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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 10373r ORDINANCE N0. AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTIONS 35-56(a), 35-56(b), 35-56(c) AND 35-56(d) AND ADDING SECTIONS 35-56(f) AND 35-56(g) OF CHAPTER 35 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF FORT WORTH (1986), AS AMENDED, BY ADDING A DEFINITION AND REVISING CERTAIN RATES AND CHARGES; MAKING THIS ORDINANCE CUMULATIVE OF PRIOR ORDINANCES; REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES AND PROVISIONS OF THE FORT WORTH CITY CODE IN CONFLICT HEREWITH; PROVIDING A SAVINGS CLAUSE; PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; PROVIDING FOR ENGROSSMENT AND ENROLLMENT; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT WORTH: SECTION 1. That Section 35-56(a) of Chapter 35 of the Code of the City of Fort Worth ( 1986) , as amended, and be the same is hereby amended by adding the following definition: "A wholesale customer is a municipality, town, village or other governmental entity or private firm contracting with a governmental entity for the provision of water andlor wastewater service." SECTION 2. That Section 35-56(b) of Chapter 35 of the Code of the City of Fort Worth ( 1986) , as amended, be and the same is hereby amended and, after having been amended, shall be read as follows: - 1 - ~~ "(b) The following schedule of rates per month, or fraction thereof, shall be the charges to all residential and nonresi- dential customers for furnishing water to such customer located within the city. The residential monthly volume charge for water service shall be the charges to the residential customer class, as defined in this chapter, for furnishing water to residential water customers located within the city The nonresidential monthly volume charge for water service shall be the charges to the nonresidential customer class, as defined in this chapter, for furnishing water to nonresidential water customers located within the city." RATE FOR WATER SERVICE MONTHLY SERVICE CHARGE FOR WATER Meter Size Monthly Inches Charge 5/8 x 3/4 3.05 1 5.45 1-1/2 9.40 2 14.15 3 26.80 4 41.00 6 80.70 8 128.25 10 183.75 12 208.75 - 2 - The monthly volume charge for water service is as follows: RESIDENTIAL CUSTOMER CLASS Cubic Feet Rate First 4,000 or less cubic feet of water used $1 28 per month, per 100 cubic feet For all in excess of 4,000 cubic feet of $1.44 water used per month, per 100 cubic feet NONRESIDENTIAL CUSTOMER CLASS Rates for October Cubic Feet Through May Billing First 4,000 or less cubic feet of water $1.67 used per month, per 100 cubic feet For the next 246,000 cubic feet of water $1.14 used per month, per 100 cubic feet For all in excess of 250,000 cubic feet $0.89 per month, per 100 cubic feet Rates for June Through September Cubic Feet Billing First 50,000 or less cubic feet of water $1.67 used per month, per 100 cubic feet For the next 200,000 cubic feet of water $1.14 used per month, per 100 cubic feet For all in excess of 250,000 cubic feet $0.89 per month, per 100 cubic feet RAW WATER SERVICE All use per month $0.53006 per 1,000 gallons inside Tarrant County Water Control and Improvement District No. 1 All use per month $0 62740 per 1,000 gallons outside Tarrant County Water Control and Improvement District No. 1 The service charges set out in the foregoing schedule are based upon the amount of water used as measured by meters. - 3 - SECTION 3. That Section 35-56(c) of Chapter 35 of the Code of the City of Fort Worth (1986) , as amended, be and the same is hereby amended and, after having been amended, shall be and read as follows: "(c) The following schedule of rates per month or fraction thereof shall be the basis for determining charges to all customers for rendering sanitary sewerage service, where the sewage produced by such customer is a normal strength wastewater (two hundred ten (210) mg/1 B.O.D. and two hundred forty (240) mg/1 suspended solids} and where such customer is located within the city: RATES FOR SEWERAGE SERVICE ONLY (1) A monthly service charge shall be charged to all customers in the amount of four dollars and fifty cents ($4.50}. (2) A monthly volume charge shall also be charged to all customers in the amount of eight hundred and seventy- one thousandths of a dollar ($0 871) per one hundred (100) cubic feet of water used, or waste water produced, as more specifically set forth hereinafter." "The monthly volume charges for residential class customers will be based on the individual customer's average - 4 - monthly water use during the preceding winter quarter months of December, January and February. The volumes used to compute these charges are based on the amount of water used by the residential class customer as measured by a meter. Where no preceding winter quarter average is available from records, the director shall estimate a volume to be used for this monthly volume charge." "The monthly charges to commercial and industrial class customers will be based on total water use as measured by appropriate meters, with the provision that if a customer can show, to the satisfaction of the director of the water depart- ment, that a