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ARDEN HILLS CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION - MAY 17, 2021 13 City Administrator Perrault said the interesting thing about these readings was that generally speaking the leak would start happening at night and shut off during the day. Councilmember Holden proposed that they do a 50% split on anything above the normal average. Councilmember Holmes agreed. Councilmember Scott still felt they should write it off. Councilmember McClung said that by not being able to point to exactly what went on, he felt that would be a little too much to charge. He suggested they take an average cost over a number of quarters. Councilmember Holmes suggested they should be consistent with both addresses, and split it down the middle. Finance Director Bauman said the Cleveland address total bill was just under $3,000 and their normal bill was around $250 - $300. Councilmember McClung thought they should write off the majority of the bill. Councilmember Scott wanted to charge the nominal rate. Councilmember Holden wanted to split the difference. Councilmember Holmes was willing to split the difference. Mayor Grant instructed staff to split the difference from the average bill amount and the higher one for the Arden View Drive address. Council agreed to extend the meeting an additional ten minutes. Mayor Grant asked how we got a reading on the Cleveland Avenue home. Finance Director Bauman said they requested a read from the tenants and they sent it in to the City. The City did get an actual reading in January and February and the number they submitted was in line with those reading. They would have intermittent reads of approximately 259 gallons an hour, sometimes for hours. Councilmember McClung asked if this would have been something that would normally have been flagged and a leak letter sent. Finance Director Bauman replied that because it was intermittent they may or may not have caught it when they were running the report. There is a possibility they may have gotten a notification if we had been receiving the readings. Councilmember Holden suggested they split 50150 on anything above the normal average.