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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,August 12, 2019 Page 12 Roll Call Ayes: Etten, Willmus, Laliberte, Groff, and Roe. Nays: None Consider Adjusting Rate Structure for Residential Water Rates City Engineer/Assistant Public Works Director Jesse Freihammer briefly high- lighted this item as detailed in the Request for Council Action and related attach- ments dated August 12, 2019. Mayor Roe noticed on the charts for Edina and St. Louis Park, there was a line for irrigation and wondered if that is added on top of the tiers. Mr. Freihammer explained those amounts are for homes with separate irrigation meters. Councilmember Willmus asked if Edina and St. Louis Park draw surface water like Roseville does. Mr. Freihammer believed that portions of Edina are tied to Minneapolis, but he thought this part was probably ground water. He was not sure about St. Louis Park. Councilmember Willmus stated in one of the slides it noted some condos are in- cluded in this. He asked for staff to elaborate a little more on this. Mr. Freihammer stated if condos have individual meters then this would be counted by that. If the condos are sharing a master meter, it would not be count- ed. Councilmember Willmus wondered why none of the apartment complexes are a part of this. Mr. Freihammer explained the Commission focused on that and did have further discussion on whether apartments should be pulled into the residential fee sched- ule. The difficulty the city has is that apartments have different sized meters serv- ing different sized apartment buildings and that rate schedule on the commercial side is completely different than the residential, which is why single family is the focus on the residential rate schedule. Councilmember Willmus asked for residential homes, what variation of meter size is there and what variation in terms of base fee for those meters. Mr. Freihammer explained the city would only go after ones that are currently un- der the standard residential meter, the 5/8 meter. If there was a different size me- ter, then it would be under a different fee schedule.