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Home My WebLink About09196 ORD - 01/08/1969IMS:JKH:1 -8-69 AN ORDINANCE APPROPRIATING AND REAPPROPRIATING THE SUM OF $30,000 OUT OF GENERAL FUND NO. 102, AND AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO ACCEPT THE CONTRACT FOR ENGINEERING SERV- ICES PROPOSED BY BLACK & VEATCH, CONSULTING ENGINEERS, OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CON- TRACT, A COPY OF WHICH IS ATTACHED HERETO AND MADE A PART HEREOF; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS: SECTION 1. THERE IS HEREBY APPROPRIATED AND REAPPROPRIATED THE SUM OF $30,000 OUT OF GENERAL FUND NO. 102, AND THE CITY MANAGER IS HEREBY AUTHORIZED TO ACCEPT THE CONTRACT FOR ENGINEERING SERVICES PROPOSED BY BLACK & VEATCH, CONSULTING ENGINEERS, OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONTRACT, A COPY OF WHICH IS ATTACHED HERETO AND MADE A PART HEREOF. SECTION 2. THE NECESSITY TO APPROPRIATE THE NECESSARY FUNDS AND TO AUTHORIZE THE CITY MANAGER TO ACCEPT THE CONTRACT FOR ENGINEERING SERVICES OF BLACK & VEATCH IN ORDER THAT THEIR SERVICES MAY BE BEGUN WITHOUT DELAY CREATES A PUBLIC EMERGENCY AND AN IMPERATIVE PUBLIC NECESSITY REQUIRING THE SUSPENSION OF THE CHARTER RULE THAT NO ORDINANCE OR RESOLUTION SHALL BE PASSED FINALLY ON THE DATE OF ITS INTRODUCTION AND THAT SUCH ORDINANCE OR RESOLUTION SHALL BE READ AT THREE SEVERAL MEETINGS OF THE CITY COUNCIL, AND THE MAYOR HAVING DECLARED THAT SUCH EMERGENCY AND NECESSITY EXIST, AND HAVING REQUESTED THAT SUCH CHARTER RULE BE SUSPENDED AND THAT THIS ORDINANCE BE PASSED FINALLY ON THE DATE OF ITS INTRODUCTION AND TAKE EFFECT AND BE IN FULL FORCE AND EFFECT FROM AND AFTER ITS PASSAGE, IT IS ACCORDINGLY SO ORDAINED, THIS THE 8TH DAY OF JANUARY, 1969. ATTEST' CTTT SEC L7 A THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS APPROVED: THIS 8TH DA OF JANUARY, 1969: r CITY AT ORNEY g1°g BLACK & V E A T C H AREA CODE 616 CONSULTING ENGINEERS TEL. EMERSON 3 -1402 1500 MEADOW LAKE PARKWAY MAILING ADDRE55 • P.O. BO% NO. 6403 KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI 64114 CONTRACT FOR ENGINEERING SERVICES THIS CONTRACT, made and executed in duplicate this day of 19 , by and between the City of Corpus Christi, Texas, hereinafter called the City, party of the first part, and Black 3 Veatch, Consulting Engineers, Of Kansas City, Missouri, hereinafter called Wie Engineera, party of the second part; WITNESSETH: That in consideration of the mutual covenants herein contained, the City hereby agrees to employ the Engineers to perform engineering services hereinafter set forth, and the City hereby agrees to nay the Engineers for said engineering services according to the schedule of fees herein specified. SECTION I. The services which the Engineers agree to perform comprise the preparation of a comprehensive water rate study which is to include de- termination of revenue requirements, allocation of costs of service, and design of water rates. Said comprehensive water rate study shall consist of the following steps: 1. Supervise the preparation of a bill analysis of customer water use for a recent twelve month period. 2. Develop revenue requirements of the water utility based on financial records to be furnished by the City. The revenue requirements will include operation and maintenance expense, routine annual capital additions and replacements, payment in lieu of taxes, principal and interest on existin3 and proposed bond issues, and all other costs associated or expected to be associated with the operation of tine water utility as specified by the City. The annual revenue requirements will be projected for a period of at least five years in the future. 3. Allocate the revenue requirements, or total cost of services provided by the water utility, to the various cost of service components which constitute a functional classification of the different types of service the water utility provides to customers. Da,jor classifications of the cost of service com- ponents shall include costs which vary directly with the total quantity of water used, costs associated with meeting water demands in excess of the averse rate of use, and costs which vary in proportion to the number of customers connected to the system. k. Determine water usage and demand characteristics of each customer eleaaification based on experience, statistical data, and applicable conditions in Corpus Christi. Customer classificstlam may include residential, multiple— residential, coMMOrcial, industrial, and other Special services. 