Thanks for the clarification, David, but that's not how my bill reads. It
said 2.38 ESUs @ $8.72 = $20.75 and added $20.75 to my water bill on this
line.
Dorothy ("Dottie") Titus, Executive Director
Jordan Area Community Council
2507 Fremont Avenue North
Minneapolis, MN 55411
612-529-9267
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Of David Brauer
Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 3:21 PM
To: mpls@mnforum.org
Subject: Re: [Mpls] A little media disagreement
On Apr 15, 2005, at 3:01 PM, Dorothy Titus wrote:
> The stormwater rate is multipled by the number of ESUs (estimated
> stormwater
> units) that the property has been assigned. So it most definitely IS
> possible to have a $37 bump up in fees.
Dorothy's woes are a screw-up in administering the policy, not the
policy itself. See:
http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/stormwater/what-we-do/
SewerStormwaterRateResolution.pdf
The city bases its stormwater rate on an $8.72 ESU (it stands for
Equivalent Stormwater Unit, by the way).
The city gets its three new rates by multiplying the ESU.
The low rate is three-quarters of an ESU: 8.72 x . 75 = $6.54 a month
The basic rate is one ESU = $8.72 a month
The high rate is 1.25 ESUs: 8.72 x 1.25 = $10.90 a month
That's as high as the law says it can go for single-family homes.
I should also mention that the thrust of my editorial (which won't be
online until Monday) is the same as Nick's - the fee is too regressive.
My suggestion is to create a higher rate - it's abysmal that the
biggest single-family home with the most hard surface in the city would
pay only 60 percent more than the smallest home with the least hard
surface.
I don't have a problem, though, with charging properties with lots of
hard surface more for the stormwater sewer upkeep than they've
previously paid.
Minneapolis is supposedly a progressive city and needs to make this fee
more progressive.
I'm at the top rate, by the way, and should be.
Good luck with the appeal.
David Brauer
Kingfield
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