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Lin Vee
From: Mike Gaffron
Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 12:11 PM
To: Tom Kellogg; Rachel Dodge
Cc: Lyle Oman; Lin Vee
Subject: FW: SAC Credits for Existing Homes
FYI... see response below from Met Council. Good news! We can document past SAC charges paid for the following
North Farm Road properties:
1669 - Built 1979—Paid SAC $425 w/permit#4140 on 11/14/79
1680- Built 1985—Paid SAC $425 w/permit#5599 on 4/24/85
1699 - Built 1979—Paid SAC $425 w/permit#3989 on 4/26/79
1709 - Built 1981—Paid SAC$425 w/permit#4460 on 4/9/81
1720- Built 1985—Paid SAC$425 w/permit#5655 on 6/17/85
1729 - Built 1983—Paid SAC$425 w/permit#4991 on 5/4/$3
These six properties will not be charged a SAC charge when they connect.
The homes at 1650 and 1749 were built after 1986 and did not pay a SAC charge with the original building permit. The
current SAC charge will be due at the time these two homes connect. No SAC charge was paid for the vacant lot at 1739.
Please contact me if you have any questions.
Michael P.Gaffron
Assistant City Administrator/Long Term Strategy
City of Orono
(Street Address)2750 Kelley Parkway
(Mailing Address) P.O. Box 66,Crystal Bay, MN 55323
Phone: (952)249-4600
Fax: (952)249-4616
From: Cappaert, Karon [mailto:Karon.CappaertCa�metc.state.mn.us]
Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 11:29 AM
To: Mike Gaffron
Subject: RE: SAC Credits for Existing Homes
Mike,
If you can show that a property has paid SAC in the past without being connected there will be no SAC charge
when they connect.
Karon Cappaert
SAC Administrative Technician
MCES-Finance
390 N Robert St
St Paul,MN 55101
karon.caopaertCa�metc.state.mn.us
Phone 651-602-1118 Fax 651-602-1030
Please visit our website for more information.
http://www.metrocouncil.orq/environmenURatesBillinq/SAC Proqram.htm
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From: Mike Gaffron [mailto:MGaffron@ci.orono.mn.us]
Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 5:20 PM
To: Cappaert, Karon
Subject: SAC Credits for Existing Homes
Karon—
We have a number of existing homes for which SAC charges were paid at the time they were built(1973 thru 1986) but
which did not have municipal sewer available at the time,and in many cases still do not have it available. In 1986 Met
Council discontinued requiring SAC charge collection for new home construction when those homes were not being
connected to the sewer. In 1989 Met Council offered metro area cities the option of a SAC refund program, in which
properties not connected to sewer but which had paid the SAC charge would get a refund. Orono, like many other
cities, opted out of this refund program, preferring to keep those SAC credits on file as'paid in full'for those homes,
many of which would eventually have sewer become available. In the past 24 years we have connected many existing
homes to the sewer system and those for which a SAC charge was paid between 1973 and 1986 were not required to
pay an additional SAC charge.
We have continued down this path without any problems. However,today I received information that I hope is
incorrect. I was told that a property that paid the SAC charge in 1980 but never connected to the sewer because it
wasn't available, and never got a SAC refund, would be subject to the current SAC charge. Apparently there is some sort
of"look-back" period of seven years,and this is where my confusion begins.
Please confirm for me that existing homes for which we can document a SAC was paid and forwarded to Met Council in
the period 1973-1986, and which are just now being provided with sewer,will not be subject to an additional SAC
charge.
Thanks in advance for your earliest response.
Mike
Michael P.Gaffron
Assistant City Administrator/Long Term Strategy
City of Orono
(Street Address)2750 Kelley Parkway
(Mailing Address) P.O.Box 66,Crystal Bay,MN 55323
Phone:(952)249-4622
Fax: (952)249-4616
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