HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 4536 ORDINANCE NO, 4536
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING § 51 .137 OF THE CODE OF
FAYETTEVILLE, TO ADJUST SEWER RATES.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS:
Section 1 . That § 51 .137 of the Code of Fayetteville is hereby repealed, and
Exhibit " A" attached hereto and made a part hereof, is inserted in its stead.
,tYr F p yEr�: PASSED and APPROVED this 30th day of December, 2003.
. ;� '•• r� APPROVED:
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DAN GOODY, Mayor
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By: QI.RI� l� IWtA.tN '
SONDRA SMITH, City Clerk
• EXHIBIT A
51 .137 Monthly Sewer Rates
(A)Monthly sewer rates. All monthly sewer charges shall be calculated from the
customer's monthly water usage. The following monthly rates are hereby fixed as
rates to be charged for sewer services:
( 1 ) Monthly sewer quantity charge:
Table E-1
Monthly Sewer Quantity Charge - Usage Rates Per 1 ,000 Gallons
Beginning February 9, 2004
(*Across-the-Board Percentage; **Cost of Service Methodology)
Residential* $ 2.61
Commercial/Industrial2.04
Outside city limits** 6.03
Elkins** 5.24
Table E-2
Monthly Sewer Quantity Charge - Usage Rates Per 1 ,000 Gallons
After December 31, 2004
Residential* $ 2.84
CommerciaVIndustrial* 2.22
Outside city limits** 6.57
Elkins** 5.71
Table E-3
Monthly Sewer Quantity Charge - Usage Rates Per 1 ,000 Gallons
After December 31, 2005
Residential* $ 3. 10
Commercial/Industrial* 2.42
Outside city limits** 7. 16
Elkins** 6.22
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EXHIBIT A
( 1 ) Monthly service charge:
Table F-1 Monthly Sewer Service Charge Table F-2 Monthly Sewer Service Charge
Beginning February 9, 2004 After December 31, 2004
Meter Size Inside City Outside Cityt Meter Size Inside City Outside Cityt
5/8 inch $ 8.72 $ 8.72 5/8 inch $ 9.50 $ 9.50
3/4 inch 10.08 11 .87 3/4 inch 10.99 12.94
1 inch 11 .34 16.28 1 inch 12.36 17.75
1 '/: inch 15.85 28.90 1 %: inch 17.27 31 .50
2inch 21 . 10 41 .51 2 inch 23.00 45.25
3 inch 46.31 97.02 3 inch 50.77 105.75
4 inch 77.51 160.09 4 inch 84.49 174.50
6 inch 149.26 317.78 1 6 inch 163.64 346.38
8 inch 232.26 475.47 1 8 inch 253. 16 518.26
Table F-3 Monthly Sewer Service Charge
After December 31, 2005
Meter Size Inside City Outside Cityt
5/8 inch $ 10.36 $ 10.35
3/4 inch 11 .98 14. 10
1 inch 13.47 19.35
1 '/a inch 21 .99 34.33
2 inch 31 .44 49.32
3 inch 73.01 115.27
4 inch 120.26 190.21
6 inch 238.37 377.56
8 inch 356.48 564.90
tCost of Service Methodology required by contract.
(B) Determination of charge for domestic customers. In the case of domestic customers,
the average monthly water consumption for the preceding months of December,
January, and February shall be computed separately for each customer, and a uniform
monthly charge for each customer shall be determined by applying the schedule of
rates set out in subsection (A) of this section to such average monthly water
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• EXHIBIT A •
consumption. In the case of a domestic user for whom a uniform monthly charge has
been established and who moves to a new location the same uniform monthly charge
shall apply at the new location. In the case of new domestic users, the schedule of
rates shall be applied to monthly water usage until an average monthly water
consumption has been established. This methodology shall not apply to multi-family
structures containing five (5) or more units in a contiguous building.
(C) Determination of charge for commercial and industrial customers. In the case of
commercial and industrial customers the monthly sewer charge shall be determined
by applying the schedule of rates prescribed in subsection (A) of this section to the
monthly water usage of such customers. In the event that a commercial or industrial
customer discharging waste into the city's sanitary sewer system produces evidence
to the water and sewer superintendent demonstrating that a substantial portion of the
total amount of water from all sources used for all purposes does not reach the
sanitary sewer which is in excess of the factors used in establishing the rates in
subsection (A) of this section, an estimated percentage of total water consumption to
be used in computing charges may be established by the water and sewer
superintendent. The factors used in establishing said rates are on file in the office of
the water and sewer superintendent and are incorporated herein by reference thereto.
Any rate so adjusted by the water and sewer superintendent shall be effective for a
12-month period beginning with the billing for the month when rates adjudged
hereby go into effect.
(D) Extra Strength Surcharge. For all commercial and industrial customers whose
wastewater discharge is greater than 300 mg/1 of BODS and/or TSS, the City shall
levy an Extra Strength Surcharge for each parameter in accordance with the
following unit charges:
Beginning After After
February 9, 2004 December 31, 2004 December 31, 2005
( 1 ) Extra Strength BODS --- $0.2246/lb. 0.2449/lb. 0.2669/lb.
(2) Extra Strength TSS ----- $0. 1123/lb. 0. 1224/lb. 0. 1334/lb.
Extra Strength Surcharges shall be billed monthly and shall be computed on the basis
of water meter reading (wastewater discharge volume).
(E) Definitions.
