HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 22891-09-2017 ORDINANCE NO. 22891-09-2017
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 35-56 (b), (c) and (d) OF
CHAPTER 35, "WATER AND SEWERS", OF THE CODE OF THE
CITY OF FORT WORTH (2015), AS AMENDED, BY REVISING
AND ADDING CERTAIN VOLUME 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; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE
DATE.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT WORTH,
TEXAS:
SECTION 1.
That Section 35-56(b) of Chapter 35 of the Code of the City of Fort Worth (2015), as
amended, is hereby amended to read as follows:
(b) The following schedule of rates per month, or fraction thereof, shall be the charges
to all residential and nonresidential customers for furnishing water to such
customers located within the city. The residential monthly volume charge for water
service shall be the charges to the residential 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 classes, as defined in this chapter, for furnishing water to
nonresidential water customers located within the city.
RETAIL WATER RATES
Monthly Service Charge for Water
Meter Size (inches) Monthly charge
5/8 X 3/4 $12.10
3/4 X 3/4 $12.35
1 $25.55
1-1/2 $48.00
2 $75.00
3 $198.40
4 $339.80
6 $721.45
8 $1,260.20
10 $1,888.75
The monthly volume charge for water service is as follows:
Residential Customer Class
Cubic Feet Rate
First 600 or less cubic feet of water used $2.12
per month, per 100 cubic feet
For the next 1,200 cubic feet of water used $2.97
per month, per 100 cubic feet
For the next 1,200 cubic feet of water used $3.79
per month, per 100 cubic feet
For all in excess of 3,000 cubic feet of $4.56
water used per month, per 100 cubic feet
Commercial Customer Class
Cubic Feet Rate
All usage of water used per month, per 100 cubic feet $2.54
Industrial Customer Class
Cubic Feet Rate
All usage of water used per month, per 100 cubic feet $2.50
Super User Customer Class
Cubic Feet Rate
All usage of water used per month, per 100 cubic feet $2.48
Irrigation Meters
Cubic Feet Rate
First 5,000 or less cubic feet of water used $2.99
per month, per 100 cubic feet
Next 5,000 cubic feet of water used $3.40
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per month, per 100 cubic feet
For all in excess of 10,000 cubic feet of $4.25
water used per month, per 100 cubic feet
Gas Well Drillers
Cubic Feet Rate
All usage of water used per month, per 100 cubic feet $5.85
per month
The service charges set out in the foregoing schedules are based upon the
amount of water used as measured by meters.
SECTION 2.
That the monthly wastewater rates as described in Section 35-56(c)(1) and (c)(2) of
Chapter 35 of the Code of the City of Fort Worth (1986), as amended, is hereby amended
to read as follows:
(1) Monthly Service Charge for Sewerage Service Only
Meter Size (inches) Monthly charge
5/8 X 3/4 $6.50
3/4 X 3/4 $6.80
1 $10.80
1-1/2 $18.75
2 $28.30
3 $72.15
4 $122.35
6 $257.80
8 $449.00
10 $672.15
12 $840.19
(2) A monthly volume charge shall also be charged to residential customers in the
amount of three dollars and ninety-four cents ($3.94) per one hundred (100)
cubic feet of water used,and to nonresidential/non-monitored customers in the
amount of four dollars and fourteen cents ($4.14)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 individual customer's average monthly water use during the preceding
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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 the nonresidential/non-monitored customers will be
based on total water use as measured by appropriate meters, with the provision
that if a customer can prove,to the satisfaction of the director,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 3.
That the monthly volume rates for the monitored class as described in Section 35-56(d) of
Chapter 35 of the Code of the City of Fort Worth (1986), as amended, is hereby amended
to read as follows:
Volume charge, per 100 cubic feet $2.57
BOD strength charge, per pound of BOD $0.2750
Suspended solids strength charge
per pound of suspended solids $0.1816
Dissolved solids strength charge, per pound of
dissolved solids (applicable to gas well drillers) $0.0420
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's 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 that are subject to 40 CFR, Part 403, General Pretreatment
Regulations.
This schedule shall replace all other charges previously made for industrial
waste strength.
SECTION 4.
This ordinance shall be cumulative of all provisions of ordinances and of the Code of the
City of Fort Worth, Texas (2015), as amended, except where the provisions of this
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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 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 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.
This ordinance shall take effect on January 1, 2018.
APPROVED AS TO FORM AND LEGALITY: ATTEST
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ChrisFa R. Lopez-Re nolds ary J. K e
Sr. Assistant City Attorney City Secretary
ADOPTED: September 12, 2017
Ordinance 22891-09-2017
City of Fort Worth, Texas
Mayor and Council Communication
COUNCIL ACTION: Approved on 9/12/2017 - Ordinance No..22891-09-2817
DATE: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 REFERENCE NO.: C-28378
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SUBJECT:
Adopt Ordinance Revising Retail Water and Wastewater Rates and Charges and Amending Sections 35-
56(b), (c) and (d), Article III - Charges, of Chapter 35 -Water and Sewers of the City Code, Effective
January 1, 2018 (ALL COUNCIL DISTRICTS)
RECOMMENDATION:
It is recommended that the City Council adopt the attached ordinance revising retail water and wastewater
rates and charges and amending Sections 35-56(b), (c) and (d), Article III - Charges, of Chapter 35 -
Water and Sewers of the City Code, effective January 1, 2018.
