HomeMy WebLinkAbout022741 ORD - 11/12/1996AN ORDINANCE
AMENDING SECTION 55-50 OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES, CITY OF
CORPUS CHRISTI, REGARDING WATER RATES; PROVIDING FOR
REPEAL OF ALL ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT; PROVIDING FOR
SEVERANCE; PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE; AND
PROVIDING FOR PUBLICATION.
WHEREAS, existing water sources for the Corpus Christi region, which have
historically come from the Nueces River Basin, have proven unreliable, and Corpus Christi is
one of the only major metropolitan areas in the United States that faces the risk of running out of
water if the present drought persists in severity; and
WHEREAS, it is critical to the Corpus Christi region that new water sources identified
as economical and reliable by the City, and confirmed by the Texas Water Development Board in
its Trans -Texas Water Program, be developed and placed in service as soon as feasible to protect
the health and prosperity of citizens and employers in the region; and
WHEREAS, the City Council has a responsibility to the City's customers, within the
City limits and the region the City has traditionally served, to assure that the City provides
adequate water for the needs of its citizens and employers, both now and in the future, and the
City Council is moving forward with the projects it has determined to be in the best interests of
the City's customers; and
WHEREAS, the cost of new water is necessarily more expensive than present supplies;
and
WHEREAS, the City has employed qualified rate consultants to review the present
design of water rates charged by the City; and
WHEREAS, the City Council has determined, based on the reports of the City's rate
consultants, reports from City Staff, and deliberations of the City Council, that the design for
water rates within the City's water distribution system should be modified to charge all
customers the same amount for raw water on a direct pass through basis, and to make related
adjustments to insure a fairer system for all customers; and
WHEREAS, the City Council finds that the rate structure adopted herein is sufficient,
equitable, and consistent in application to each class of customers, and is not unreasonably
preferential, prejudicial or discriminatory.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI,
TEXAS:
SECTION 1. That the Code of Ordinances, Chapter 55, Utilities, Article III, Water
Rates and Charges, Section 55-50, on file with the City Secretary, is revised to read as follows:
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Sec. 55-50. Schedule of water rates.
Effective Date: January 1, 1997
(a) Rates for water service.
The rates for water service are as follows:
(1) Monthly Minimum Charges
a. Metered Treated Water Customers
Meter Size
(Inches)
Inside City Limits
Outside City Limits
Residential
Minimum annual service charge, domestic
67.578
5/8" - 3/4"
$4.583
$9.669
Commercial
5/8" - 3/4"
6.591
13.697
Residential &
Commercial
1"
10.521
21.458
1-1/2"
17.578
35.656
2"
27.319
55.127
3"
97.883
196.258
4"
111.667
223.837
6"
167.753
336.022
8" and larger
251.941
504.397
b. Untreated Water Customers
Minimum monthly service charge, industrial
$202.733
Minimum monthly service charge, domestic
6.756
Minimum annual service charge, domestic
67.578
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(2) Monthly Volume Charges Per 1,000 Gallons
(a) Residential Rate
*Use the Minimum Charges in Subsection (a)(1).
(b)
Commercial Rate
Inside City Limits
Outside City Limits
First 2,000 Gallons
Minimum*
Minimum*
Next 4,000 Gallons
$1.595
$3.309
Next 9,000 Gallons
1.729
3.309
Next 15,000 Gallons
2.237
3.309
Next 20,000 Gallons
2.732
3.309
Over 50,000 Gallons
3.309
3.309
*Use the Minimum Charges in Subsection (a)(1).
(b)
Commercial Rate
* Use the Minimum Charges in Subsection (a)(1).
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Inside City Limits
Outside City Limits
First 2,000 Gallons
Minimum*
Minimum*
Next 13,000 Gallons
$1.595
$3.443
Next 85,000 Gallons
1.421
3.094
Next 900,000 Gallons
1.086
2.411
Next 9,000,000 Gallons
0.858
1.328
Over 10,000,000 Gallons
0.577
0.832
* Use the Minimum Charges in Subsection (a)(1).
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(c) Capacity -Volume Treated Water Rates
1. Capacity Charges
2. Volume Charge
Inside City Limits
Outside City Limits
Rate per month per
1,000 gallons/day of
maximum day capacity
requirement
$12.458
$13.848
Rate per month per
1,000 gallons/day of
excess hourly capacity
requirement (in excess
of maximum day
capacity requirement)
$1.068
$1.737
2. Volume Charge
3. Minimum Charge
The minimum monthly charge shall be the sum of the capacity
charges.
(d) Public Agency for Resale Treated Water Rates
Treated water rates purchased by a public agency for resale are hereby set
as follows:
Inside City Limits
Outside City Limits
Volume charge for all
water per 1,000 gallons
$0.121
$0.229
3. Minimum Charge
The minimum monthly charge shall be the sum of the capacity
charges.
(d) Public Agency for Resale Treated Water Rates
Treated water rates purchased by a public agency for resale are hereby set
as follows:
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Cost Per 1,000 Gallons
First 2,000 Gallons
Minimum*
Next 13,000 Gallons
$1.541
Next 85,000 Gallons
1.381
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Next 900,000 Gallons
1.046
Next 9,000,000 Gallons
0.831
Over 10,000,000 Gallons
0.551
* Use the Minimum Charges in Subsection (a)(1).
(b) Raw water cost adjustment.
The rates for water service established in subsection (a) of this section are subject to
adjustment for the actual costs of raw water. The costs of raw water will be passed
directly to the consumer based on actual system -wide raw water diversion by adding the
raw water cost adjustment to the charges for water service on the customer's water bill.