For the purpose of this division the following definitions shall apply unless the
context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning:
( 1 ) Commercial, industrial customer or user. All retail stores, restaurants, office
buildings, laundries, and other private business and service establishments
which contributes wastewater to the city's wastewater treatment plant. It shall
include any nongovernmental, nonresidential user of publicly owned
treatment works which is identified in the Standard Industrial Classification
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• EXHIBIT A •
Manual, 1972, Office of Management and Budget, as amended and
supplemented, under the following divisions; Division A-Agriculture,
Forestry, and Fishing; Division B-Mining; Division D-Manufacturing;
Division E-Transportation, Communications, Electric, Gas and Sanitary; and
Division I-Services. It also includes social, charitable, religious, and
educational activities such as schools, churches, hospitals, nursing homes,
penal institutions and similar institutional users; legislative, judicial,
administrative, and regulatory activities of federal, state and local
governments.
(2) Domestic customer or user. Any contributor of wastewater to the city's
treatment works whose lot, parcel, or real estate, or building is used for
domestic dwelling purposes only.
(3) Infiltration/inflow. The total quantity of water other than wastewater from
both infiltration and inflow without distinguishing the source from defective
pipes, pipe joints, connections, manholes, roofleaders, cellar drains, yard
drains, area drains, foundation drains, drains from springs and swampy area,
cross connections, catch basins, cooling towers, storm waters, surface runoffs,
street wash water, or drainage.
(4) Municipality. A city, town, county, parish, district, association, or other
public body (including an inter-municipal agency of two or more of the
foregoing entities) created under state law having jurisdiction over disposal of
sewage, industrial waste or other waste. The definition includes special
districts such as water, sewer, sanitary, utility, drainage, transport, or disposal
of liquid waste of the general public in a particular geographic area.
(5) Operation and maintenance. Those functions that result in expenditures
during the useful life of the treatment works for materials, labor, utilities, and
other items which are necessary for managing and which such works were
designed and constructed. The term "operation and maintenance" includes
replacement.
(6) Replacement. Expenditures for obtaining and installing equipment,
accessories, or appurtenances which are necessary during the useful life of the
treatment works to maintain the capacity and performance for which such
works were designed and constructed.
(7) Treatment works. Any devices and systems for the storage, treatment,
recycling, and reclamation of municipal sewage, domestic sewage, or liquid
industrial wastes. These include intercepting sewers, outfall sewers, sewage
collection systems, pumping, power, and other equipment and their
appurtenances; extensions improvement; remodeling, additions, and
alterations thereof; elements essential to provide a reliable recycled supply
such as standby treatment units and clear well facilities; and any works,
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• EXHIBIT A •
including site acquisition of the land that will be an integral part of the
treatment process or is used for ultimate disposal of residues resulting from
such treatment (including land for composting sludge, temporary storage of
such compost, and land used for the storage of treated wastewater in land
treatment systems before land application); or any other method or system for
preventing, abating, reducing, storing, treating, separating, or disposing of
municipal waste or industrial waste, including waste in combined storm water
and sanitary sewer systems.
(8) Useful life. The estimated period during which a treatment works will be
operated.
(9) User charge. That portion of the total wastewater service charge which is
levied in a proportional and adequate manner for the cost of operation,
maintenance and replacement of the wastewater treatment works.
( 10) Water meter. A water volume measuring and recording device, furnished
and installed by the water department of the city.
(F) Deposit of revenues; fund.
( 1 ) The revenues from charges collected by the city shall be deposited in a
separate non-lapsing fund known as the operation, maintenance, and
replacement fund.
(2) Fiscal year-end balances in the operation, maintenance and replacement fund
shall be used for no other purpose than those designated. Moneys which may
be transferred from other sources to meet temporary shortages in the
operations, maintenance, and replacement fund shall be returned to their
respective accounts upon appropriate adjustment of the user charge rates. The
user charge rates shall be adjusted so that the transferred moneys will be
returned to their respective accounts within six months of the fiscal year in
which moneys were borrowed.
(3) Application for review; adjustments to user.
(a) Any user who feels that the volume used to determine his bill is incorrect may
make written application to the Director of Water and Wastewater requesting
a review of his bill. The written request shall, where necessary, show actual
or estimated flows and/or strength of his wastewater, including how the
measurements were made.
(b) A review of the request shall be made by the Water and Wastewater Director
and if substantiated, the charges for that user shall be recomputed based on the
revised flow and/or strength characteristics. In no case, however, shall
allowances or adjustments be made for claims of sewage strengths less than
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• EXHIBIT A •
300 mg/l suspended solids and 300 mg/l of BODS.
(c) Any adjustments will be applicable to the next billing period.
(4) Annual review by city; revision of rates; notification of user.
(a) The city shall review the charges at least annually and revise the rates as
necessary to ensure that adequate revenues are generated to pay the cost of
operation, maintenance, and replacement, and that the system continues to
provide for the proportional distribution of operation, maintenance, and
replacement costs among users and user classes.
(b) The city shall notify each user at least annually, in conjunction with a regular
bill, of the rates being charged for operation, maintenance and replacement of
the treatment works.
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NAME OF FILE: Ordinance No. 4536
CROSS REFERENCE:
Item # Date Document
1 12/30/03 copy of special agenda
copy of tentative agenda for sp. mtg.
copy of Itr to Steve Tennant
copy of Cost of Service Methodology
draft ordinance
2 01/07/04 Affidavit of Publication
3 01/09/04 memo to Steve Davis
NOTES:
Final Agenda 14M4?0Id Jr� �37
Special City Council Meeting
Public Hearing S' .a ea-`e5
December 30, 2003
A special meeting of the Fayetteville City Council will be held on December 30, 2003 at 4:30
p.m. in Room 326 of the City Administration Building located at 113 West Mountain Street,
Fayetteville, Arkansas.
