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ORDINANCK NO._____. SECOND SERIES an ordinance amending the orono city code TO ESTABLISH A STORM WATER DRAINAGE UTIUTY AND USER CHARGFii FOR THE STORM WATER DRAINAGE imUTY THE CITY OF ORONO. MINNESOTA DOES ORDAIN: SECTION 1. 'Fhc following language is hereby added lo the Orono Cily Code as Section 3.21- Rules and Regulations Relating lo Uie Storm Water and Drainage Utility. Section 1. Storm Sewer System: Statutory Authority. Minnesota Statutes, section 444.075, authorizes cities lo impose just and reasonable charges for the use and availability of storm sewer facilities ("charges"). By this section, the city elects to exercise such authority. Section 2. Findings and Determinations. In providing for such charges, the findings and determinations set out in this subsection are made. a. In the exercise of its governmental authority and in order to promote the public health, safety, convenience and general welfare, the city has constructed, operated and maintained a storm sewer system ("the system") This section is adopted in the further e.xcrcisc of such authority and for the same purpose. b. The system, as constructed, heretofore has been financed and paid for through the imposition of special assessments and ad valorem Utxes. Such financing methods were appropriate lo the circumstances at llie time they were used. It is now necessary and desirable lo provide an alternative method of recovering some or all of the future costs of improving, maintaining and operating the system through the imposition of charges as provided in this section. c. In imposing charges, it is necessary to establish a methodology that undertakes to make them just and equitable. Taking into account, the status of completion of the system, past methods of recovering system costs, the topography of the cily and other relevant factors, it is determined that it would be just and equitable to a.ssign responsibility for some or all of the future costs of operating, maintaining and improving the system on the basis of the expected stoim water runoff from the various parcels of land w ithin the cily during a standard 5 -year rainfall event. d. Assigning costs and making charges based upon expected typical storm water runoff cannot be done with mathematical precision but can only be accomplished within reasonable and practical limits. The provisions of this section undertake lo establish a reasonable and practicable methodology for making such charges. Page 1 o£ 4