This raw water cost adjustment will be calculated on a monthly basis. The actual
methods for computing the raw water cost adjustment for each class of water customer
shall be established in a written City Policy approved by the City Manager and filed with
the City Secretary. Prior to its effective date, the City Policy must be provided to the
City Council. When preparing the City Policy, the Assistant City Manager, Public Works
and Utilities shall:
(1)
Use the annual budgeted cost of debt service proportioned into equal charges over
a twelve month period.
(2) Expenditures for capital items shall be adjusted as follows:
(3)
a. The expense of acquiring a capital item that cost not more than $50,000
shall be charged to the month in which the expenditure is made.
b. The expense of acquiring a capital item that cost more than $50,000, but
not more than $100,000 shall be proportioned into equal charges over a
twelve month period.
c. The expense of acquiring a capital item that cost more than $100,000 shall
be amortized, and the expenses proportioned into equal monthly charges
over the number of years used to calculate depreciation expenses.
All operating and maintenance expenditures shall be charged in the month the
expenditure is made.
(4) All expenses for consultants, engineering, and legal services shall be charged to
the month in which the expenditure is made.
(5)
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Expenses related to the acquisition and transportation of emergency water
supplies shall be charged to the month in which the expenditure is made.
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(c) Definitions.
"Costs of raw water" is the total of all costs of acquiring, producing, storing, conserving,
and transporting untreated water from its source to the City's treatment facility. These
costs include, but are not limited to the costs of:
Construction, including debt service and contributions to the Choke Canyon Debt
Reserve Fund, operation, and maintenance of dams and reservoirs.
Construction, including debt service, operation, and maintenance of raw water
supply transmission pipelines.
Construction, including debt service, operation, and maintenance of wells.
Construction, including debt service, operation, and maintenance of facilities
capable of converting wastewater effluent, salt water, and brackish ground water
into water suitable for municipal, industrial, or agricultural uses.
Acquisition of new water supplies and water rights.
Payments to the P.L. 104-318 Alternative Water Supply Acquisition and Facilities
Construction Special Fund.
Construction, operation, and maintenance of facilities to reduce water losses from
water resources due to evaporation or the release of water from a reservoir due to
the operation of law.
Acquisition and transportation of emergency water supplies, including the costs of
transporting water by vessel or pipelines from other regions.
Water supply development and protection, including consultants' studies and
reports, investigations, legal fees, court costs, and any other costs related to the
development or protection of the water supply.
Administrative costs, including overhead and the portion of the City's general
administrative costs applicable to the activities enumerated in this definition.
SECTION 2. The method of determining water rates by separating the water bill into
two separate elements, the rate for water service, and the costs of raw water adjustment,
established in section 1 of this ordinance take effect on and shall be applied to all service
provided in a utility reading cycle beginning on or after January 1, 1997.
SECTION 3. That the additional rate increases provided in Section 5 of Ordinance
021814 on December 14, 1993, shall apply to the rates for water service in Section 55-50(a) of
the Code of Ordinances, as amended by Section 1 of this ordinance.
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SECTION 4. That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance
are repealed to the extent of the conflict.
SECTION 5. If for any reason any section, paragraph, subdivision, clause, phrase, word
or provision of this ordinance shall be held invalid or unconstitutional by final judgment of a
court of competent jurisdiction, it shall not affect any other section, paragraph, subdivision,
clause, phrase, word or provision of this ordinance, for it is the definite intent of this City
Council that every section, paragraph, subdivision, clause, phrase, word or provision hereof be
given full force and effect for its purpose.
SECTION 6. Publication shall be made in the official publication of the City of Corpus
Christi as required by the City Charter of the City of Corpus Christi.
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That the foregoing gQ(��,�dir} a was�1read for the first time and passed to its second reading on this
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the Day of inJV}) , 1996, by the following vote:
Mary Rhodes
Dr. Jack Best
Betty Black
Melody Cooper
Tony Heldenfels
Betty Jean Longoria
John Longoria
Edward A. Martin
Dr. David McNichols
That the f egoin�g^o}dinance,,�,was read for the second time and passed finally on this the �7
Day of Avt , 1996 by the following vote:
Mary Rhodes
Dr. Jack Best
Betty Black
Melody Cooper
Tony Heldenfels
Betty Jean Longoria
John Longoria
Edward A. Martin
Dr. David McNichols
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PASSED AND APPROVED, this the OAA Day of'MrVov.h01-) , 19 qft .
ATTEST:
Armando Chapa, City Secretary Mayor
The City of Corpus Christi
APPROVED: 13 74 DAY OF AlademA e r , 1996:
James R. Bray, Jr., City Attorney
By:
R. Ja, Re', 'ng
As stan City Attorney
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PUBLISHER'S AFFIDAVIT
CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI
County of Nueces } ss: Ad #: 988821
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Before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public, this day personally came Darrell
G. Coleman, who being first duly sworn, according to law, says that he is Vice -
President and Chief Financial Officer of the Corpus Christi Caller -Times, a daily
newspaper published at Corpus Christi in said County and State, generally
circulated in Aransas, Bee, Brooks, Duval, Jim Hogg, Jim Wells, Karnes,
Kenedy, Kleberg, Live Oak, Nueces, Refugio, San Patricio, Victoria and Webb
Counties, and that the publication of, NOTICE OF PASSAGE OF ORDINANCE
NO. 022741 AMENDING SECTION 55-50 OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES,
CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, REGARDI which the annexed is a true copy, was
published in the Corpus Christi Caller -Times on NOVEMBER 18, 1996.
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Vice -President and Chief Financial
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Subscribed and sworn to before me
on November 25, 1996 .
Notary Public, Nueces County, Texas
CONNIE HARALSON
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