A. CONSENT:
B. OLD BUSINESS:
A Public Hearing concerning the adjustment of Sewer Rates
1 . Amend § 51.137 Monthly Sewer Rates: An ordinance amending § 51 . 137 of the
Code of Fayetteville, to adjust sewer rates.
This Ordinance was left on the first reading at the December 16, 2003 City Council
meeting.
C. NEW BUSINESS:
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Tentative Agenda
Special City Council Meeting
Public Hearing
December 30, 2003
A special meeting of the Fayetteville City Council will be held on December 30, 2003 at 4:30
p.m. in Room 326 of the City Administration Building located at 113 West Mountain Street,
Fayetteville, Arkansas.
A. CONSENT:
B. OLD BUSINESS :
A Public Hearing concerning the adjustment of Sewer Rates
} 1 . Amend § 51 . 137 Monthly Sewer Rates : An ordinance amending § 51 . 137 of the
Code of Fayetteville, to adjust sewer rates.
This Ordinance was left on the first reading at the December 16, 2003 City Council
meeting.
C. NEW BUSINESS:
FAYETT?MLLE wE
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THE CITY OF FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS
November 19, 2003
Mr. Steve Tennant, City Attorney
City of Farmington
P.O. Box 150
Farmington, AR 72730
Dear Steve,
As agreed, enclosed is the Cost of Service Methodology followed by Black and
Veatch for the City of Fayetteville Water and Sewer rate study.
Please let me know if you have any questions.
Sincerely,
Stephen Davis
Finance and Internal Services Director
cc: Don Marr, Fayetteville City Council
Shirley Lucas, Fayetteville City Council
Lioneld Jordan, Fayetteville City Council
Kyle Cook, Fayetteville City Council
Bob Davis, Fayetteville City Council
Robert Reynolds, Fayetteville City Council
Robert Rhoads, Fayetteville City Council
Brenda Thiel, Fayetteville City Council
113WESTMOUNTAIN 72701 479521-7700
FAX 479-575-9257
J
Fayetteville, Arkansas
Cost of Service Methodology
• Forecast number of accounts by class of customer based on historical growth trends and
planned changes.
• Determine usage per account by class of customer based on historical information,
recognizing climatological patterns.
• Forecast sales volumes by class of customer by application of usage per account to
forecast number of accounts.
• Distribute number of accounts by meter size and distribute sales volumes by volume
blocks based on analysis of bills rendered during a 12 month period.
• Forecast revenues under existing rates by application of existing rate schedule to
customer and sales volumes.
• Forecast revenues from miscellaneous sources such as interest, service initiation fees, late
payment penalties, etc.
• Forecast operation and maintenance expenses based on historical trends, budgets, and
known or anticipated changes in operations, recognizing inflationary allowances.
• Forecast routine annual capital additions and replacements based on historical trends and
budgets.
• Incorporate forecast revenues under existing rates and forecast revenue requirements into
a pro forma financing plan to determine the timing and magnitude of future revenue
increases and the timing and magnitude of future debt issues required to fund major
capital improvements.
• Verify that bond indenture requirements are met.
• Determine the cost of service to be met through sales revenues, recognizing
miscellaneous revenue sources and changes in funds on hand. Designate cost of service
elements as operating expense or capital cost, as applicable.
• Allocate cost of service to functional cost components. Water utility cost components
include base cost (meeting average load conditions), extra capacity cost (meeting
demands in excess of average) which are subdivided into maximum day and maximum
hour demand, meter and billing related cost, and fire protection cost. Maximum day and
maximum hour demands are based on historical system pumpage records. Sewer system
cost components include sanitary volume, infiltration/inflow, strength (biological oxygen
demand and suspended solids), and meter and billing related cost.
• Allocate net plant investment to functional cost components based on the function of the
facilities.
• Allocate depreciation expense to functional cost components based on allocation of net
plant investment.
• Allocate operation and maintenance expense to functional cost components based upon
the type of operating expense.
• Determine units of service for each customer class based upon their respective
requirements for each type of service.
• Determine unit cost of service for each functional cost component by dividing the total
cost of service for each cost component by the total units of service for each respective
cost component.
• Assign cost of service to each customer class by application of the unit cost of service for
each functional cost component to the units of service for each customer class.
• Under the utility basis of determination of revenue requirements, return on investment
(dollars) is equal to total cost of service less operation and maintenance expense less
annual depreciation. Return (dollars) to be recovered from outside City customers is
determined by application of the rate of return (6%) to the unit cost for net plant
investment for each functional cost component. The balance of the return (dollars) is
recovered from inside City customers.
• For the water utility, allocated cost of service is adjusted by reallocation of costs
associated with public fire protection to residential, commercial, and industrial customers
based on the respective cost of service of each customer class.
• Allocated (or adjusted) cost of service by customer class is compared to revenue under
existing rates to determine the indicated revenue increase required from each class of
customers.
• A schedule of proposed rates is designed to recover, as nearly as practical, the cost of
service from each customer class.
• The proposed rates are applied to forecast units of service for each customer class to
verify that the proposed rate schedule generates revenues commensurate with the cost of
providing service.
• For the sewer utility, tests are performed to verify that operation, maintenance and
replacement costs are recovered proportionately in accordance with Federal User Charge
requirements.