DISCUSSION:
Each year the Water Department Staff conducts cost of service studies to establish annual operating
revenue requirements for retail water and wastewater services. As part of the cost of service studies, Staff
prepares the budget for the ensuing fiscal year and determines the cost responsibility and revenue
requirements to recover the costs of providing service to each of the six water and three wastewater
customer classes. Staff also reviews volume usage by class and makes adjustments based on both recent
and long-term trends. This process provides cost of service rates.
The resulting revenue requirements and recommended rates are shared with the Water and Wastewater
Retail Rate Structure Stakeholder Group which provides input concerning the City's fair and equitable cost
allocation among the retail classes. The Stakeholder Group is made up of representatives of the
Residential, Commercial, Industrial, Super User and Irrigation classes. Staff conducted four meetings with
the Stakeholder Group to receive input and feedback on topics including fixed versus variable revenue
recovery for the water and wastewater systems and full cost of service revenue recovery for all retail
classes.
The 2018 cost of service studies identified a need for an increase in retail revenue requirements of 3.46
percent for the water system and 3.04 percent for the wastewater system. The recommended water and
sewer rates include continuation of the phased implementation of increased cost recovery from fixed
service charges to improve revenue recovery stability for both the water and wastewater systems. The
primary drivers of the system revenue requirement increases are additional pay-go cash financing and
debt service to support the City Council-adopted Capital Improvement Plan and improve debt service
coverage ratios; increased vehicle and equipment purchases to address the department's aging fleet,
personnel costs; and increased transfers to the General Fund for street rental, PILOT and administrative
services received from General Fund departments.
To generate revenue to meet the revenue requirements of water customer classes, Staff recommends
increasing the monthly service charges to cost of service for all customer classes as part of the revenue
recovery stability plan. Based on the recommendations of the Stakeholder Group, Staff recommends
leaving the Residential tier 1 volume rate unchanged from the 2017 level to minimize the rate impact to
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low income customers, and slightly increasing Residential tiers 2, 3 and 4 volume rates to bring the class
closer to its cost of service. For the Commercial and Industrial classes, the cost of service for 2018
resulted in a reduction in the unit rate. Staff proposes an increase for the Super User class to phase it into
the Industrial class by 2019. Finally, Staff recommends an increase in the tier 1 volume rate for the
Irrigation class, with decreases in the tier 2 and tier 3 rates.
For sewer service, staff again recommends increases in the monthly service charges to cost of service as
part of the multi-year revenue recovery stability plan for all but the smallest two meter sizes, which are
primarily for residential use and would remain unchanged. Staff recommends increasing the volume rate
charges for the Residential class and the TSS strength charge for the Monitored class. Finally, Staff
proposes lowering volume rates for the Non-Monitored and Monitored classes, as well as the BOD
strength charge, to cost of service.
RETAIL WATER RATES
Monthly Service Charge
Meter Size Current Proposed
5/8" x 3/4" $10.75 $12.10
r 3/4" x 3/4" $11.001 $12.35
1 $21.101 $25.55
1 1/2"F- $39.15 $48.00
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2"F-
" $60.80 $75.00
3" $160.10F $198.40
4" $273.85 $339.80
6" $580.80 $721.45
8" $1,014.15 $1,260.20
10" $1,519.75 $1,888.75
Volume Rates
Customer Per 100 Cubic Feet Current Proposed
Residential First 600 CF $2.12 $2.12
600 to 1,800 CF F $2.93 F $2.97
1,800 to 3,000 CF $3.69 F $3.79
Over 3,000 CF F $4.44 F $4.56
Commercial All Usage $2.67 $2.54
Industrial JAII Usage $2.55 F $2.50
Super User All Usage F $2.38 1 $2.48
Irrigation 0 to 5,000 CF F $2.96 F $2.99
5,000 to 10,000 CF $3.56 $3.40
Over 10,000 CF $4.44 $4.25
Gas Wells All Usage $5.85 $5.85
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RETAIL WASTEWATER RATES
Monthly Service Charge
Meter Size Current Proposed
5/8" x 3/4" $6.50 F $6.50
3/4" x 3/4" $6.80 F $6.80
1" $9.40 F $10.80
11/2" $16.20 F $18.75
2" $24.30 F $28.30
13" $61.50 F $72.15
4" $104.10 $122.35
6" $219.05 $257.80
8" $381.35 $449.00
10" $570.70 $672.15
12" $715.10 $840.19
Volume Rates
[Current Proposed
Residential Fvolume Charge (Per 100 Cubic Feet) Fs3.62 $3.94
Non-Monitored Group [Volume Charge(Per 100 Cubic Feet) $4.23 $4.14
Monitored Group Volume Charge (Per 100 Cubic Feet) F$2.7 $2.57
BOD Charge (Per Pound) $0.2929 F$0.2750
TSS Charge (Per Pound) $0.1558 $0.1816
ITDS Charge (Per Pound) for Gas Well Drillers $0.0420Fso.0420
This M&C does not request approval of a contract with a business entity.
FISCAL INFORMATION I CERTIFICATION:
The Director of Finance certifies that the Water Department is responsible for the collection and deposit of
funds due to the City.
FUND IDENTIFIERS (FIDs):
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CERTIFICATIONS:
Submitted for City Manager's Office by: Jay Chapa (5804)
Originating Department Head: Kara Shuror (8819)
Additional Information Contact: Skipper Shook (8402)
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