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AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION
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5561 Shoreline Blvd. Mound, Minnesota
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J. R. RITCHAY, being duly sworn, on oath says he is and during all times here stated has
been the vice president and printer of the newspaper known as The Mound Sun and
has full knowledge of the facts herein stated as follows: (1) Said newspaper is printed in the
English language in newspaper format and in column and sheet form equivalent in printed
space to at least 900 square inches. (2) Said newspaper is a weekly and is distributed at least
once each week. (3) Said newspaper has 50% of its news columns devoted to news of local
interest to the community which it purports to serve and does not wholly duplicate any other
publication and is not made up entirely of patents, plate matter and advertisements. (4) Said
newspaper is circulated in and near the municipality which it purports to serve, has at least
500 copies regularly delivered to paying subscribers, has an average of at least 75% of its total
circulation currently paid or no more than three months in arrears and has entry as second-
class matter in its local post -office. (5) Said newspaper purports to serve the Village
of Mound in the County of Hennepin and it has its known office of issue in the
Village of Mound in said County, established and open during its regular business hours for
the gathering of news, sale of advertisements and sale of subscription and maintained by the
managing officer or persons in its employ and subject to his direction and control during all
such regular business hours and devoted exclusively during such business hours to the
business of the newsppaer and business related thereto. (6) Said newspaper files a copy of
each issue immediately with the State Historial Society. (7) Said newspaper has complied
with all the foregoing conditions for at least two years preceding the day or dates of publication
mentioned below. (8) Said newspaper has filed with the Secretary of State of Minnesota prior
to January 1, 1966 and each January 1 thereafter an affidavit in the form prescribed by the
Secretary of State and signed by the publisher of said newspaper and sworn to before a notary
public stating that the newspaper is a legal newspaper.
He further states on oath that the printed Ordinance No. 149
hereto attached as a part hereof was cut from the columns of said newspaper, and was printed
and published therein in the English language, once each week, for One successive weeks;
that it was first so published ort hU rs the 2 Z s t day of March
, 19 74
and was thereafter printed and published on every to and including
the day of 19— and that the following is a printed copy
of the lower case alphabet from A to Z, both inclusive, and is hereby acknowledged as being
the size and kind of type used in the composition and publication of said notice, to -wit:
abcdefghijklmnopgrstuvwxyz
)Official Publication)
CITY OF MEDINA
ORDINANCE NO. 149
AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING A
SEWER SERVICE AVAILABILITY AND
CONNECTION CHARGE TO PAY RE-
SERVE CAPACITY COSTS OF THE
METROPOLITAN SEWER BOARD
WHEREAS, the Metropolitan Sewer
Board has determined to collect a sewer
service availability and connection
charge from the City of Medina on a basis
similar to that specified in this ordi-
nance:
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF MEDINA DOES ORDAIN AS
FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1:
1.01 Establishment of Charges. For the
purpose of paying costs of reserve capaci-
ty allocated to the City of Medina each
year by the Metropolitan Sewer Board,
there is hereby established a charge for:
tat the availability of treatment
works and interceptors comprising
the metropolitan disposal system:
and
lb) connections, direct and indirect,
to the metropolitan disposal sys-
tem.
The charge is imposed on each building
or structure in the City and each connec-
tion to the metropolitan disposal system
directly or through the City's system, in-
side any Sewer Service Area established
by the Metropolitan Sewer Board, con-
struction of which is commenced on or
after January 1, 1973. The charge shall be
payable upon the issuance of a building
permit or a connection permit, as the
case may be, but no charge shall be due
upon the issuance of a connection permit
if a charge was paid upon issuance of a
building permit.
The charge for each building or struc-
ture shall be equal to the number of units
of sewage volume which it will discharge,
multiplied by $275 for 1973, $300 for $974,
$325 for 1975, $350 for 1976 and $375 for
1977. A unit of sewage volume shall be
100,000 gallons per year and shall be as-
signed as follows:
a t Single family houses. townhouses
and duplex units shall each com-
prise one unit:
tbl Condominiums and apartments
shall each comprise 90c) of a unit:
tcl Mobile homes shall each com-
prise 80 , of a unit:
id) Other buildings and structures
shall be assigned one unit for each
100,000 gallons of flow or part
thereof which it is estimated they
will discharge:
let Public housing units and housing
units subsidized under any federal
program for low and moderate
income housing shall be counted as
75`) of the unit equivalent for that
type of housing:
f t Units existing or for which build-
ing permits were issued prior to
January 1, 1973, shall be counted
as one-half the unit equivalent
for that type of housing, if con-
nected to the Metropolitan Dis-
posal System prior to January 1,
1974, and shall be counted at the
full rate thereafter.
SECTION 2:
1.02 Administration. The City shall
collect the applicable charge before.issu-
ance of a building permit or sewer
connection permit and shall make appro-
priate information available to the Metro-
politan Sewer Board upon request. If upon
filing a report covering such permits with
the Metropolitan Sewer Board. the Board
determine that a greater number of units
is assignable to a building or structure,
any additional amount of cost allocated to
the City as a result shall be paid by the
person or company to whom the permit
was granted.
1.03 Fees. The City shall charge and
retain 1') of any charges collected as an
administration fee.
SECTION 3: THIS ORDINANCE SHALL
BE EFFECTIVE UPON ADOPTION
AND PUBLICATION.
Adopted this 5th day of March, 1974
s WAYNE NEDDERMEYER,
Mayor
ATTEST:
s PRISCILLA ARENS,
Clerk
1Mar.21, 1974)—WO-LAKE-P.