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140AD RLW[ai*S►Lia
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING § 51.137 OF THE CODE OF
FAYETTEVILLE, TO ADJUST SEWER RATES.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS:
Section 1. That § 51.137 of the Code of Fayetteville is hereby repealed, and
Exhibit "A" attached hereto and made a part hereof, is inserted in its stead.
PASSED and APPROVED this 30th day of December, 2003.
APPROVED:
By:
ATTEST:
By:
SONDRA SMITH, City Clerk
DAN COODY, Mayor
EXHIBIT A - 12/12/2003
51.137 Monthly Sewer Rates
(A)Monthly sewer rates. All monthly sewer charges shall be calculated from the
customer's monthly water usage. The following monthly rates are hereby fixed as
rates to be charged for sewer services:
(1) Monthly sewer quantity charge:
Table E-1
Monthly Sewer Quantity Charge - Usage Rates Per 1,000 Gallons
Beginning February 9, 2004
(*Across -the -Board Percentage; **Cost of Service Methodology)
Residential* $ 2.61
Commercial/Industrial* 2.04
Outside city limits** 6.03
Elkins** 5.24
Table E-2
Monthly Sewer Quantity Charge - Usage Rates Per 1,000 Gallons
After December 31, 2004
Residential* $ 2.84
Commercial/Industrial* 2.22
Outside city limits** 6.57
Elkins** 5.71
Table E-3
Monthly Sewer Quantity Charge - Usage Rates Per 1,000 Gallons
After December 31, 2005
Residential* $ 3.10
Commercial/Industrial* 2.42
Outside city limits** 7.16
Elkins** 6.22
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EXHIBIT A -12/12/2003
(1) Monthly service charge:
Table F-1 Monthly Sewer Service Charge
Beginning February 9, 2004
Meter Size
Inside City
Outside Cityt
5/8 inch
$ 8.72
$ 8.72
3/4 inch
10.08
11.87
1 inch
11.34
16.28
1'/2 inch
15.85
28.90
2 inch
21.10
41.51
3 inch
46.31
97.02
4 inch
77.51
160.09
6 inch
149.26
317.78
8 inch
232.26
475.47
Table F-2 Monthly Sewer Service Charge
After December 31, 2004
Meter Size
Inside City
Outside Cityt
5/8 inch
$ 9.50
$ 9.50
3/4 inch
10.99
12.94
1 inch
12.36
17.75
1'/2 inch
17.27
31.50
2 inch
23.00
45.25
3 inch
50.77
105.75
4 inch
84.49
174.50
6 inch
163.64
346.38
flinch
253.16
518.26
Table F-3 Monthly Sewer Service Charge
After December 31, 2005
Meter Size
Inside City
Outside Cityt
5/8 inch
$ 10.36
$ 10.35
3/4 inch
11.98
14.10
1 inch
13.47
19.35
1'/2 inch
21.99
34.33
2 inch
31.44
49.32
3inch
73.01
115.27
4 inch
120.26
190.21
6 inch
238.37
377.56
8 inch
356.48
564.90
tCost of Service Methodology required by contract.
(B) Determination of charge for domestic customers. In the case of domestic customers,
the average monthly water consumption for the preceding months of December,
January, and February shall be computed separately for each customer, and a uniform
monthly charge for each customer shall be determined by applying the schedule of
rates set out in subsection (A) of this section to such average monthly water
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EXHIBIT A -12/12/2003
consumption. In the case of a domestic user for whom a uniform monthly charge has
been established and who moves to a new location the same uniform monthly charge
shall apply at the new location. In the case of new domestic users, the schedule of
rates shall be applied to monthly water usage until an average monthly water
consumption has been established. This methodology shall not apply to multi -family
structures containing five (5) or more units in a contiguous building.
(C) Determination of charge for commercial and industrial customers. In the case of
commercial and industrial customers the monthly sewer charge shall be determined
by applying the schedule of rates prescribed in subsection (A) of this section to the
monthly water usage of such customers. In the event that a commercial or industrial
customer discharging waste into the city's sanitary sewer system produces evidence
to the water and sewer superintendent demonstrating that a substantial portion of the
total amount of water from all sources used for all purposes does not reach the
sanitary sewer which is in excess of the factors used in establishing the rates in
subsection (A) of this section, an estimated percentage of total water consumption to
be used in computing charges may be established by the water and sewer
superintendent. The factors used in establishing said rates are on file in the office of
the water and sewer superintendent and are incorporated herein by reference thereto.
Any rate so adjusted by the water and sewer superintendent shall be effective for a
12 -month period beginning with the billing for the month when rates adjudged
hereby go into effect.
(D)Extra Strength Surcharge. For all commercial and industrial customers whose
wastewater discharge is greater than 300 mg/I of GODS and/or TSS, the City shall
levy an Extra Strength Surcharge for each parameter in accordance with the
following unit charges:
Beginning After After
February 9, 2004 December 31, 2004 December 31, 2005
(1) Extra Strength BOD5 --- $0.2246/lb. 0.2449/lb. 0.2669/lb.
(2) Extra Strength TSS -----$0.1 123/lb. 0.1224/lb. 0.1334/lb.
Extra Strength Surcharges shall be billed monthly and shall be computed on the basis
of water meter reading (wastewater discharge volume).
(E) Definitions.
