,etablished for industri-
al and commercial hook-
ups. based largely .on
flow.
Village Manager
'chid Miller said the
net fees will account for
about $125,000 in reve-
nue, annually over the
text 20 years.
=t',7-Councilmen Don Wie-.
;ett and Don Olmstead
joined Mayor Axdahl in
-backing the hookup
merge.