HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 17801-09-2007ORDINANCE NO. 17801-09-2007
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTIONS 35-56(b), 35-56(c), and 35-
56(d) OF CHAPTER 35 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF FORT
WORTH (1986), AS AMENDED, BY REVISING AND ADDING
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; AND
PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT WORTH:
SECTION 1.
That Section 35-56(b) of Chapter 35 of the Code of the City of Fort Worth (1986), as
amended, is hereby amended to be and read as follow:
"(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 class, 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 (standard meter) $6.00
1 $8.50
1-1/2 $15.50
2 $23.00
3 $47.50
4 $83.50
6 $182.00
8 $310.00
10 $490.00
The monthly volume charge for water service is as follows:
Residential Customer Class
Cubic Feet Rate
First 800 or less cubic feet of water used $1.80
per month, per 100 cubic feet
For the next 1,200 cubic feet of water used $2.51
per month, per 100 cubic feet
For the next 1,000 cubic feet of water used $3.09
per month, per 100 cubic feet
For all in excess of 3,000 cubic feet of $3.71
water used per month, per 100 cubic feet
Commercial Customer Class
Cubic Feet Rate
A11 usage of water used per month, per 100 cubic feet $2.01
Industrial Customer Class
Cubic Feet Rate
All usage of water used per month, per 100 cubic feet $1.70
Sutter User Customer Class
Cubic Feet Rate
All usage of water used per month, per 100 cubic feet $1.55
Irrigation Meters
Cubic Feet Rate
First 10,000 or less cubic feet of water used $2.47
per month, per 100 cubic feet
For all in excess of 10,000 cubic feet of
water used per month, per 100 cubic feet
Gas Well Drillers
Cubic Feet
First 10,000 or less cubic feet of water used
per month, per 100 cubic feet
For all in excess of 10,000 cubic feet of
water used per month, per 100 cubic feet
$2.91
Rate
$2.47
$2.91
The service charges set out in the foregoing schedules are based upon the
amount of water used as measured by meters.'
SECTION 2.
That Section 35-56(c) of Chapter 35 of the Code of the City of Fort Worth (1986),
as amended, is hereby amended to be and read as follow:
"(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 residential
customers in the amount of two dollars and sixty-four cents ($2.64) per
one hundred (100) cubic feet of water used, and to nonresidential/non-
monitored customers in the amount of three dollars and sixteen cents
($3.16) 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, but
in no event shall the volume used to compute this monthly chaxge for a
single family residential unit or a duplex unit 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 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 nonresidentiaUnon-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 Section 35-56(d) of Chapter 35 of the Code of the City of Fort Worth (1986),
as amended, is hereby amended to be and read as follows:
"(d) The director shall establish a monitored group class, consisting of
those customers whose wastewater 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 $2.34
BOD strength charge, per pound of BOD $0.2208
Suspended solids strength charge
per pound of suspended solids $0.1010
Dissolved solids strength charge, per
Pound of dissolved solids (applicable
To gas well drillers) $0.042
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 deternvne the strength of the wastewater produced and,
when appropriate, to inspect pretreatment facilities, to achninister
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 (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 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, 2008.
APPROVED AS TO FORM AND LEGALITY:
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Assistant ity Attorney
ADOPTED: September 25, 2007
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Mayor and Council Communication
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COUNCIL ACTION: Approved on 9/25/2007 -Ord. # 17801-09-2007
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DATE: Tuesday, September 25, 2007
LOG NAME: 60RATES 2008 REFERENCE NO.: G-15890
SUBJECT:
Adopt Ordinance Revising Retail Water and Wastewater Rates for Usage Amending Chapter 35
"Water and Sewer," Article III "Changes" Section 35-56 (b), (c), and (d) Effective January 1, 2008
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RECOMMENDATION:
It is recommended that the City Council adopt the attached ordinance, which revises retail water and
wastewater rates and provides an effective date of billing the new rates for usage on or after January 1,
2008.