For the
purpose of this
division the following definitions
shall apply unless the
context
clearly indicates
or requires a different meaning:
(1) Commercial, industrial customer or user. All retail stores, restaurants, office
buildings, laundries, and other private business and service establishments
which contributes wastewater to the city's wastewater treatment plant. It shall
include any nongovernmental, nonresidential user of publicly owned
treatment works which is identified in the Standard Industrial Classification
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EXHIBIT A -12/12/2003
Manual, 1972, Office of Management and Budget, as amended and
supplemented, under the following divisions; Division A -Agriculture,
Forestry, and Fishing; Division B -Mining; Division D -Manufacturing;
Division E -Transportation, Communications, Electric, Gas and Sanitary; and
Division I -Services. It also includes social, charitable, religious, and
educational activities such as schools, churches, hospitals, nursing homes,
penal institutions and similar institutional users; legislative, judicial,
administrative, and regulatory activities of federal, state and local
governments.
(2) Domestic customer or user. Any contributor of wastewater to the city's
treatment works whose lot, parcel, or real estate, or building is used for
domestic dwelling purposes only.
(3) Infiltration/inflow. The total quantity of water other than wastewater from
both infiltration and inflow without distinguishing the source from defective
pipes, pipe joints, connections, manholes, roofleaders, cellar drains, yard
drains, area drains, foundation drains, drains from springs and swampy area,
cross connections, catch basins, cooling towers, storm waters, surface runoffs,
street wash water, or drainage.
(4) Municipality. A city, town, county, parish, district, association, or other
public body (including an inter -municipal agency of two or more of the
foregoing entities) created under state law having jurisdiction over disposal of
sewage, industrial waste or other waste. The definition includes special
districts such as water, sewer, sanitary, utility, drainage, transport, or disposal
of liquid waste of the general public in a particular geographic area.
(5) Operation and maintenance. Those functions that result in expenditures
during the useful life of the treatment works for materials, labor, utilities, and
other items which are necessary for managing and which such works were
designed and constructed. The term "operation and maintenance" includes
replacement.
(6) Replacement. Expenditures for obtaining and installing equipment,
accessories, or appurtenances which are necessary during the useful life of the
treatment works to maintain the capacity and performance for which such
works were designed and constructed.
(7) Treatment works. Any devices and systems for the storage, treatment,
recycling, and reclamation of municipal sewage, domestic sewage, or liquid
industrial wastes. These include intercepting sewers, outfall sewers, sewage
collection systems, pumping, power, and other equipment and their
appurtenances; extensions improvement; remodeling, additions, and
alterations thereof; elements essential to provide a reliable recycled supply
such as standby treatment units and clear well facilities; and any works,
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• EXHIBIT A - 12/12/2003 •
including site acquisition of the land that will be an integral part of the
treatment process or is used for ultimate disposal of residues resulting from
such treatment (including land for composting sludge, temporary storage of
such compost, and land used for the storage of treated wastewater in land
treatment systems before land application); or any other method or system for
preventing, abating, reducing, storing, treating, separating, or disposing of
municipal waste or industrial waste, including waste in combined storm water
and sanitary sewer systems.
(8) Useful life. The estimated period during which a treatment works will be
operated.
(9) User charge. That portion of the total wastewater service charge which is
levied in a proportional and adequate manner for the cost of operation,
maintenance and replacement of the wastewater treatment works.
(10) Water meter. A water volume measuring and recording device, furnished
and installed by the water department of the city.
(F) Deposit ofrevenues; fund.
(1) The revenues from charges collected by the city shall be deposited in a
separate non -lapsing fund known as the operation, maintenance, and
replacement fund.
(2) Fiscal year-end balances in the operation, maintenance and replacement fund
shall be used for no other purpose than those designated. Moneys which may
be transferred from other sources to meet temporary shortages in the
operations, maintenance, and replacement fund shall be returned to their
respective accounts upon appropriate adjustment of the user charge rates. The
user charge rates shall be adjusted so that the transferred moneys will be
returned to their respective accounts within six months of the fiscal year in
which moneys were borrowed.
(3) Application for review; adjustments to user.
(a) Any user who feels that the volume used to determine his bill is incorrect may
make written application to the Director of Water and Wastewater requesting
a review of his bill. The written request shall, where necessary, show actual
or estimated flows and/or strength of his wastewater, including how the
measurements were made.
(b) A review of the request shall be made by the Water and Wastewater Director
and if substantiated, the charges for that user shall be recomputed based on the
revised flow and/or strength characteristics. In no case, however, shall
allowances or adjustments be made for claims of sewage strengths less than
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• EXHIBIT A -12/12/2' •
300 mg/l suspended solids and 300 mg/l of BOD5.
(c) Any adjustments will be applicable to the next billing period.
(4) Annual review by city; revision of rates; notification of user.
(a) The city shall review the charges at least annually and revise the rates as
necessary to ensure that adequate revenues are generated to pay the cost of
operation, maintenance, and replacement, and that the system continues to
provide for the proportional distribution of operation, maintenance, and
replacement costs among users and user classes.
(b) The city shall notify each user at least annually, in conjunction with a regular
bill, of the rates being charged for operation, maintenance and replacement of
the treatment works.
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SEAN -MICHAEL ARGO
Notary Public -Arkansas
WASHINGTON COUNTY
My Commission Expires '--25.2013
RECEIVED
JAN 082094
CITY OF FAYETTEVILLE
CITY CLERK'S OFFICE
212 NORTH EAST AVENUE • P.O. BOX 1607 • FAYEI I EVILLE, ARKANSAS 72702 • (501) 442-1700
ORDINANCE No. 4030 qw
MI ORDINANCE AMENDING $61 .137 OF THE CODE OF
PAYETTMLLE, TO ADJUST SEWER RATES.