5. Distribute the functional cost of service component cowls to the various customer classification on the basis of the relative responsibility of each classification for services provided as dotermined from the customer classificat ion characteristics. 6. Estimate the revenues, under the existing schedule of vater rates, anticipated from each customer cleasification and compare suet► revenues w1th the distributed functional cost of service component costs and determine the adjustment in revenues for each Classification required to equitably distribute total cost of service to the respective classifications. 7. Design a schedule of vater rates which will recover the revenue requirements of the customer Blesses in accordance with the cost of service analysis giving consideration to adjustment of cost of service ratea for practical considerations. 8. The results of the water rate study will be suemsrized in a formal report, 75 copies of which will be furnished the City for its use. The report will be delivered personally and presented by a representative of the Engineers on a date agreeable to the City. SECTION II. It is mutually understood end agreed that the City will provide, at its own expense, the following Items 1. All maps, Plans, records, statistical and financial data, reports by others, etc. which are related to the water utility and deemed useful in the vm* involved under this contract. 2. A bill analysis of customer water use for the most recent fiscal year to be prepared under the direction of the Engineer. 3. The major capital improvement program of the water utility for at least a five year period. such a program shall contain a description of the their estimated cost, and probable time of need. $. Office desk space for the Engineera' personnel while in Corpus Christi. —2— 0101 III. For all the services eat forth in Section I. the City agrees to Pay the saneors a fee equal to the sum of 1) twice payroll costs, which consist of salaries end twenty (20) per cent direct payroll overhead, of all personnel charges to the work and 2) all direct expenses at actual coat, including travel cud subsistence away fz the Kansan City office, telephone, reproduction, and similar expenses. The tee for the ear*rehensive water rate study as outlined iu Section I. so computed shall not exceed Thirty Thousand Dollars ($30.090) and shall be due and payable upon delivery of the final report. Work in addition to that outlined in Section I may be performed by the Engineers upon written authorization of the City. In such an event, the fee for such work shall be on the basis steed above. except that it will not be included within the maximum. limit. Such extra work specifically includes conferences, m atinga and appearances after final completion and presentation to the City. IN HIT=S I -FM. F,OF, the parties of the first and second parts have hereunto set their hands and seals on the date first above written. CORPUS CLMSTI, TiYAS BLACK b YEA=. Consulting Engineers Pasty of the First Fart Party of the Second Part BY $y C. W. Keller Attest: (S M-) - 3- RIST ix I, 5 Y OF TO THE MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS FOR THE REASONS SET FORTH IN THE EMERGENCY CLAUSE OF THE FOREGOING ORDINANCE, A PUBLIC EMERGENCY AND IMPERATIVE NECESSITY EXIST FOR THE SUSPEN- SION OF THE CHARTER RULE OR REQUIREMENT THAT NO ORDINANCE OR RESOLUTION SHALL BE PASSED FINALLY ON THE DATE IT IS INTRODUCED, AND THAT SUCH ORDINANCE OR RESOLUTION SHALL BE READ AT THREE MEETINGS OF THE CITY COUNCIL; I, THEREFORE, REQUEST THAT YOU SUSPEND SAID CHARTER RULE OR REQUIREMENT AND PASS THIS ORDI- NANCE FINALLY ON THE DATE IT IS INTRODUCED, OR AT THE PRESENT MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL. RESPECTFULLY, YOR THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS THE CHARTER RULE WAS SUSPENDED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE: JACK R. BLACKMON RONNIE SIZEMORE V. A. "DICK" BRADLEY, JR. P. JIMENEZ, JR., M.D. GAGE LOZANO, SR. KEN MCDANIEL W. J. "WRANGLER" ROBERTS THE ABOVE ORDINANCE WAS PASSED BY THE FOLLOW VOTE: JACK R. BLACKMON RONNIE SIZEMORE V. A. "DICK" BRADLEY, JR. P. JIMENEZ, JR., M.D. GABE LOZANO, SR. KEN MCDANIEL W. J. "WRANGLER" ROBERTS