Res 74 - 17 Urging Adoption of Legislation to Regulate Gas & Electric Utility RatesCITY OF MENDOTA HEIGHTS
Dakota County, Minnesota
RESOLUTION N0. 74-17
RESOLUTION URGING ADOPTION OF LEGISLATION TO
REGULATE GAS AND ELECTRIC UTILITY RATES
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� WHEREAS, the subject of gas and electric utility regulation has
been a matter of debate in the legislature for a number of years; and
WHEREAS, only several of the over 700 municipalities in the state
have the power or fiscal resources to conduct utility rate hearings,
which has lead to unfair and discriminatory rates between,adjacent
municipalities; and
WHEREAS, these monopolistic utility operations are regulated
in some forty-eight states; and
WHEREAS, efforts to form a metropolitan rate authority have
failed; and
WHEREAS, the recent rate increase announced by Northern States
Power Company is of an unusually large magnitude without the benefit
of any public analysis;
NOW THEREFORE IT IS�HEREBY RESOLVED by the City Council of the
City 'of Mendota Heights that the City Council strongly urges the
legislature to adopt legislation to include gas and electric utility
rate regulation on a state wide basis; and
IT IS FURTHER RESOLVED that such legislation should include
that the rate base be premised on "original cost depreciated"; and
IT IS FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this resolution be sent
to Representative Raymond Kempe and Senator Howard Knutson and
members of the appropriate legislative committees.
Adopted by the City Council of the City of Mendota Heights this
Fifth day of February, 1974.
CITY COUNCIL
�\ CITY OF MENDOTA HEIGHTS
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By Robert G. Lockwood /s/
Acting Mayor