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ORDINANCE NO.
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 37-25(c), SECTION 37-25(d)
"" AND SECTION 37-26(a), OF CHAPTER 37 OF THE CODE OF THE
CITY OF FORT WORTH (1964), AS AMENDED, BY REVISING CERTAIN
WASTEWATER RATES AND CHARGES; MAKING THIS ORDINANCE
CUMULATIVE OF PRIOR ORDINANCES; REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES
AND PROVISIONS OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF FORT WORTH IN
CONFLICT HEREWITH; PROVIDING A SAVINGS CLAUSE; PROVIDING A
SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT WORTH,
TEXAS
SECTION 1.
That Section 37-25 (c) of Chapter 37 of the Code of the City of
Fort Worth ( 1 964) , as amended, be and is hereby amended and , after
having been so amended, shall hereafter read and be 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 monthl y service
to all customers in the
and ten cents ($4.10).
charg e steal 1 be charg ed
amount of four dollars
"(2 ) A monthly volume charge shall also be
charged to all customers in the amount of six
hundred nine thousandths of a dollar ($0.609)
per one hundred (100) cubic feet of water used,
or wastewater produced, as more specifically set
forth hereinafter.
"The monthly volume charges for residential class
customers will be based on the ind iv id ual customer' s
average 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 ind ustrial
class customers will be based on total water use as meas-
ured by appropriate meters, with the provision that if a
customer can show, to the satisfaction of the director of
the waterworks department, 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."
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SECTION 2.
That Section 37-25 (d) of Chapter 37 of the Code of the City of
Fort Worth (1 964) , as amended , be and is hereby amended and , after
having been so amended, shall hereafter read and be as follows:
"(d) The Director of the Waterworks Department shall
establish a monitored group class, consisting of those
customers whose wastewater strength is, in his judgment,
abnormally high or whose wastewater contains limited sub-
stances or materials, and charges to customers in this
class shall be computed in accord with the following five-
part rate sched ul e
MONITORED GROUP
Customer monthly service charge $4.10
Volume charge, per 100 cubic feet $0.444
B.O.D. strength charge, per pound $0.0790
of B.O.D.
Suspended sol ids strength charge, per $0.0420
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 streng th of the wastewater prod uced , and when appro-
priate, 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 previ-
ously made for industrial waste strength."
SECTION 3.
That "Schedule B" of Section 37-26 (a) , Connection Charge, of
Chapter 37 of the Fort Worth City Code (19.64), as amended, be and
the same is hereby amended and, after having been so amended,
"Schedule B" shall hereafter read and be as follows:
"The minimum monthly charge shall be equal to and be
the same as the monthly service charge."
SECTION 4.
This ordinance shall be cumulative of all provisions and
ordinances and of the Code of the City of Fort Worth, Texas (1 964) ,
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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 5.
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 unconstitu-
tional 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 have been enacted by the City
Council without the incorporation in this Ordinance of any such
unconstitutional phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph or section.
SECTION 6.
That all rights or remedies of the City of Fort Worth, Texas,
are expressly saved as to any and all violations of Chapter 37 or of
any amendments thereto, of the Fort Worth City Code (1964), as
amended, which have accrued at the time of the effective date of
this ordinance; and as to such accrued violations, the Court shall
have all of the powers that existed prior to the effective date of
this ordinance .
SECTION 7.
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 8.
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 customer utility
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statements sent by the City of Fort Worth on or after October 1,
1985, and it is so ordained.
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DATE ~ REFERENCE SUBJECT Propo$e d er do d$ ewd er I PRGE
NUMBER Rate Adjustments ~ 5
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RECOM~ENDAT ION
It is recommended the City Council approve the attached Ordinances, adopting
new water and wastewater rate schedules as outlined below, to be charged all
retail customers of the Fort Worth Water Department with an effective date of
billing on and after October 1, 1985.
BACKGROUND
For the past several months, staff members of the Water Department and the
Office of Management Services have worked closely with the City Council Water
and Sewer Rate Advisory Committee. Three major issues have been examined (1)
the 1986 budgetary requirements of the Water Department, (2) the adequacy of
existing 1985 water and sewer rates to satisfy the increased budgetary require-
ment, and (3) the redesign of the existing five-block water rate schedule to
establish a more equitable rate structure. Recommendations concerning each of
these issues are outlined below.
BUDGETARY ISSUES
The fiscal year 1986 budget establishes the revenue requirement which must be
met through water and sewer service revenue, in conjunction with other sources
of utility income. The budget request for FY 1986, along with the adopted 1985
budget and reestimate, is shown below
ADOPTED
1984-1985
REESTIMATE
1984-1985
PROPOSED
1985-1986
WATER 540,320,054 $41,387,099 550,384,107
SEWER $31,644,428 $31,268,935 $35,625,854
Totals $71,964,482 $12,656,034 $86,009,961
The proposed .budget reflects a 19.5 increase over the 1984-85 adopted budget.
The major funding changes are a $5,400,352 increase in debt service, a
$6,126,911 increase in raw water costs, and an additional $900,000 for the
water and sewer capital improvement program. The proposed budget recommends a
net increase of 9.5 positions in Water and 6.5 positions in Sewer.
