Explanation
Background: This ordinance authorizes an increase of 9.50% in sanitary sewer service rates for the Division of Sewerage and Drainage operations. The proposed rates reflect an across the board increase.
The Sewer and Water Advisory Board met on October 20, 2004 and after reviewing projected expenditures for 2005 recommends to City Council the proposed increase of 9.5% in sanitary sewer rates. This increase is consistent with the rate increase projected last year for the year 2005.
Fiscal Impact: This rate increase will generate approximately $9.2 million in 2005.
Title
To amend Chapter 1147 of the Columbus City Codes 1959, to enact new sanitary sewer service rates for the year beginning January 1, 2005, and to repeal the existing Section being amended
Body
WHEREAS, it is necessary to establish new sewer sanitary services rates, effective January 1, 2005, for sewerage services to properties discharging into the sanitary sewerage system of the City of Columbus in order to recover the cost of rendering said sewerage services for the calendar year 2005; now, therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That effective January 1, 2005, Section 1147.11 of the Columbus City Codes, 1959, be and is hereby amended to read as follows:
1147.11 Rate Schedules.
(a) Charges Within Corporate Limits. For the purpose stated in Sections 1147.02 and 147.12 there is hereby charged to each user situated within the corporate limits of the city, having any active sewer connection with the sewerage system of such city or otherwise discharging sewerage, industrial wastes, water or other liquids, either directly or indirectly into the city's sewerage system, sewer charges as hereinbefore provided, and in the amount determinable as follows:
(1) For any such lot, parcel of land, building or premises having any connection with the city's sewerage system or otherwise discharging sanitary sewerage, industrial wastes, water or other liquids, either directly or indirectly into the city's sewerage system, such charge shall be based upon the quantity of water used therein as the same is measured by a water meter or meters there in use, as hereinafter described, and there shall be charged:
The charges as prescribed in the rate schedule as follows: SEE SPREADSHEET ATTACHED
(b) Charges Outside Corporate Limits. For the purpose stated in Sections 1147.02 and 1147.12, there is hereby charged to each user situated outside the corporate limits of the city, having any active sewer connection with the sewerage system of such city or otherwise discharging sewage, industrial wastes, other liquids, either directly or indirectly into the city's sewerage system, sewer charges as hereinbefore provided, and in the amount determinable as follows:
(1) For any such lot, parcel of land, building or premises having any connection with the city's sewerage system or otherwise discharging sanitary sewage, industrial wastes, water or other liquids, either directly or indirectly into the city's sewerage system, such charge shall be based upon the quantity of water used thereon or therein as the same is measured by a water meter or meters there in use, as hereinafter described, and there shall be charged:
The charges as prescribed in the rate schedule as follows: SEE SPREADSHEET ATTACHED
SECTION 2. That effective January 1, 2005, existing Section 1147.11, (a) and (b) of Chapter 1147 of the Columbus City Codes, 1959, be and is hereby repealed.
SECTION 3. That this ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after the earliest period allowed by law.