HomeMy WebLinkAbout120 - 11/20/2007 - AMENDING CHAPTER 26 OF THE CITY CODE RELATING TO WASTEWATER RATES AND CHARGES ORDINANCE NO. 120, 2007
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
AMENDING CHAPTER 26
OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
RELATING TO WASTEWATER RATES AND CHARGES
WHEREAS, the City Council is empowered and directed by Article XII, Section
6, of the Charter of the City of Fort Collins, Colorado, to by ordinance from time to time
fix, establish, maintain and provide for the collection of such rates, fees or charges for
utility services furnished by the City as will produce revenues sufficient to pay the costs
expenses and other obligations of the wastewater utility, as set forth therein; and
WHEREAS, Section 26-277 of the Code of the City of Fort Collins requires that
the City Manager analyze the operating and financial records of the wastewater utility
during each calendar year and recommend to the City Council the user rate fees or
adjustments to be in effect for the following year; and
WHEREAS, Section 26-277 further requires that the user rates shall be revised as
necessary to assure equity of the rate system established and to assure that sufficient
funds are obtained to adequately operate and maintain the wastewater system; and
WHEREAS, the treatment performance of the Mulberry Wastewater Reclamation
Plant has significantly degraded and $31.8 million is required to upgrade the plant's
secondary treatment processes, to prepare the plant for future regulation-based
improvements and to make odor control improvements; and
WHEREAS, such improvements are not related to growth and will require
increased user rates over the next five years in order to generate sufficient revenues to
repay the debt to finance these needed improvements; and
WHEREAS, the City Manager has recommended to the City Council that the
following wastewater rates be imposed for the billing year beginning January 1, 2008;
and
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF FORT COLLINS as follows:
Section 1. That Section 26-280 of the Code of the City of Fort Collins is
hereby amended to read as follows:
Sec. 26-280. Service charges established by category.
The schedule of rates for each category described in § 26-279 shall be as follows:
Category Class of Customer Rate
A Single-family residential user(flat rate) $23.15 per month
Single-family residential user (metered $10.21 per month plus $2.038 per
water use) 1,000 gallons of either winter quarter
water use or 3,000 gallons,
whichever is greater
B Duplex (two-family) residential users (flat $36.72 per month
rate)
Duplex (two-family) residential users $13.63 per month plus $2.038 per
(metered water use) 1,000 gallons of either winter quarter
water use or 4,000 gallons,
whichever is greater
C Multi-family residential user (more than $2.038 per 1,000 gallons of winter
two dwelling units including mobile home quarter water use, plus a base charge
parks) and winter quarter based of $1.61 per month per dwelling
nonresidential user unit served
D Minor nonresidential user $2.038 per 1,000 gallons of water
use, measured sewage flow or winter
quarter water use, whichever is
applicable, plus the following
applicable base charge:
Size of water meter (inches) Base
charge
3/ or smaller $ 6.88
1 15.71
1'/Z 31.81
2 53.23
3 88.46
4 148.56
6 728.34
8 790.88
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E and F Intermediate nonresidential user $2.038 per 1,000 gallons of water use
and Significant industrial user measured wastewater flow or winter quarter
water use, whichever is applicable; plus a
surcharge of $1.953 per million gallons for
each milligram per liter of suspended solids in
excess of 250 milligrams per liter; plus a
surcharge of $1.640 per million gallons for
each milligram per liter of BOD in excess of
200 milligrams per liter or a surcharge of
$1.011 per million gallons for each milligram
per liter of COD in excess of 300 milligrams
per liter, or a surcharge of $2.936 per million
gallons for each milligram per liter of TOC in
excess of 100 milligrams per liter, whichever
is applicable. The user shall pay this
calculated amount plus the applicable base
charge set forth below:
Size of water meter (inches) Base
charge
'/4 or smaller $ 6.88
1 15.71
1'/z 31.81
2 53.23
3 88.46
4 148.56
6 728.34
8 790.88
G User outside City limits The rate for users outside the City limits shall
be the same as for like service inside the City
limits as is specified in Categories A—F and
H in this Section
H Special with agreement The rate pursuant to a special wastewater
services agreement approved by the City
Council pursuant to § 26-290 shall be set forth
in said agreement.
Section 2. That paragraph (a) of Section 26-282 of the Code of the City of
Fort Collins is hereby amended to read as follows:
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Sec. 26-282. Wastewater strength or industrial surcharges and categories
established.
(a) The schedule of wastewater strength surcharge for customers located either
inside or outside the City limits shall be as follows:
Parameter Excess over (mg/1) Rate per 1,000 gallons
BOD 200 $0.001640
COD 300 0.001011
TOC 100 0.002936
TSS 250 0.001953
Section 3. That the amendments to Chapter 26 of the City Code contained
herein shall go into effect on January 1, 2008.
Introduced and considered favorably on first reading, and ordered published this
16th day of October, A.D. 2007, and to be presented for fi passage on the 20th day of
November, A.D. 2007.
Mayor
TEST:
City Clerk
Passed and adopted on final reading on the 20th da November, A.D. 2007.
Mayor
ATTEST:
1
City Clerk
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