BE R ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY �L��
DF PAYETTEWLLE, ARIUCiIs?
NSASs of Fayetteville
section 1. That § 51.137 of the Code of Fayetteville is hereby
apealed, and Exhlbit'Aattached hereto and made a part hereof, Is Inserted in Its stead.
PASSED and APPROVED this 30th day of December, 2003.
>PPROVED:
By;
DAN COODY, Meyer
TEST;
3y:
SONDRA SMITH, CHI Clerk
$1.137 MenTIV Sewer Rate.
A) Monthly sewer rate.. All monthly sewer charges Shad be calculated from the customers monthly
water usage. The following monthly rates are hereby fixed as rates to be charged for sewer services:
It) MonMy Power quantity charge;
Table Bd
Monthly Sewer Quantity Charge - Usage Rates tin 7,000 Gallons
Beginning Peln,ary S, 2004
('Across -the -Board Percentage; "Cost of Service Methodology)
Resldentlal' $ 2.61
CommercalAndustlt 2.04
Outside city limits" 6.03
Elkins" 5.24
Table E-2
Monthly Sewer Quantity Charge - Usage Rates Per 1,000 Gallons
After December 31, 2004
Residential' $ 2.84
Commerdallndushar 2.22
Outside city limits" 6.57
Elkins" 5.71
in 1r1 :
Monthly Sewer Quantity Charge - Usage Rates Per 1,000 Gallons
After December 31, 2005
ResidentaP $ 3.10
CommerdaOrdusthal' 2.42
Outside city limits" 7.16
Elkins" 6.22
1) Months service Marge:
Table P-1
Monthly Sewer SeMce Charge
Beginning February 9, 2004
Meter Size
Inside City
Outside Cityt
5/B inch
$ 8.72
$ 8.72
3/41nch
10.08
11.87
1 Inch
11.34
16.28
1-1/2 Inch
15.65
28.90
2 Inch
21.10
41,51
3 inch
46.31
97.02
4 Inch
77.51
160.09
6 itch
149.26
317.78
8 inch
232.26
475.47
Table Fri Monty Sewer SeMce Charge
After December 31, 9005
Mete She
Inside Gry Outside Cityt
5/B Inch
$ 10.36 $ 10.35
3/4 inch
11.98 14.10
1 Inch
. 13.47 1935
1-1/2 Inch
21.99 34.33
2 Inch
31.44 49.32
3 inch
73.01 115.27
4 inch
120.26 19021.
6 Inch
238.37 377.56
81nch
356.48 564.90
7Cost of SeMce Methodology required by contract.
Table Fri Monthly Sewer Service Charge
After December 31, 2004
Meter Size
Inside City
Outside Cityt
5/8 inch
$9.50
$9.50
3/4 inch
10.99
12.94
1 Inch
12.36
17.75
14/2 inch
17.27
31.50
21nch
23.00
45.25
3 inch
50.77
105.75
4 koh
84.49
174.50
6 inch
163.84
346.36
B Inch
253.16
518.26
(SI Determination of charge for domestic cuatomem. In the case of domestic customers, the
average monthly water consumption for the preceding months of December, January, and February shall
be computed separately for each customer, and a uniform monthly charge for each customer shall be
determined by applying the schedule of rates set out in subsection A) of this section to such average
monthly water consumption. In the case of a domestic user for whom a uniform monthly charge has
been esablahed and who moves to a new location the same uniform monthly charge shall apply at the
new location. In the case of new domestic users, the schedue of rates shall be applied to monthly water
usage until an average monthy water consumption has been established. The methodology shall not
apply to multi-famly structures containing Me (5) or more units in a contiguous building.
Determination of charge for commercial and industrial customers. In the case of commercial and
industrial customers the monthly sewer charge shall be determined by applying the schedule of rates
prescribed In subsection (A) of this section to the monthly water usage of such customers. In the event
that a commercial or industrial customer discharging waste into the ally's sanitary sewer System
produces evidence to the water and sewer superintendent demonstrating that a substantial portion of
the total amount of water from all sources usedar all purposes does not reach the sanitary server which
sin excess of the factors used in establishing the rates in subsection (AI of this section, an estimated
percentage of total water consumption to be used' in computing purges may be established by the
water and sewer superintendent. The factors used in establishing said rates are on file in the office of the..
water and sewer superintendent and are incorporated heroin by reference thereto. My rate so adjusted
by the water and sewer superintendent shall be effective for a 12 -month period beginning with the billing.
for the month when rates adjudged hereby go into effect.
Rib. Strength Surcharge. For all convnercial and industrial customers whose wastewater'
discharge is greater than 300 mg/I of BOD5 and/or TSS, the Cry shal levy an Extra Strength Surcharge
for each parameter in accordance with the following unit charges:
7l ginning After After
FeWuriryA2004 December31,2004 December31, 2005
Extra Strength BOD5---
$0.2246Ab.
0.2449Ab.
0.2669Ab
Extra Strength TSS-----
$0.1123Ab.
0.1224Ab.
0.1334Ab
ra Strength Surcharges shall be billed monthly and shall be computed on the basis of water m
ding (wastewater discharge volume).