DISCUSSION:
Water Department staff conducted cost of service studies to establish proposed fiscal year 2008 retail
water and wastewater rates for the Fort Worth Water Department. To assist with decisions about
allocation of costs on a "fair" and "equitable" basis to each customer class, an Informal Retail Customer
Advisory Committee was formed consisting of 9 members. Membership included representatives from
neighborhood associations, commercial customers and large volume industrial customers.
A total of six meetings were conducted with the Committee, whose responsibilities include making
recommendations to Fort Worth Water Department staff concerning the equity of the rate structure. Based
on the Committee's guidance, staff is recommending rates designed to recover the costs of providing water
and wastewater service to retail customers. The retail portion of the recommended revenue requirements
resulted in an increase of 3.78 percent for water and 8.86 percent for wastewater.
Staff recommended and the Committee concurred with initiating conservation tiers in the Residential and
Irrigation customer classes to encourage water conservation by high volume users and to help fund the
conservation program. The fourth Residential Tier will apply to all usage exceeding 3,000 cubic feet
(cf). For the Irrigation customer class a second tier will be added for usage exceeding 10,000 cf.
The Water Department proposes the following water and wastewater rates:
RETAIL WATER RATES
Meter Size (inches)
5/8
1
1-1 /2
2
3
4
6
Current Meter Service Charge
$5.50
$8.00
$14.50
$22.00
$47.00
$82.00
$180.00
Proposed Meter Service Charge
$6.00
$8.50
$15.50
$23.00
$47.50
$83.50
$182.00
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10
Residential
Volume Charge (per 100 cf -First 800 cf)
Volume Charge (per 100 cf -Next 1,200 cf)
Volume Charge (per 100 cf -Over 3,000 cf)
Volume Charge (per 100 cf -First 800 cf)
Volume Charge (per 100 cf -Next 1,200 cf)
Volume Charge (per 100 cf-Next 1,000 cf)
Volume Charge (per 100 cf -Over 3,000 cf)
Commercial
Volume Charge (per 100 cf -All)
Industrial
Volume Charge (per 100 cf -All)
Super User
Volume Charge (per 100 cf -All)
Irrigation
Volume Charge (per 100 cf-First 10,000 cf)
Volume Charge (per 100 cf -Over 10,000 cf)
Gas Well Drillers (same as irrigation)
Volume Charge (per 100 cf -First 10,000 cf)
Volume Charge (per 100 cf -Over 10,000 cf)
RETAIL WASTEWATER RATES
Residential
Service Charge per Month
Volume Charge (per 100 cf)
Non Residential/Non/Monitored
Service Charge per Month
Volume Charge (per 100 cf)
Monitored Group
Service Charge per Month
Volume Charge (per 100 cf)
BOD Charge (per pound)
TSS Charge (per pound)
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$310.00 $310.00
$485.00 $490.00
Current Proposed
$1.77 - -
$2.44 - -
$3.00 - -
-- $1.80
- - $2.51
- - $3.09
- - $3.71
Current Proposed
$1.97 $2.01
Current Proposed
$1.70 $1.70
Current Proposed
$1.55 $1.55
Current Proposed
$2.33 $2.47
$2.33 $2.91
Current Proposed
$2.33 $2.47
$2.33 $2.91
Current Proposed
$4.50 $4.50
$2.51 $2.64
Current Proposed
$4.50 $4.50
$2.77 $3.16
Current Proposed
$4.50 $4.50
$2.05 $2.34
$0.19 $0.22
$0.10 $0.10
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TDS Charge (per pound) for Gas Well Drillers
$0.04 $0.04
FISCAL INFORMATION/CERTIFICATION:
The Finance Director certifies that the Customer Service Division of the Water Department is responsible
for billing and collection of water and wastewater service revenues.
TO Fund/Account/Centers FROM Fund/Account/Centers
PE45 493012 0601000 0.00
PE45 493022 0701000 0.00
Submitted for City Manager's Office bk Marc A. Ott (8476)
Originating Department Head: S. Frank Crumb (8207)
Additional Information Contact: Skipper Shook (8402)
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