HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 9180ORDINANCE NO. ~~a
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; PROVIDE-NG A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; PROVID-
ING FOR ENGROSSMENT AND ENROLLMENT; AND PROVID-
ING 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 3~7 of the Code of the City of
Fort Worth (1964), 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 monthly service charge shall be charged to
all customers in the amount of three dollars and
fifty cents ($3.50).
(2) A monthly volume charge
charged to all customers in the
hundred eighteen thousandths
($0.518) per one hundred (100)
water used, or wastewater producE
cifically set forth hereinafter.
shall also be
amount of five
of a dollar
cubic feet of
'd, as more spe-
"The monthly volume charges for residential class
customers will be based on the individual customer's
average monthly water use during the preceding winter
quarter months of December, January and February, but in
no event shall the volume used to compute this monthly
charge exceed one thousand five hundred (1,500) cubic
feet. The volumes used to compute these charges are based
on the amount of water used by the residential class cus-
tomer 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, such estimated volume not to exceed one thousand
five hundred (1,500) cubic feet..
"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 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."
SECTION 2.
That Section 37-25(d,a of Chapter 37 of the Code of the City of
Fort Wort'n (1964), 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 schedule:
MONITORED GROUP
Customer monthly service charge $3.50
Volume charge, per 100 cubic feet $0.335
B.O.D. strength charge, per pound $0.0795
of B.O.D.
Suspended solids strength charge, per $0.0521
pound of suspended solids
Monitoring and
pretreatment charge Total cost to City
"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 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 sew-
erage system.
"This schedule shall replace all other charges pre-
viously 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 (1964), as amended, be and
the same is hereby amended, and, after having been so amended,
"Schedule B" shall hereafter read and be as follows:
"SCHEDULE B
Sewer Service Only
Meter Size Cubic Feet
(inches) Allowed Monthly Minimum Charge
5/8 x 3/4 10.0 $ 4.00
1 250 4.80
1 1/2 500 6.10
2 800 7.65
3 - 1,500 11.25
4 2,500 16.45
6 5,000 29.40
8 10,000 55.30
10 15,000 81.20
12 21,000 112.3
SECTION 4.
This ordinance shall be cumulative of all provisions of ordi-
nances and of the Code of the City of Fort Worth, Texas (1964), 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 ordi-
nance 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
statements sent by the City of Fort Worth on or after October 1,
1984, and it is so ordained.
APPROVED AS TO FORM AND LEGALITY:
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.Mayor and Cou.n~al Comanuni~a~a.on
DATE REFERENCE SUBJECT Proposed Water and Wastewater ~ PAGE
NUMBER \ Rate Increase I i of 4
8/28/84 G-6088~~ed~5ed ) ___
On December 22, 1983 Black & Veatch, Engineers-Architects (M&C C-8138) was
retained by the Water Department to perform retail water and wastewater service
rate studies. Working with City staff and the City Council Rate Advisory Com-
mittee, the consultants have examined the adequacy of the existing water and
wastewater rates in regard to projected revenue requirements. Based on the
revenue requirement findings and flow of funds studies, a uniform across-the-
board water rate increase of 13 percent and wastewater rate increase of 5 per-
cent are proposed.
The effects of general inflation on operating expenses, anticipated substantial
increases in the cost of raw water purchased from the Tarrant County Water Con-
trol and Improvement District No. 1, projected increases in revenue bond debt
service to meet increasing major capital improvement requirements, and the need
to maintain more sophisticated odor control and treatment facilities at the
Village Creek Treatment Plant are all principal contributing factors responsi-
ble for the magnitude of the revenue increase proposed.
The effect which the recommended October 1, 1984, rate adjustments will have on
selected typical water and wastewater customer bills is illustrated in Table C
(attached). As noted in the table, the proposed water charges to residential
customers using 500 cubic feet of water per month (3750 gallons) would increase
$.85 or less than 3~ per day; the wastewater charge would increase $.25, or
less than a penny per day. Nearly 30 percent of all monthly residential custo-
mer bills are for this monthly water use or less.
In addition to the uniform across-the-board rate increase for water service, it
is also recommended that the following special water service charges be
adjusted as indicated:
Service
Present Recommended
Activation $ 7.60 $10.00
Lock/Field Connection 10.35 20.00
Broken Lock 10.00 25.00
Straight connection/plug 10.00 50.00
These special services are not utilized regularly by all water customers and it
is believed that the user-charge concept equitably targets these cost centers.