significant portion of the metered water usage does not enter the sanitary sewers, the customer will be charged for only that volume entering the sewers, as determined by a method approved by the director." SECTION 4. That Section 35-56(d} of Chapter 35 of the Code of the City of Fort Worth (1986 } , as amended, be and the same is hereby amended and, after having been amended, shall be and read as follows: "(d) The director of the water department shall establish a monitored group class, consisting of those customers whose waste- - 5 - water strength is, in his judgment, abnormally high or whose wastewater contains limited substances or materials, and charges to customers in this class shall be computed in accord with the following five-part rate schedule: MONITORED GROUP Customer monthly service charge $4.50 Volume charge, per 100 cubic feet $0.569 B.O.D. strength charge, per pound of B.O.D. $0.074 Suspended solids strength charge, $0.137 per pound of suspended solids Monitoring and pretreatment charge Total actual cost." "The monitoring charge shall consist of all cost for personnel, material and equipment used to collect and analyze samples from the customer wastewater to determine the strength of the wastewater produced and, when appropriate, to inspect pretreatment facilities, to administer pretreatment permit systems and to enforce ordinance requirements Pretreatment requirements primarily affect industries which discharge toxic substances into the sewerage system." "This schedule shall replace all other charges previously made for industrial waste strength " SECTION 5. That Section 35-56(f) of Chapter 35 of the Code of the City of Fort Worth (1986) , as amended, be and the same is hereby - 6 - amended and, after having been amended, shall be and read as follows: "(f) The following schedule of rates per month, or fraction thereof, shall be the charges to all wholesale customers for furnishing water to such customers. Rate for Wholesale Water Service Volume ($1,000 gallons)* $ 0.3719 Maximum Day ($/Mgd excess) $57,873 Maximum Hour ($/Mgd excess) $30,935 Customer ($/Meter/month) $ 25 *pius raw water cost SECTION 6. That Section 35-56 of Chapter 35 of the Code of the City of Fort Worth (1986), as amended, is hereby further amended by adding subsection 35-56 (g), and after having been added, subsection 35-56 (g) shall be and read as follows: "(g) The following schedule of rates per month, or fraction thereof, shall be the charges of all wholesale customers for furnishing wastewater service to such customers. Rate for Wholesale Wastewater Service Volume ($/1,000 gallons) $0.3779 B.O.D. ($/pound) $0.0841 Suspended Solids ($/pound) $0.1482 Customer ($/month) $54 - 7 - SECTION 7. That Section 35-56 of Chapter 35 of the Code of the City of Fort Worth (1986), as amended, is hereby further amended by adding subsection 35-56 (h), and after having been added, subsection 35-56 (h) shall be and read as follows: "(h) Charges paid by municipal departments for water and sewerage services shall be paid for at the rates in effect " SECTION 8. This ordinance shall be cumulative of all provisions of ordinances and of the Code of the City of Fort Worth, Texas (1986), as amended, except where the provisions of this ordinance are in direct conflict with the provisions of such ordinances and such Code, in which event conflicting provisions of such ordinances and such Code are hereby repealed. SECTION 9. It is hereby declared to be the intention of the City Council that the sections, paragraphs, sentences, clauses and phrases of this ordinance are severable, and if any phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph or section of this ordinance shall be declared unconstitutional by the valid judgment or decree of any court of competent jurisdiction, such unconstitutionality shall not affect any of the remaining phrases, clauses, sentences, paragraphs and sections of this ordinance, since the same would - 8 - a have been enacted by the City Council without the incorporation in this ordinance of any such unconstitutional phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph or section. SECTION 10. The City Secretary of the City of Fort Worth is hereby directed to engross and enroll this ordinance by copying the caption in the minutes of the City Council and by filing the ordinance in the ordinance records of the City. SECTION 11 That this ordinance shall become effective and be in full force and effect from and after its passage; provided, however, that the increased rates specified herein shall apply to residential, nonresidential, and wholesale utility statements sent by the City of Fort Worth on or after November 1, 1989, and it is so ordained. APPROVED AS TO FORM AND LEGALITY: '`~-~--~ ity Attorney Date: ~/~Z/~/ Adopted: (~ Cam' Effective: 15 ~~~~ - 9 - MASpER FILE--&'~` ~~~1N/ ®~ 11 ®0 ~ ~®U L~~ 1L ~L/.~U~IAL~ ~~~ fr f eee~~~"' _- a ACCOUNTING•2 tRANSPORTA710N~PUBLIC.WJ . 94.R/~®~ ~~~ ~®~..(GG?~.tC?G~ ~®~~~~~~j~j~~®~ ~`" NATER ADMINISTRAt10N a CNIEi JUDGE. DATE REFERENCE SUBJECT PAGE NUMBER 1989 PROPOSED WATER AND SEWER 3 POl'iCE ADMIN ~rR8~~~89 G-8187 RATE INCREASES AND RATES > °r MUNICIPAL uw.