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EXTRACT OF MINUTES OF MEETING OF CITY COUNCIL CITY OF ROSEVILLE RAMSEY COUNTY, MINNESOTA Pursuant to due call and notice thereof, a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Roseville, County of Ramsey, Minnesota, was duly held in the City Hall at 2660 Civic Center Drive, Roseville, Minnesota, on Monday, the 26th day of April, 2010, at 6:00 o'clock p.m. The following members were present: Ihlan; Johnson; Roe; Pust; and Klausing and the following were absent: none. Councilmember Klausing introduced the following resolution and moved its adoption: RESOLUTION 10806 RESOLUTION DIRECTING XCEL ENERGY TO UNDERGROUND OVERHEAD UTILITIES ON )f2ICE STREET BETWEEN COUNTY ROAD B AND COUNTY ROAD B-2 WHEREAS, Ramsey County in 2010, will be constructing roadway and enhancement improvements in Roseville on Rice Street between County Road B and County Road B-2; and WHEREAS, the roadway improvement project requires that Northern States Power Company d/b/a Xcel Energy relocate its overhead electric distribution facilities; and WHEREAS, the City seeks to enhance aesthetics along Rice Street by directing Northern States Power Company d/b/a Xcel Energy to underground its electric utility facilities between County Road B and County Road B-2; and WHEREAS, Xcel Energy will not agree to place its facilities underground within a county road unless the City agrees that it will not oppose Xcel Energy's recovery through a surcharge on customers within the City the additional costs it will incur because of the undergrounding of facilities; and WHEREAS, the City is in receipt of an engineering estimate dated April 19, 2010, outlining the estimated added cost of the requested undergrounding and the estimated monthly surcharge on Xcel Energy's customers in the City and acknowledges that the surcharge design and amount is based on a tariff approved by the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission on November 6, 2002 and that Xcel Energy has rights under its existing tariff to seek a surcharge for special facilities. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Roseville, Minnesota that: 1. Xcel Energy is hereby requested and directed to relocate and underground its overhead facilities along Rice Street from County Road B to County Road B-2.