DetinMlcee.
the purpose of this dMsion the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly Indicate
nines a different meaning:
Commercial, Indust1al customer or user. All most stores, restaurants, office bandit
tries, and other private business and service establishments which contrixites wastewater to
"a wastewater treatment plant. It shell Include any nongovernmental, nonresidential user of put
ned treatment works which is identified in the Standard Industrial Classification Manual, 1972, 0
and Budget, as amended and supplemented, under the
strv. and Fsshsrc: OMelon B-Mi,rno: Division D-Manufacti
nmulcaticns, Bectric, Gas and Sanitary; and Division I -Services. It also includes sodas, charitable,
lbus, and educational actMties such as schools, churches, hospitals, nursing homes, penal
itutbns and similar institutional users; legislative, judicial, administrative, and regulatory activities of
3ral, state and local governments.
Domestic customer or user. My contributor of wastewater to the city's treatment works whose
parcel, or reel estate, or building is used for domestic dwelling purposes any.
InflR.edon/Inflow. The total quantity of water other than wastewater from both infiltration and
w without distinguishing the source from defective pipes, pipe joints, connections, manholes,
Readers, cellar drains, yard drains, area drains, foundation drains, drains from springs and swampy
3, cross connections, catch basins, cooling towers, stool, waters, surface runoffs. street wash water,
Imsnage.
Munidpallt A city, town, county, parish, district, association, or other public body (Including an
r -municipal agency of two or more of the foregoing entities) created under state law having jurisdiction
r disposal of sewage, industrial waste or other waste. The definition includes special districts such
water, sewer, sanitary, utility, drainage, transport, or disposal of liquid waste of the general public in a
titular geographic area.
Opntlen and maintenance. Those functions that result in expenditures during the useful life
he treatment works for materials, labor, utilities, and other items which are necessary for managing
which such works were designed and constructed. The term operation and maintenance' includes
acement.
Replacement Expenditures for obtaining and Installing equipment, accessories, or appurtenances
rh are necessary during the useful life of the treatment works to maintain the capacity and
lormence for which such works ware designed and constructed.
Treatment works. Any devices and systems for the storage, treatment, recycling, and reclamation
nunidpal sewage, domestic sewage, or liquid industrial wastes. These include intercepting sewers,
fall sewers, sewage collection systems, pumping, power, and other equipment and than
xaterances; extensions improvement; remodeling, additions, and alterations thereof; dements
entel to provide a reliable recycled supply such as standby treatment units and dear well facilities;
I any works, including site acgolslion of the land that will be an integral part of the treatment process
s used for ultimate disposal of residues resulting from such treatment Qncluding and for composting
$ge, temporary storage of such compost, and land used for the storage of treated wastewater in and
attract systems before and application); or any other method or system for preventing, abating,
ucing, storing, treating, separating, or disposing of muddpal waste or industrial waste, inducing
AS In combined storm water and sanitary sewer systems.
Useful Ill.. The estimated period during which a treatment works will be operated.
User charge. That portion of Me total wastewater service charge which is levied in a proportional
I adequate manner for the cost of operation, maintenance and replacement of the wastewater
anent works.
I) Water major. A water volume measuring and recording device, furnished and installed by the
:er department of the city.
Deposit of rewnuse; fund.
The revenues from charges collected by the dry shall be deposited in a separate non -lapsing fund
win as the operation, maintenance, and repacerent fund.
Fiscal year-end balances in the operation, maintenance end replacement fund shall be used for no
or purpose than those designated. Moneys which may be transferred from other sources to meet
corary shortages in the operations, manta ance, and replacement fund shall be returned to their
pective accounts upon appropriate adjustment of the user charge rates. The user charge rates shall
adjusted so that the transferred moneys will be returned to their respectle accounts within six
nts of the fiscal year in which moneys were borrowed.
Application for review; adluebnenb to user.
My user who feels that the volume used to determine his bill is incorrect may make written
locaton to the Director of Water and Wastewater requesting a review of his bill. The will request
ill, where necessary, show actual or estimated flaws and/or strength of his wastewater, including how
measurements were made.
A review of the request shall be made by the Water and Wastewater Director and if substantiated,
charges for that user shall be recomputed based on the reused flow and/or strength characteristics.
to case, however, shall allowances or adjustments be made for dams of sewage strengths less than
mgA suspended solids and 300 mgA of BUD5.
Any adjustments will be applicable to the next billing period.
Annual review by cltr revision of rates; notification of user.
The city shall review the charges at least annually and revise the rates as necessary to ensure that
quale reventies am generated to pay the cost of operation, maintenance, and replacement, and
the system continues top for the proportional distribution of operation, maintenance, and
actin Tat costs among users and user Gasses,
notify each user at least a ualy. in conjunction with a regular bit, of the rates beh\
mad for opemibn, maintenance and rap,+:ament of the treatment works.
AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION
I, —«� it. /LLL//Jci% , do solemnly swear that I am
Legal Clerk of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/Northwest Arkansas
Times newspaper, printed and published in Lowell, Arkansas, and that
from my own personal knowledge and reference to the files of said
publication, that advertisement of:
was inserted in the regular editions on
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Po# Q�3-)151-0_
" Publication Charge: $ 2-1 cl o 5
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
i9+h dayof_ Pecewa)fr ,2003.
My Commission Expires: O7.25 of
Please do not pay from Affidavit.
An invoice will be sent.
Official Seal
SEAN -MICHAEL ARGO
Notary Public-A.seg
WASHINGTON COUNTY
My Commission Expires 07-25.2013
212 NORTH EAST AVENUE • P.O. BOX 1607 • FAYEfTEVILLE, ARKANSAS 72702 • (501) 442-17OO
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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
The Fayetteville City Council will conduct a public hearing on December 30,
2003, at 4:30 P.M. on the new sewer rate ordinance §51.137 of the Fayetteville Code.
