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Mike Gaffron <br /> From: Cappaert, Karon [Karon.Cappaert@metc.state.mn.us] <br /> Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 11:29 AM <br /> To: Mike Gaffron <br /> Subject: RE: SAC Credits for Existing Homes <br /> Mike, <br /> If you can show that a property has paid SAC in the past without being connected there will be no SAC charge <br /> when they connect. <br /> Karon Cappaert <br /> SAC Administrative Technician <br /> MCES-Finance <br /> 390 N Robert St <br /> St Paul,MN 55101 <br /> karon.cappaert@metc.state.mn.us <br /> Phone 651-602-1118 Fax 651-602-1030 <br /> Please visit our website for more information. <br /> http://www.metrocouncil.orq/environment/RatesBillinq/SAC Program.htm <br /> From: Mike Gaffron [mailto:MGaffron@ci.orono.mn.us] <br /> Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 5:20 PM <br /> To: Cappaert, Karon <br /> Subject: SAC Credits for Existing Homes <br /> Karon— <br /> We have a number of existing homes for which SAC charges were paid at the time they were built(1973 thru 1986) but <br /> which did not have municipal sewer available at the time,and in many cases still do not have it available. In 1986 Met <br /> Council discontinued requiring SAC charge collection for new home construction when those homes were not being <br /> connected to the sewer. In 1989 Met Council offered metro area cities the option of a SAC refund program, in which <br /> properties not connected to sewer but which had paid the SAC charge would get a refund. Orono, like many other <br /> cities,opted out of this refund program, preferring to keep those SAC credits on file as 'paid in full'for those homes, <br /> many of which would eventually have sewer become available. In the past 24 years we have connected many existing <br /> homes to the sewer system and those for which a SAC charge was paid between 1973 and 1986 were not required to <br /> pay an additional SAC charge. <br /> We have continued down this path without any problems. However,today I received information that I hope is <br /> incorrect. I was told that a property that paid the SAC charge in 1980 but never connected to the sewer because it <br /> wasn't available, and never got a SAC refund, would be subject to the current SAC charge. Apparently there is some sort <br /> of"look-back" period of seven years, and this is where my confusion begins. <br /> Please confirm for me that existing homes for which we can document a SAC was paid and forwarded to Met Council in <br /> the period 1973-1986, and which are just now being provided with sewer, will not be subject to an additional SAC <br /> charge. <br /> Thanks in advance for your earliest response. <br /> Mike <br /> Michael P.Gaffron <br /> 1 <br />