HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 23818-09-2019 ORDINANCE NO. 23818-09-2019
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 35-56 (a), (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(a) of Chapter 35 of the Code of the City of Fort Worth (2015), as
amended, is hereby amended to delete the term Super User Customer Class in its entirety.
SECTION 2.
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 $2.19
per month, per 100 cubic feet
For the next 1,200 cubic feet of water used $3.07
per month,per 100 cubic feet
For the next 1,200 cubic feet of water used $3.92
per month, per 100 cubic feet
For all in excess of 3,000 cubic feet of $4.73
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 $2.69
Industrial Customer Class
Cubic Feet Rate
All usage of water used per month, per 100 cubic feet $2.61
Irrigation Meters
Cubic Feet Rate
First 10,000 or less cubic feet of water used $3.01
per month, per 100 cubic feet
For all in excess of 10,000 cubic feet of $3.90
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 3.
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 $6.85
3/4 X 3/4 $7.15
1 $12.60
1-1/2 $22.25
2 $33.75
3 $86.65
4 $147.20
6 $310.60
8 $541.30
10 $810.40
12 $1,013.00
(2) A monthly volume charge shall also be charged to residential customers in
the amount of four dollars and seventeen cents ($4.17)per one hundred (100)
cubic feet of water used, and to nonresidential/non-monitored customers in
the amount of four dollars and six cents ($4.06)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
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 4.
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 $2.36
BOD strength charge, per pound of BOD $0.2738
Suspended solids strength charge
per pound of suspended solids $0.1841
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 5.
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
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 6.
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 7.
This ordinance shall take effect on January 1, 2020.
PPROVED AS TO FORM AND LEGALITY:
Lchrista.R. Lopez- e J. K r
Sr. Assistant City City Secreta
ADOPTED: September 10, 2019
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City of Fort Worth, Texas
Mayor and Council Communication
DATE: 09/10/19 M&C FILE NUMBER: M&C 19-0124
LOG NAME: 60RETAIL WATER AND WASTEWATER RATES 2020
SUBJECT
Adopt Ordinance Revising Retail Water and Wastewater Rates and Charges and Amending Sections 35-56(a)(b),(c)and(d),Article III-Charges,
of Chapter 35-Water and Sewers of the City Code,Effective January 1,2020(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(a)(b),(c)and(d),Article III-Charges,of Chapter 35-Water and Sewers of the City Code,effective January 1,2020.
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 wastewater system,integration of the Super
User class into the Industrial class,and full cost of service revenue recovery for all retail classes.
The 2020 cost of service studies identified a need for an increase in retail revenue requirements of 1.98 percent for the water system and 2.93
percent for the wastewater system.The FY2020 increase is driven primarily by the Water Department's capital improvement plan,which requires
increases to both debt service and pay-go cash financing.Other major increases include implementation of the new City Council-approved
pension reform plan and the Utility Street Cut policy.
For water service,staff does not recommend any changes to the water monthly service charges.The recommended water volume rates include
changes to the structure of two of the customer classes—Super User and Irrigation. A review of water usage trends since 2006 shows that the
Super User class behaves very similarly to the Industrial class.The planned integration of the Super User class back into the Industrial class has
been phased in over a five-year period and the class is being eliminated by this ordinance adoption.Likewise,the first and second tiers of the
Irrigation Class are being merged after review of the usage trends of that class after untying it from the upper tiers of the Residential customer
class in 2017.
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 to increase cost recovery from fixed service charges.Staff recommends adjusting all volume rate charges to the cost of service for all
customer classes,which results in an increase for the Residential class and the TSS strength charge for the Monitored class,and a decrease for
the Non-Monitored and Monitored classes,as well as the BOD strength charge.
RETAIL WATER RATES
Meter Size Current IlProposed
5/8"x 3/4" $12.10 $12.10
3/4"x 3/4" $12.35 $12.35 _
ill $25.55 $25.55
1 1/2" $48.00 $48.00
2" $75.00 $75.00
3" $198.40 $198.40 _
4' $339.80 $339.80
6" 11$721.45 $721.45
8" 11$1,260.20 �$1,260.20
10" 71$1,888.75 $1,888.75
Water Volume Rates:
Customer Per 100 Cubic Feet Current Proposed
Residential First 600CF $2.12 $2.19
---7600 to 1,800 CF $2.97 $3.07
1,800 to 3,000 CF $3.79 $3.92
Over 3,000 CF $4.56 1$4.73
Commercial All Usage $2.54 11$2.69
Industrial I All Usage $2.50 $2.61
Super User All Usage $2.48 N/A
Irrigation 0 to 5,000 CF $2.99 $3.01
5,000 to 10,000 CF $3.40 1$3.01 11
3Over 10,000 CF $4.25 $3.90
Gas Wells All Usage $5.85 1$5.85
RETAIL WASTEWATER RATES
Meter Size Current Proposed
5/8"x 3/4" $6.50 $6.85
3/4"x 3/4" $6.80 $7.15
11. $10.80 $12.60
11/2" $18.75 $22.25
2" $28.30 11$33.75
3" 1$72.15 1$86.65
4" 11$122.35 $147.20
6" $257.80 $310.60
8" $449.00 $541.30
10" $672.15 1$810.40
12" $840.19 1$1,013.00
Residential Current Proposed
Volume Charge(per 100 Cubic Feet) [$-3-.9-47$4.17
Non-Monitored Current Proposed
Volume Charge(per 100 Cubic Feet) $4.14 $4.06
Monitored Group Current Proposed
Volume Charge(per 100 Cubic Feet) 1$2.57 1$2.36
BOD Charge(per Pound) $0.2750 $0.2738
TSS Charge(per Pound) $0.1816 $0.1841
TDS Charge(per Pound)for Gas Well Drillers $0.0420 $0.0420
A Form 1295 is not required for this contract because:This M&C does not request approval of a contract with a business entity.
FISCAL INFORMATION/CERTIFICATION:
The Director of Finance certifies that the Water Department is responsible for the collection and deposit of funds due to the City.
Submitted for City Manager's Office by: Dana Burghdoff 8018
Originating Business Unit Head: Chris Harder 5020
Additional Information Contact: Andy McCartney 8567