City of Brooklyn Center v. Metropolitan Council

Sheran, Chief Justice.

Appeals from a judgment and an intermediate order entered in a declaratory judgment proceeding brought to determine the statutory validity of a formula adopted by the Metropolitan Sewer Service Board (Board) 1 and approved by the Metropolitan Council (Council) 2 for the allocation and collection of debt service costs for the unused capacity of treatment works and interceptors in the metropolitan sewage disposal system. Affirmed in part; reversed in part. 3

Reacting to a recognized need for coordinating local governmental operations in the St. Paul-Minneapolis metropolitan…