ADEQUACY OF EXISTING RATES
The existing rate schedule for water and wastewater service will not adequately
satisfy the 1986 budgetary requirement, as shown below:
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DATE REiERENCE SUBJECT: Proposed Water and Wastewater PAGE
NUMBER Rate Adjustments 2 ct 5
7/23/85 G-6389
FOR FY1986: WATER SEWER
Total Funds Requ ired $50,384,107 $35,625,854
Estimated Retail Service Revenue 535,164,472 $17,017,295
(under existing 1985 rates)
Other income $9,600,261 $13,398,031
Total projected income $44,764,733 $30,415,326
Additional funds needed $5,619,374 $5,210,528
(as % of retail revenue) 15.98% 30.62%
TOTAL
$86,009,961
$52,181,767
$22,998,292
$75,180,059
$10,829,902
20.75%
As indicated a revenue deficit for water and sewer services of approximately
16% and 31%, respectively is anticipated. However, rather than eliminating this
deficit solely through increased rates, a total of $5.5 million from prior
years' earnings can be carried forward to reduce the additional funds required,
as shown below
WATER SEWER TOTAL
Prior years' revenue $3,267,499 52,232,501 $5,500,000
(as % of retail revenue) 9.3% 13.1% 10.5%
Additional revenue from
rate adjustments $2,351,875 $2,978,027 $5,329,902
(as ~ of retail revenue) 6.7% 17.5% 10.2%
Additional funds provided $5,619,314 $5,210,528 $10,829,902
These figures indicate that a total retail revenue requirement of $37,516,347
for water and $19,995,322 for sewer must be captured through the respective
rate structures. This reflects the need for a blended overall retail rate
increase of 10.2%
RATE DESIGN -- WASTEWATER SERVICE
A 17.5% increase for retail normal strength wastewater service and volume
charges is recommended in order to obtain the requisite $19.99 million revenue
requirement. The resulting rate schedule follows:
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DATE REFERENCE suBJECT Proposed Water and Wastewater PAGE
NUMBER Rate Adjustments 3 5
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I. Normal Strength Customers EXISTING PROPOSED
Monthly service charge• $3.50 $4.10
Monthly volume rate:
per hundred cubic $0.518 $0.609
feet (CCF)
II. Monitored Customers
PROPOSED
Monthly Service Charge
Volume Charge
BOD Strength Charge
Suspended Solids Strength Charge
Monitoring Charge
$4.10
$0.444 per 100 Cu. Ft.
$0 0790 per pound of BOD
$0.0420 per pound of SS
Total Actual Cost
It is recommended that the existing method of levying a minimum monthly charge
for sewer service be eliminated. In addition, it is recommended that the 1500
cubic feet ceiling currently placed on the calculation of winter quarter resi-
dential sewer consumption be lifted. As a result, the monthly average of actual
water consumption measured for a residential unit during the winter quarter
(January, February, March) will be used as the basis for billing monthly sewer
volume.
RATE DESIGN -- WATER SERVICE
The current water rate schedule is composed of five blocks (four in the summer
months), with a different rate applied incrementally to consumption in each
block. With a five block rate structure, there is a disparity among rates paid
by customers whose consumption falls into different volume categories. Fewer
rate blocks would mean a more equitable rate comparison between customers with
widely differing consumption patterns. Thus, to generate the required $37.5
million in retail water revenue, a new three-block rate schedule has been
designed to substitute for the existing five-block, in order to establish a
more equitable rate structure for different customer classes. The three-block
rate structure eliminates the minimum monthly charge for water service and is
shown below
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DATE REFERENCE suBJECT: Proposed Water and Wastewater PAGE
NUMBER Rate Adjustments 4 5
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PROPOSED INSIDE CITY RATES
FOR RETAIL WATER SERVICE
I. Treated Water Service
METER SIZE
(in inc es
.625
.750
1.00
1.50
2.00
3.00
4.00
6.00
8.00
10.00
12.00
VOLUME CHARGES
MONTHLY CHARGE
WINTER
(October-May)
cubic feet per CCF
First 4000 $1.07
Next 246,000 $0.73
Over 250,000 $0.57
II. Fire Line Service
Connection Size
inches
4
6
8
10
III. Raw Water Service
All use per month.
52.30
$2.30
$3.75
$6.00
58.40
$18.40
$29.95
$58.80
$87.15
$115.50
$131.25
SUMMER
(June-September)
cubic feet per CCF
First 50,000 $1.07
Next 200,000 $0.73
Over 250,000 $0.57
Monthly
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$6.50
$9.75
$13.00
$21.65
$0. 28 per 1000 gallons
Attachment I provides a comparison of existing 1985 retail water and sewer
rates versus proposed rates for fiscal year 1986. Attachment II details the
individual impact of the new rate schedules an a representative sample of
retail water and wastewater customers.
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DATE REFERENCE SUBJECT proposed Water and Wastewater PAGE
NUMBER Rate Adjustments 5 5
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The rate adjustments recommended herein represent a blended increase of 10.2
overall for water and sewer service combined. As Attachment II demonstrates,
customers within different consumption blocks will incur increases both above
and below the 10.2 adjustment due in large part to the restructuring of the
five-block into athree-block rate schedule.
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