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Home My WebLink AboutOrdinance 12113ORDINANCE NO ~~ 1 /`3 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 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 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 customer 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 " RATES FOR WATER SERVICE Monthly Service Charge for Water Meter size (inches) Monthly Charge 5/8 3/4 $3 25 1 $5 45 1 1/2 $10 80 2 $17 30 3 $32 50 4 $54 20 6 $108 35 8 $173 35 10 $249 20 The monthly volume charge for water service is as follows Residential Customer Class Cubic Feet Rates First 4,000 or less cubic feet of water used per month per 100 cf $1 36 For all in excess of 4,000 cubic feet of water used per month per 100 cf Commercial Customer Class Cubic Feet First 250,000 cf Over 250,000 cf Industrial Customer Class Cubic Feet First 250,000 cf Over 250,000 cf Irrigation Meters Cubic Feet All usage of water per month per 100 cf RAW WATER SERVICE All use per month All use per month $1 53 Rates $1 20 per 100 cf $0 97 per 100 cf Rates $1 20 per 100 cf $0 97 per 100 cf Rates $1 37 $0 6031 per 1, 000 gallons inside Tarrant County Water Control and Improvement District No 1 $0 6810 per 1,000 gallons outside Tarrant County Water Control and Improvement District No 1 The service charges set out in the foregoing schedule 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 BOD 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 one dollar and thirty-two cents ($1 32) per one hundred (100) cubic feet of water used, and to nonresidential/non monitored customers in the amount of one dollar and thirty-two cents ($1 32) 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 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/nonmonitored 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 Volume charge, per 100 cubic feet BOD strength charge, per pound of BOD Suspended solids strength charge per pound of suspended solids Monitoring and pretreatment charge $4 50 $0 901 $0 130 $0 220 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 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 and be in full force and effect for usage from and after October 1, 1995, and it is so ordained APPROVED AS TO FORM AND LEGALITY ~v n,,~,~City Attiiorn ~"~", Date U L 3 /9 ~ ADOPTED ~~`~ ~ `~~ EFFECTIVE ~O ~ ~~ City of Fort Worth, Texas Mayor~and Council Communication NUMBER NAME PAG33 08/29/95 G-11210 60RETAIL 1 of 2 sUBJECa ORDINANCE APPROVING PROPOSED RETAIL WATER AND WASTEWATER RATE INCREASE RECOMMENDATION It is recommended that the City Council approve the attached ordinance which revises water and wastewater rates and provides that the new rates will be effective for flows occurring on or after October 1, 1995 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 eight members Membership included representatives from neighborhood associations, commercial customers, large volume water users and industrial customers and environmental/watchdog groups A total of 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 78%, resulting from combined increases of 6 33% for wastewater and 07% for water 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 Commercial Rates First 250,000 cf Over 250,000 cf 5 Industrial Rates First 250,000 cf Over 250,000 cf Current 51 20 per 100 cf 0 96 per 100 cf S 1 20 per 100 cf 0 96 per 100 cf Proposed S 1 20 per 100 cf 0 97 per 100 cf S 1 20 per 100 cf 0 97 per 100 cf City of Fort Worth, Texas Mayor and Council Communication DATE 08/29/95 REFERENCE NUMBER G-11210 LOG NAME 60RETAIL PAGE 2 of 2 SUBJECT ORDINANCE APPROVING PROPOSED RETAIL WAT ER AND WASTEWATER RATE INCREASE RETAIL WASTEWATER RATES Residential Current Proposed Volume charge (per 100 cf) S 1 24 S 1 32 Service Charge (per month) S4 50 S4 50 Non Residential/Non-Monitored Current Proposed Volume charge (per 100 cf) S 1 24 S 1 32 Service Charge (per month) $4 50 $4 50 Monitored Group Current Proposed Monthly Service Charge S4 50 54 50 Volume Charge-100cf SO 824 SO 901 BOD charge/pound SO 115 SO 130 TSS chargelpound SO 198 SO 220 FISCAL INFORMATION/CERTIFICATION The Director of Fiscal Services cert ifies 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 MG a City Manager's Submitted for FUND ACCOUNT CENTER AMOUNT CITY SECRETARY _ Office by: (to) ' PF.45 493012 0601000 ARP~~~ 7 000 ~a Richard Sawey 8207 PF.45 493022 01 0 ~~ ~ . _ rt i Originating Department Head: ~ ~~ ~~~~ t~ Richard Sawey 8207 (from) A(~G ~~ ~~q5' ~d l C~ cc,~, -s~ For Additional Information Cit}r SeC2~ttt~y pi '~~ ~ Contact: ? City of I'Ort Waxtlt, ~'@zt€1@ Richard Sawey 8207 Adopted Ord~r~ance Igo. /~-"'~3