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AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION
COUNTY OF HENNEPIN)
Richard Hendrickson, being duly sworn on an oath states or affirms, that he is the Chief
Financial Officer of the newspaper known as Sun -Post and has full
knowledge of the facts stated below:
(A) The newspaper has complied with all of the requirements constituting qualification as a
qualified newspaper, as provided by Minn. Stat. §331 A.02, §331 A.07, and other applicable
laws, as amended.
(B) The printed public notice that is attached was published in the newspaper once each week,
for one successive weeks; it was first published on Thursday, the 2 day of
October 2003, and was thereafter printed and published on every Thursday to and
including Thursday, the day of 2003; and printed below is a copy of the
lower case alphabet from A to Z, both inclusive, which is hereby acknowledged as being the
size and kind of type used in the composition and cation' e notice:
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on this day of 2003,.
Notary P
MERIDEL M. HEDBLOM
NOTARY PUBLIC- MINNESOTA
MY COMMISSION EXPIRES 1.31 -2005
(1) Lowest classified rate paid by commercial users
for comparable space
(2) Maximum rate allowed by law
(3) Rate actually charged
RATE INFORMATION
2.85 per line
6.20 per line
1.40 per line
City of Brooklyn Center
(Official Publication)
CITY OF BROOKLYN CENTER
Notice is hereby given that a public hearing will be held
on the 27th day of October 2003, at 7:00 p.m: or as soon
thereafter as the matter may be heard at. City Hall, 6301
Shingle Creek Parkway, to consider an electric franchise
fee ordinance. Auxiliary aids for handicapped persons are
available upon request at least 96 hours in advance.
Please notify the Deputy City Clerk at 763- 569 -3300` to
make arrangements.
ORDINANCE NO.
AN ORDINANCE IMPOSING AN ELECTRIC FRAN-
CHISE FEE ON NORTHERN STATES POWER'S OPER-
ATIONS WITHIN THE CITY OF BROOKLYN CENTER
THE CITY COUNCIL OF BROOKLYN CENTER, HEN-
NEPIN COUNTY, MINNESOTA, DOES ORDAIN AS
FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. The City Code is hereby amended to include
the following Special Ordinance.
Subd. 1: Purpose The Brooklyn Center City Council has
determined that it is in the best interests of the City to im-
pose a franchise fee or equivalent fee on those public util-
ity companies that provide gas or electric services within
the City. Pursuant to City Ordinance No. 97 -09, a Fran-
chise Agreement between the City and Northern States
Power, dba Xcel Energy "NSP"), the City has the right to
impose a franchise fee.
Subd. 2. Franchise Fee. A franchise fee ("Fee is hereby
imposed on NSP under its electric Franchise in the
amount of 3.00% of the gross revenue of NSP operations
within the City applied to each customer on an equal per-
centage basis, commencing with the NSP January 2004
billing month.
Subd. 3. Payment. The Fee shall be payable to the City hi
accordance with the terms set forth in the Franchise.
Subd.4. Surcharge. The City acknowledges thatNSPmay
choose to add the full amount of the Fee as a customer sur-
charge to reimburse the Company for the Fee. NSP shall
provide to the City a copy of theirroposed customer bill line
item describing the Fee thirty days byre the first ball col-.
lecting the Fee is sent to customers.
Snbd. 5., Proof of Customer Uwe, NSP shall make each
payment when due and shall quarterly furnish a complete
and correct statement of gross operating revenues for said
quarter. NSP shall permit the City and its designated rep-
eeen tative reasonable access to the eo® yey_s records fiw
he purpose of verifying such statements.
Subd. 6: Enforcement. Any dispute, including enforce-
ment of a default regardingthis ordinance will be resolved
in accordance with the Franchise.
SECTION 2. This ordinance shall become effective after
adoption and upon thirty (30) days following its legal pub-
lication.
Adopted this day of ,2003.
Mayor
ATTEST:
City Clerk
Date of Publication
Effective Date
(Underline indicates new matter, brackets indicate matter
to be deleted.)
(Oct 2, 2003)PI/Electric Franchise Fee