The proposed readjusted rates are shown below:
51.137 Monthly Sewer Rates
(A)Monthly sewer rates. All monthly sewer charges shall be calculated from the
customer's monthly water usage. The following monthly rates are hereby fixed as
rates to be charged for sewer services:
(1) Monthly sewer quantity charge:
Table E-1
Monthly Sewer Quantity Charge - Usage Rates Per 1,000 Gallons
Beginning February 9, 2004
(*Across -the -Board Percentage; **Cost of Service Methodology)
Residential*
$ 2.61
CommercialQndustrial*
2.04
Outside city limits**
6.03
Elkins"
5.24
Table E-2
Monthly Sewer Quantity Charge - Usage Rates Per 1,000 Gallons
After December 31, 2004
Residential*
$ 2.84
Commercial/Industrial*
2.22
Outside city limits**
6.57
Elkins**
5.71
Table E-3
Monthly Sewer Quantity Charge - Usage Rates Per 1,000 Gallons
After December 31, 2005
Residential*
-$ 3.10
Commercial/industrials
2.42
Outside city limits**
7.16
Elkins**
6.22
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(1) Monthly service charge:
Table F-1 Monthly Sewer Service Charge
Beginning February 9, 2004
Meter Size
Inside City
Outside Cityt
5/8 inch
$ 8.72
$ 8.72
3/4 inch
10.08
11.87
1 inch
11.34
16.28
I_ inch
15.85
28.90
2 inch
21.10
41.51
3 inch
46.31
97.02
4 inch
77.51
160.09
6 inch
14926
317.78
8 inch
232.26
475.47
Table F-2 Monthly Sewer Service Charge
After December 31, 2004
Meter Size
Inside City
Outside Cityt
5/8 inch
$ 9.50
$ 9.50
3/4 inch
10.99
12.94
1 inch
12.36
17.75
I_ inch
17.27
31.50
2 inch
23.00
45.25
3 inch
50.77
105.75
4 inch
84.49
174.50
6 inch
163.64
346.38
8 inch
253.16
518.26
Table F-3 Monthly Sewer Service Charge
After December 31, 2005
Meter Size
Inside.City
Outside Cityt
5/8 inch
$ 10.36
$ 10.35
3/4 inch
11.98
14.10
1 inch
13.47
19.35
Inch
21.99
34.33
2 inch
31.44
49.32
3 inch
73.01
115.27
4 inch
120.26
190.21
6 inch
238.37
.377.56
8 inch
356.48
564.90
tCost of Service Methodology required by contract.
(B) Determination of charge for domestic customers. In the case of domestic customers,
the average monthly water consumption for the preceding months of December,
January, and February shall be computed separately for each customer, and a uniform
monthly charge for each customer shall be determined by applying the schedule of
rates set out in subsection (A) of this section to such average monthly water
consumption. In the case of a domestic user for whom a uniform monthly charge has
been established and who moves to a new location the same uniform monthly charge
shall apply at the new location. In the case of new, domestic users, the schedule of
rates shall be applied to monthly water usage until an average monthly water
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consumption has been established. This methodology shall not apply to multi -family
structures containing five (5) or more units in a contiguous building.
(C) Determination of charge for commercial and industrial customers. In the case of
commercial and industrial customers the monthly sewer charge shall be determined
by applying the schedule of rates prescribed in subsection (A) of this section to the
monthly water usage of such customers. In the event that a commercial or industrial
customer discharging waste into the city's sanitary sewer system produces evidence
to the water and sewer superintendent demonstrating that a substantial portion of the
total amount of water from all sources used for all purposes does not reach the
sanitary sewer which is in excess of the factors used in establishing the rates in
subsection (A) of this section, an estimated percentage of total water consumption to
be used in computing charges may be established by the water and sewer
superintendent. The factors used in establishing said rates are on file in the office of
the water and sewer superintendent and are incorporated herein by reference thereto.
Any rate so adjusted by the water and sewer superintendent shall be effective for a
12 -month, period beginning with the billing for the month when rates adjudged
hereby go into effect.
(D)Extra Strength Surcharge. For all commercial and industrial customers whose
wastewater discharge is greater than 300 mg/I of BOD5 and/or TSS, the City shall
levy an Extra Strength Surcharge for each parameter in accordance with the
following unit charges:
Beginning After After
February 9, 2004 December 31, 2004 December 31, 2005
(1) Extra Strength BOD5 --- $0.2246/lb. 0.2449/lb. 0.2669/lb.
(2) Extra Strength TSS ----- $0.1123/lb. 0.1224/lb. 0.1334/lb.
Extra Strength Surcharges shall be billed monthly and shall be computed on the basis
of water meter reading (wastewater discharge volume).
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FAYETTE d I LLE
THE CITY OF FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS
DEPARTMENTAL CORRESPONDENCE
To: Steve Davis
Finance & Internal Services
From: Clarice Buffalohead-Pearman
City Clerk Division
Date: January 9, 2004
Re: Ordinance No. 4536
Attached is a copy of the above ordinance passed by the City Council December 30, 2003,
amending § 51.137 of the Code of Fayetteville, adjusting the sewer rate. I've already given you a
publication affidavit for the ordinance therefore I am attaching only the affidavit for the public
hearing. These items will be recorded in the city clerk's office and microfilmed.
If anything else is needed please let the clerk's office know.
/cbp
attachments
cc: Nancy Smith, Internal Auditor