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Elk River Stormwater Program Funding <br /> Q5 The goal of federal Clean Water Act is to ,�e�• <br /> ensure reliable and safe water for <br /> Americans. Elk River residents and City Hall <br /> are in this together. Please provide any <br /> other feedback you may have on our <br /> program including the need for additional <br /> public education, reporting of stormwater <br /> problems in your area, or thoughts for <br /> efforts above mandated requirements for <br /> cleaner stormwater. <br /> Answered:8 Skipped: 12 <br /> # Responses Date <br /> 1 Just as in our real home finance,when larger projects are necessitated we have but one option,pull from the 10/21/2014 6:52 AM <br /> j income source and cut back on some want.So it should be with government.Please do not add a stormwater <br /> utility fee onto any billing.Please do not increase the property tax.I ask that you find some want within the budget <br /> to fund the need.Historically a tax levy or a fee never goes away.The money gets added to budgets and <br /> budgets are never reduced. <br /> 2 People need to watch what goes into the water sources to begin with.To many people rake into the street and 9/27/2014 7:59 AM <br /> just let everything go wherever. <br /> 3 i Mother Nature decides on how much run off my property contributes to the storm sewer system.Same thing for 9/26/2014 7:20 PM <br /> business owners.They can't control how much comes off their properties as well.I feet a service fee makes more <br /> sense on this subject,that way your not singling big property owners out for more money when they can't control <br /> how much run off they have.Flat fee for everyone in the WHOLE city.That way no one can complain. <br /> 4 1 would like to see much more information on exactly what the MPCA is mandating that cities do.As of right now,1 9/26/2014 6:52 PM <br /> don't think this information is anywhere in a user-friendly,readable format.We might not be able to do anything <br /> about these mandates currently,but the citizens should at least be able to see whether an unelected body of <br /> bureaucrats is asking something completely onerous of us. <br /> 5 We moved to Elk River a year ago and I am surprised how large the drains in the street are...so that means larger j 9/26/2014 1:02 PM <br /> i <br /> pieces of debris are getting into the drain.We live in the Energy House III and called once in the spring to have <br /> the City come out to help us clean out the drain that dumps into the pond.It is at such a steep angle that it makes <br /> it almost impossible for the homeowner to do it themselves.But it was clogged with large plastic bottles,large <br /> I balls,and other large pieces of garbage.Not to mention it was covered with trees and brush.I see that your <br /> budget is low for maintaining these,but it was terrible.Not to mention the pond that my husband bought a net for <br /> and cleaned about 3 large garbage bags of trash out of...we do have a lot of wildlife that lives in and around this <br /> pond and it makes me sad that they live in the garbage.Not sure if maybe the drain covers can be made smaller <br /> (the bars are so far apart-lots of kids in our neighborhood play ball,etc around it)...thanks for listening. <br /> 6 Well another way for the city to nickle and dime us.we're still paying the road work from 2007 and then we get hit 9/22/2014 11:10 AM <br /> with the road fee,now just add another fee.lf the city would not buy property that sits for years or is not getting tax <br /> money at all back(ex.gotf course-forgiving property owners who don't pay taxes for years),there would to be <br /> money to help with this cost.instead of doing a survey online way not go out to the people in the city and really <br /> talk to them.You want real answers then go into the neighborhoods and get real input and not just from a few <br /> people who do have computers and do the survey.. <br /> 7 1 see a lot of waste in the city this could have been handled within the current levy or a combination of current 9/1912014 12:23 PM <br /> levy and a small increase the options are not mutually exclusive.Education on keeping the runoff cleaner or <br /> incentives for rain gardens or onside treatment would be better received.We live in a high tax low service <br /> neighbor hood with no city park and the last to be cleared out in the winter,if there was not an officer in the <br /> neighborhood I do not think we would even see that service,the raise in fees or taxes is semantics,it cost too <br /> much to live here for the service we receive. <br /> 1 / 2 <br />