>t AONI[iUl RECOMMENDATION It is recommended that the City Council approve the attached ordinance which revises water and sewer rates with an effective date of billing on or after November 1, 1989, and approve a net combined water and sewer rate increase of 13.9% above existing volume charges rates. DISCUSSION Since the water and sewer rate increase last year, debt service, raw water costs, and other operation and maintenance costs have continued to increase. Two major water expenditures, raw water costs and debt service, are expected to increase by $1,053,595 (4.5%) and $4,475,870 (40.3%) respectively. Due to major sewer capital improvements by the Trinity River Authority and the City, sewer debt service is expected to increase by $2,855,327 (24.7%). Without a rate increase to offset the increased costs in the FY 89/90 budget, the projected combined deficit for this year is $10,924,072. The large on-going water and sewer CIP program is expected to continue to drive up debt service and operation and maintenance costs in the coming years. The pro- posed 1990 water and sewer budget reflects every effort to restrain costs, including delaying the issuance of bonds through the use of a commercial paper program to fund for the construction of the Eagle Mountain Lake Water Treatment Plant and related projects until 1990, and obtaining low interest State revolving fund loans for Village Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant expan- sion projects. Water and sewer operating fund reserves are not adequate to offset the need for FY 1990 water and sewer rate increases. ~,, The Water Department staff conducted a water cost of serv~i~ce study and pre- sented water and sewer rate increase recommendations to the Council Rate Committee on July 11, 1989. As a result of these discussions with the Rate committee, water and sewer rate increases of 10.2% and 20.8, respectively, based on volume, are recommended. These percentages represent the net aver- age. Percentage change of each individual component of the water and sewer charge varies slightly. The following water and sewer rates are proposed by the Water Department Retail Water Rates Meter Size Present Monthly Water Service Charge Proposed Monthly Water Service Charge 5/8" X 3/4" $ 2.75 $ 3.05 1" $ 4.90 $ 5.45 :r DATE REFERENCE SUBJECT PAGE NUMBER jggg PROPOSED WATER AND SEWER 2 or 3 8/29/89 G-8187 RATE INCREASES ANA RAIES 1-1/2" $ 8.45 2~~ $ 12.70 3~~ $ 24.10 6~~ $ 36.90 $ 72.50 8~~ $115.20 10" $165.05 12" $187.50 Residential Monthly Water Volum e Charge Rate Per 100 Cubic Feet Water Use Cubic Feet Present 4,000 $1.15 Over 4,000 $1.30 Non-Residential Monthly Volume Charge Rate Per 100 Cubic Feet Oct-May June-Sept Water Use Cubic Feet Present Present 4,000 $1.51 $1.51 Next 46,000 $1.03 $1.51 Next 200,000 $1.03 $1.03 Over 250,000 $0.80 $0.80 $ 9.40' $ 14.15 26.80 $ 41.00 $ 80.70 $128.25 $183.75 $208.75 Proposed $1.28 $1.44 Oct-May June-Sept Proposed Proposed $1.67 $1.67 $1.14 $1.67 $1.14 $1.14 $0.89 $ .89 Retail Sewer Rates Present Proposed Sewer Charge $4.50 $0.871 $0.569 $0.074 $0.137 Sewer Charge Monthly Service Charge $4.50 Volume charge per $0.668 100 cubic feet Monitored customer Volume charge per $0.487 100 cubic feet B.O.D. strength charge, $0.087 per pound of B.O.D. Suspended solids strength charge, per pound of $0.046 suspended solids ,_ r ~„ Y- a 1: ^.. .~ ,~ z . ~.~ T ~ ~' ~~ ~r DATE REFERENCE NUMBER SUBJECT PAGE 1989 PROPOSED WATER AND SEWER 3 3 8/29/89 G-8187 RATE INCREASES AND RATE -~f- Wholesale Rates In accordance with provisions of the Customer Contracts for wholesale water and wastewater service, consulting firms are engaged every three years to review rate methodology and update wholesale water and wastewater rates. Rates will be revised in interim years by the Fort Worth Water Department staff . For FY 1990 rates, the water rate study was performed by Touche Ross and Company. The wastewater rate study was completed by Peat Marwick Main and Company. The studies resulted in the following rate structures Wholesale Water Rates Present Proposed Volume ($/1,000 gallons)* $0.3183 $0.3719 Maximum Day ($/Mgd excess) $62,974 $57,873 Maximum Hour ($/Mgd excess) $29,4.50 $30,935 Customer ($/Meter/Month) $ 25 $ 25 *Exlcudes raw water costs to be added when determined by Tarrant County Water Control and Improvement District. Wholesale Wastewater Rates Present Proposed Volume ($/1,000 gallons) $0.4295 $0.3779 BOD ($/pound) $0.0931 $0.0841 Suspended Solids ($/pound) $0.0472 $0.1482 Customer ($/Month) $ 53 $ 54 Raw Water Rates The cost of untreated water supplied by Tarrant County Water Control and Improvement District No. 1 is $0.49007 for use inside the District and $0.58007 outside th.e District. Adjusted for street rental and system loss, the raw water charge to customers is $0.53006 inside the ~ir~~~-~t~~and $0.62740 outside. ClTY_ COUNCIL RAM f/6 Attachment AlSG ~3 i989 J~~Xi 9~a~~dL,:, $ecrntacY of ens SUBMITTED FOR THE CITY MANAGER'S ~! ~ ~ DISPOSITION BY COUNCIL. ~• % ~~` PROCESSED BY OFFICE BY ^ APPROVED ORIGINATING ^ OTHER (DESCRIBE) DEPARTMENT HEAD• rd SdWe CITY SECRETARY FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION CONTACT 8 2 2~ ted Ordi //~' anCB N0. !~ DATE.