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<br />! <br /> <br />RESOLUTION NO. 05- 0 2 2 <br /> <br />RESOLUTION DIRECTING XCEL ENERGY TO UNDERGROUND OVERHEAD <br />UTILITIES ALONG RICE CREEK ROAD FROM STINSON BOULEVARD TO <br />LONG LAKE ROAD <br /> <br />WHEREAS, during 2005, roadway and boulevard improvements will be completed on Rice Creek Road <br />from Stinson Boulevard to Long Lake Road within the Cily to provide for improved traffic safety; and <br /> <br />i : WHEREAS, the City seeks to improve safety and aesthetics along Silver Lake Road by directing Xcel <br />! 1 Energy to underground its electric utilily facilities along Rice Creek Road; and <br /> <br />; i WHEREAS, Xcel will not agree to place its facilities underground on this project unless it recovers through <br />: a surcharge on customers within the City the additional costs it will incur because of the undergrounding offacilities; <br />, and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, the City is in receipt of a Scoping Estimate and Special Facilities Surcharge dated December 3, <br />. ' 2004, outlining the estimated cost of the requested undergrounding and the estimated monthly surcharge on Xcel's <br />, ; customers in the City; and <br /> <br />NOW, THEREFORE, BE JT RESOLVED by the City Council of the Cily of New Brighton, Minnesota that: <br />I. Xcel Energy is hereby requested and directed to relocate its overhead facilities along Rice Creek <br />Road from Stinson Boulevard to Long Lake Road underground. <br /> <br />2. The City agrees that it will not oppose a surcharge on customers ofXcellocated within the City, <br />The amount shall be Xcel's necessary, actual and reasonably incurred costs of under grounding Jess <br />the costs Xcel would have incurred through relocation of its overhead lines along the project site <br />because of the Rice Creek Road project <br /> <br />3. The City does not waive its right to verifY by legal means available to it that the amount of <br />surcharge is the necessary, actual and reasonable cost incurred. <br /> <br />, ' Adopted this 22th day of March, 2005. <br /> <br />Jb~~ <br /> <br />: ATTEST: <br /> <br />,(:~/I(;r.~:(>j; )l::::r (,l :(/.;.C <br /> <br />: Daniel A. Maiers, <br />Director of Fin ante and Support Services <br /> <br /> <br />fzr m.P <br />atthew S, Fulton, City Manager <br /> <br />: i (SEAL) <br /> <br />, ; <br />, i <br />