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Home My WebLink AboutOrdinance 12669ORDINANCE NO ~~ ~ ~ 9 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTIONS 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(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 BOD and two hundred forty (240) mg/1 suspended solids) and where such customer is located within the crty• RATES FOR SEWERAGE SERVICE ONLY (1) A monthly service charge shall be charged to all customers m 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 one dollar and forty cents ($1 40) per one hundred (100) cubic feet of water used, and to nonresidential/non monitored customers m the amount of one dollar and forty cents ($1 40) per one hundred (100) cubic feet of water used, or waste water 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 m no event shall the volume used to compute this monthly charge for a single family residential unit or a duplex umt 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 nonresidential/nonmomtored 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 2. That Section 35-56(d) of Chapter 35 of the Code of the Crty 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 $1 09 BOD strength charge, per pound of BOD $0 147 Suspended solids strength charge per pound of suspended solids $0.226 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 which are subject to 40 CFR, Part 403, General Pretreatment Regulations. "This schedule shall replace all other charges previously made for industrial waste strength." SECTION 3. This ordinance shall be cumulative of all provisions of ordinances and of the Code of the Crty of Fort Worth, Texas (1986), as amended, except where the provisions of this ordinance are m 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 4. It is hereby declared to be the intention of the Crty 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 ~urisdichon, 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 m this ordinance of any such usconstrtutional phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph or section. SECTION 5. This ordinance shall take effect and be in full force and effect for usage from and after October 1, 1996, and rt is so ordained. APPROVED AS TO FORM AND LEGALITY ~~ „~rty A orney // Date " /Z /9L ADOPTED ~ _ /!~' 9J EFFECTIVE. I ~ ' J - 9Gi City of Fort Worth Texas Mayor and Council Communication DATE REFERENCE NUMBER LOG NAME PAGE 09/10/96 G-11599 60RETAIL 1 of 2 SUBJECT PROPOSED RETAIL WASTEWATER RATE INCREASE RECOMMENDATION It is recommended that the City Council approve the attached ordinance which revises retail wastewater rates and provides an effective date of billing the new rates on or after October 1, 1996 DISCUSSION A retail cost of service study was conducted for water and wastewater rates To assist with decisions about allocating costs on a "fair" and "equitable" basis to each customer class, a Citizens Advisory Committee was formed consisting of twelve members Membership included representatives from neighborhood associations, commercial customers, large volume water users and industrial customers and environmental/watchdog groups Four meetings were conducted with the Committee members The responsibilities of the Committee were to make recommendations to City staff concerning the equity of the rate structure only, not the amount of any rate increase that might be enacted later Based on the Committee's recommendation., aretail cost of service study identified a rate structure to recover the costs of providing water and wastewater service to our customers The overall retail increase recommended is 2 65%, resulting in an increase of 6 56% for wastewater rate and 0% for water rates The following water and wastewater rates are proposed by the Water Department RETAIL WATER RATES 1 No change to monthly service charges based on meter size 2 No change to residential water rates 3 No change to irrigation rates 4 No change to commercial and industrial rates RETAIL WASTEWATER RATES Residential Volume charge (per 100 cf) Service Charge (per month) Current Prooosed $1 32 S1 40 $4 50 S4 50 Printed on Recyded Paper City of Fort Worth, Texas Mayor and Council Communication DATE REFERENCE NUMBER LOG NAME PAGE 09/10/96 G-11599 60RETAIL 2 of 2 svsJECT PROPOSED RETAIL WASTEWATER RATE INCREASE Non Residential/Non-Monitored Current Proposed Volume charge (per 100cf) 51 32 $1 40 Service Charge (per month) 54 50 $4 50 Monitored Group Current Proposed Monthly Service Charge S4 50 $4 50 Volume Charge-100cf $0 901 S1 090 BOD charge/pound $0 130 50 147 TSS charge/pound SO 220 $0 226 November bills will show the increase, as the new rates shall be implemented for a given cycle when all consumption for the billing period occurs after the effective date of October 1, 1996 FISCAL INFORMATION/CERTIFICATION The Director of Fiscal Services certifies that the adoption of this rate schedule will require no expenditure of City funds The Customer Service Division of the Water Department is responsible for all billing and collection of water and wastewater revenues due to the City by adoption of this ordinance MGf Submitted for City Manager's FUND ACCOUNT CENTER AMOUNT CITY SECRETARY Office by: (to) PFAS 439012 0701000 Mike Groomer 6140 C~ 1 ~~, Originating Department Head: SEP ~.U 'i996 Lee Bradley, Jr ~ ~ ' 8207 (from) ~~~ ~~ ~ ~ For Additional Information City of Port ~e Contact: Lee Bradley, 7r 8207 Printed on Re~yded Paper A~(~!~~tiR7 "~ t~Eid~ ~~~