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e " The PowerC?mpan:-, represented b~r Iv.r. Foster, L.G. 1elson and Torn \~h1te, after some discu~Bion relative to these proposed rates, asked until konday, November 28 1~3~ to check over our proposal and submit an answer 1 30' 9 ll.l.onday, the !8th, was fixed as the time of meeting: ' It w~s then moved by C.E.Brown and seconded bv G~o. Corne11us that the rate report submitted b; 1X.~ R1chardson and the report submitted by H.W.koodv as spec- ial attorney.for the village be approved and fiied and ord~red pub116hed as a part of the official minutes of the Village Council. Upon vote the same was unanimously carried, !"!01~ORAB1.r~ VILJ...AG1'. COUl~C 111 ~LK RIV~R? kINb~SOTA, Gentleman. 'You have re~uested that I report to you on certain ~uestions which have artsen in connection with the propoced election on the municipal light plant, In the first place it is well to bear in mind tha~ astheVillage Council and reresenting the citizens of ~lk River you started to secure rate reduction appr_ oximately a year ago and to date ;70U have not in fact secured an~ reduction, I know of no other business that hao not voluntaril~T reduced its rates and chalges or prices to a consideralbe degree within the last two years, ~xcept the telephone com,panies who al so enjoy a monopoly.'~ tow that the !ouncil has asked the ,people to give them the necessar~ authority to deal ade~uately with the rates the citizens have been given many figures as to other J places and it is well to remember that through various combinations of figures an~T desired result can be obtain- ed by changing combinations, However the Council has proceeded in an ordf.r~ and business like manner in the matter of rate reduction. Many en;gineers were considered and after caI'cfully check- ing reliable sources, the Council retained 1x, Ralph Richardson, Consulting ~ngineer of St,Paul, who has had years of industrial and munici~al experience and is qual- ified ~o furnish sound advice as to the cost of a muni- cipal plant, as to what it will cost to maintain and operate the plant, and as to what the Village may expect in the way of rates, He has given ~TOU a fair and unbias- ed report and, if the citizens of Elk River are to!. " receive the rates for electricity to which they are en_ titled, they must cooperate with the Council to carry out the program arranged for rate reduction which the Council gas set up after a caI'eful study of facts during the past year, On Page tJ of the Sherburne County Star }lews of Nov. 17th, 1~32, the Power Company has an advertise- ment headednn:Ow lY..uch Do You lay In Taxes", This shows that the average 1?31 municipal taxes for all towns in Kinneasota between1 cee and 2 000 population which have municipally owned" eiectrical eenerating plants or distri- bution systems was !21.10 per person, I checked the figures in the League 0 Minnesoa fuunicifali~ies leal' Book for 1~32, pages 142 to 14{, and . / found listed therc1n eleven ~owns between 1 ,000 and2,CCO population which generate and distribute electric currem One of these towns was Buhl, which is on the fron Range e e . . .