Completion of the full water and wastewater utility cost of service allocation
studies and final report is expected about November 1, 1984. These studies will
indicate the extent to which-revenue from each customer class is recovering its
share of the cost of the service being provided, in addition to projected rate
increases for the fiscal years 1985/86 and 1986/87. Various features of the
City's present rate format are being examined to evaluate cost responsiveness,
ease of application and understanding, and how well the needs of the City and
DATE REFERENCE SUBJECT Proposed Water and Wastewater PAGE
NUMBER Rate Increase 2 4
8/28/84 G-6088 °i
its utility customers are being served. Among the features under review are
the City's present summer water rate differential, its suitability in current
application, and consideration of possible alternatives which may be more
cost-responsive while at the same time easing the impact of rate increases on
uniform, small-volume water users. The final study will also evaluate the eco-
nomic feasibility of continuing to maintain the 1,500 cubic feet ceiling cur-
rently used to calculate monthly wastewater volume charges for residential cus-
tomers. In addition, City staff is reviewing capital recovery charges to pro-
vide up-front contributions by developers for a portion of the capital improve-
ment program.
Various changes in the present rate structure may be proposed as a result of
these studies. Although such changes could result in some upward or downward
changes in the total charges to be paid by individual customers in the 1985
fiscal year, no overall increase in water and wastewater revenues beyond that
provided by these proposed across-the-board rate adjustments is anticipated in
1985.
The following rate schedules for water and wastewater are proposed:
SCHEDULE OF PROPOSED INSIDE CITY RATES
FOR RETAIL WATER SERVICE
I. Treated Water Service:
Monthly Service Charge
Meter Size Amount Meter Size Amount
Inches $ Inches $
5/8 x 3/4 2.05 4 26.55
1 3.15 6 52.45
1-1/2 5.25 8 77.45
2 7.30 10 102.55
3 16.10 12 117.80
Monthly Volume Charge
Regular (October -May) Summer (June - September)
Water Use Rate Water Use Rate
Ccf $/Ccf Ccf $/Ccf
First 20 1.01 First 500 1.01
Next 480 0.71 Next 750 0.67
Next 750 0.67 Next 1,250 0.60
Next 1,250 0.60 Over 2,500 0.53
Over 2,500 0.53
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'DATE REFERENCE SUBJECT Proposed Water and Wastewater PAGE
NUMBER Rate Increase 3 0~ 4
8/28/84 G-6088
Minimum Monthly Charge
Meter Size Regular Summer Meter Size Regular Summer
Inches $ $ Inches $ $
5/8 x 3/4 3.05 3.05 4 50.30 51.80
1 5.70 5.65 6 93.95 102.95
1-1/2 10.30. 10.30 8 154.45 178.45
2 15.35 15.40 10 2.15.05 254.05
3 31.25 31.25 12 272.90 329.90
II. Fire Line Service
Connection Size Monthly Charge
Inches $
4 6.10
6 9.15
g 12.20
10 20.35
First 1,000,000 gallons per month $0.19 per 1,000 gallons
All additional use per month $0.15 per 1,000 gallons
Ccf -Hundred cubic feet
SCHEDULE OF PROPOSED INSIDE CITY RATES
FOR RETAIL WASTEWATER SERVICE
III. Raw Water Service:
I. Normal Strength Customers:
Monthly Service Charge
All Customers $ 3.50 per customer
All Volume
Monthly Volume Charge
0.518 per Ccf
Monthly Minimum Charge
5/8 x 3/4 inch meter $ 4.00
1 inch meter $ 4.80
1-1i2 inch meter $ 6.10
2 inch meter $ 7.65
3 inch meter $ 11.25
4 inch meter $ 16.45
6 inch meter $ 29.40
8 inch meter $ 55.30
10 inch meter $ 81.20
12 inch meter $ 112.30
DATE REFERENCE SUF3JECT Proposed Water and Wastewater PAGE
8/28/84 NUMBER
G-6088 Rate Increase 40~ 4
Monthly volume charges for Residential Class customers are based on the custo-
mer's average monthly water use during the preceding winter quarter months of
December, January, and February; but in no event does the volume used to com-
pute monthly charges exceed 1,500 cubic feet.
II. Monitored Customers:
Customer Charge $ 3.50 per Bill
Volume Charge $ 0.335 per Ccf
BOD Strength Charge $ 0.0795 per Pound of BOD
Suspended Solids Strength
Charge $ 0.0521 per Pound of SS
Monitoring charge At Cost
Ccf - Hundred cubic feet.
Recommendations:
It is recommended that the City Council adopt the attached Ordinances, adopt-
ing new water and wastewater -rate schedules as outlined above as the rates to
be charged all customers of the Fort Worth Water Department with an effective
date of billing on and after October 1, 1984.
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