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RESOLUTION NO. 2009 - ~ A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF SUNNY ISLES BEACH, FLORIDA, AUTHORIZING THE PAYMENT OF TWELVE THOUSAND DOLLARS ($12,000.00) PURSUANT TO THE INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY AND THE MUNICIPAL UNDERGROUNDING UTILITIES CONSORTIUM (MUUC) FOR THE CITY'S SHARE OF LEGAL FEES TO REPRESENT LOCAL GOVERNMENTS BEFORE THE PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION, A TT ACHED HERETO AS EXHIBIT "A"j AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO DO ALL THINGS NECESSARY TO EFFECTUATE THIS RESOLUTIONj PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE. WHEREAS, Section 163.01, Florida Statutes, authorizes local governing bodies to enter into agreements for the mutual benefit of governmental units; and WHEREAS, the Municipal Underground Utilities Consortium (MUUC) consists of over fifty (50) cities in Florida with over thirty (30) being dues paying members, to gather and share information on all things pertaining to underground utilities jointly funding the study of underground utility service, and to provide a vehicle for the purpose of participating in relevant proceedings before the Florida Public Service Commission, the Florida Legislature, or any other relevant agency or branch of government; and WHEREAS, there is a great deal of activity on undergrounding and hardening of facilities at the Public Service Commission which MUUC participants actively and formally participate in which the current focus of MUUC has been to initiate a study of the FPL tariff that proposed a 25% credit for local government underground conversion projects; and WHEREAS, on February 15, 2007, the City Commission entered into an Interlocal Agreement with the Municipal Undergrounding Utilities Consortium via Resolution No. 2007- 1054, in the amount of Five Thousand Three Hundred Thirty-Eight Dollars ($5,338.00) for the City's Participation in said Consortium to cost share that study to have a sound basis for evaluating all relevant costs and benefits, on a complete, life-cycle cost basis, of converting existing overhead electric distribution facilities, and other utility facilities to underground service facilities; and WHEREAS, on January 15, 2009, the City Commission joined the participating cities in the MUUC in approving the First Amendment to the Interlocal Agreement, via Resolution No. 2009-1371, extending the agreement through December 31, 2010; and WHEREAS, MUUC has submitted to the City the third invoice/assessment in the amount of Twelve Thousand Dollars ($12,000.00) for the City of Sunny Isles Beach's share of the legal fees to represent local governments before the Public Service Commission; and. R2009- MUUR Payment for Litigation re Undergrounding of Utility Facilities Page I of2