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AMENDING THE CODE OF ORDINANCES, CITY OF CORPUS
CHRISTI, CHAPTER 55, UTILITIES, REGARDING WATER, GAS AND
WASTEWATER RATES; PROVIDING FOR SEVERANCE; PROVIDING
AN EFFECTIVE DATE; AND PROVIDING FOR PUBLICATION.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI,
TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 55-50 of the Code of Ordinances is amended by revising it to read
as follows:
"Sec. 55-50. Schedule of water rates.
"(a) Base rates for water service.
"The rates for water service are as follows:
"(1) Monthly Minimum Charges
"a. Metered Treated Water Customers
"1. Inside City Limits
Meter Size ~ ...... * ~
· .~ .... , Auqust 1,
(Inches) 2003 to 2004 to
~"~"31, July 31,
2004 2005
Residential
5/8" - 3/4" $-6A24 $ 6.430
Commercial
5/8" - 3/4" 8.838 9.279
Residential &
Commercial
1" ~ 14.809
1-1/2" ~ 24.879
2" 3~.8~6 38.709
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Meter Size
(Inches)
11
8" and larger
Large
Volume
Any size
^ ...... * ~ August 1,
2003 tc 2004 to
h,~,, q~ July 31,
onn~ 2005
!~2.277 138.8g0
4~(k94,3 158.458
226.747 238.084
~ 357.610
11,482.09g
12,056.203
2
"2. Outside City Limits
Meter Size
ann~to
2094
Auqust 1,
2004 to
July 31,
2005
Residential
5/8" - 3/4" $13.00! $13.651
Commercial
5/8" - 3/4" !8.447 19.369
Residential &
Commercial
1" ~ 30.388
1-1/2" 48-.438 50.544
2" 7'!,.465 78.188
3" 268~-q8.9 278.553
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Meter Size
Au,qust 1,
2004 to
July 31,
2005
4" 302.580 317.709
6" ~ 476.979
8" and larger ~ 716.024
Large
Volume
Any size 19,159.030 20,116.981
"b. Untreated Water Customers
2003 tc
Minimum
monthly
service
charge, water
districts/
municipalities
with raw
water supply
contracts
executed
after danuary
1, 1997
$274.!!7
August 1,
2004 to
July 31,
2005
$287.822
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· ._~_.. !, Au,qust 1,
2003 tc 2004 to
~"~" '~ July 31
2OO~. 2005
Minimum
monthly
service
charge for
Public
Agency for
Resale
Untreated
Water without
a raw water
supply
contract
executed
after
January 1,
19974
175.297
Minimum
monthly
service
charge,
industrial
'~'~'~ '~"'~ 287.822
Minimum
monthly
service
charge,
domestic
9.588
Minimum
annual
se~ice
charge,
domestic
95.938
.1 Minimum monthly charge for Public Agency for Resale Untreated Water customer
without a raw water supply contract executed after January 1, 1997: If the charge
based on the volume of water taken in a monthly billing period is less than~
$175.297, the customer shall be billed-$466~50 $175.297, unless a valid water supply
contract between the customer and City that was executed prior to January 1, 1997,
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provides for a minimum annual payment. If a valid water supply contract between the
customer and City executed prior to August 1, 2000, provides for a minimum annual
payment, the customer shall pay the minimum annual payment under the contract.
"(2) Monthly Volume Charges Per 1,000 Gallons
"a. Residential Rate
"1. Inside City Limits
^ ...... * '~ Au.qust 1,
· >nn~ 2004
~'"" ~ July 31
2904 2005
First 2,000
Gallons
~;'-; ....* Minimum*
Next
13,000
Gallons
$2.!!8 92.223
Next
15,000
Gallons
3.137
Next
20,000
Gallons
3.839
Over
50,000
Gallons
4.658
"*Use the Minimum Charges in Subsection (a)(1).
"2. Outside City Limits
^ ...... + ~ August 1,
2003 2004
~e to
~'"" ~ July 31
onn,4 2005
First 2,000 Minim'.'m* Minimum*
Gallons
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Next
13,000
Gallons
Next · '~ ,~'~'~
15,000
Gallons
Next
20,000
Gallons
Over $ 4.,!37
50,000
Gallons
"*Use the Minimum Charges in Subsection (a)(1).
"b. Commercial Rate
"1. Inside City Limits
First 2 000 ~;"; .... *
Gallons
Next $ 2.! !8
13,000
Gallons
Next
85,000
Gallons
Next $ !/!32
900,000
Gallons
Over $ !.!22
1,000,000
Gallons
$ 4.658
$ 4.658
$ 4.658
$ 4.658
August 1,
2004
to
July 31,
2005
Minimum*
$ 2.223
$1.978
.503
$1.178
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"" Use the Minimum Charges in Subsection (a)(1).
"2. Outside City Limits
...... * ~ August 1I
2093 2004
~ to
Ju~. v,, July 31,
2994 2005
First 2,000 Minimum* Minimum*
Gallons
Next
13,000
Gallons
4.848
Next
85,000
Gallons
$ 4.!46 $ 4.353
Next
900,000
Gallons
Over
1,000,000
Gallons
$-l-.7-,58 $1.845
"* Use the Minimum Charges in Subsection (a)(1).
"c. Reserved"
"d. Public Agency for Resale Treated Water Rates
"Treated water rates purchased by a public agency for resale are hereby
set as follows:
A.~ .... August 1,
· ~nn~ 2004
~' '~" ~'~ July 31
29~ 2005
First 2,000 Min!mum* Minimum*
Gallons
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^ ...... * 1, August 1,
'~nn~ 2004
te to
~' '~" '~ July 31
~nn,~ 2005
Next
13,000
Gallons
$ 2.9'!,5 $ 2.147
Next
85,000
Gallons
$ !.830 $1.921
Next
900,000
Gallons
$ ! .376 $1.444
Next
9,000,000
Gallons
!.086 $1.140
Over
10,000,000
Gallons
0.707 $ 0.742
"* Use the Minimum Charges in Subsection (a)(1).
"e. Large Volume Customers
"A commercial customer who agrees to pay for a minimum of 10,000,000
gallons of treated water per month is considered a large volume customer.
Once a customer has elected to become a large volume customer, the
customer will be billed as a large volume customer until the customer
notifies the City and requests reclassification as a commercial customer in
writing. However, a commercial customer may not elect to become a
large volume customer more than once in any 12 month period.
"1. Inside City Limits
^ ...... * ~ August 1,
":,nn~ 2004
te t_90
~"~" ~ J ly 31
2994 2005
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First
10,000,000
Gallons
Minimum*
Each
Additional
1,000
Gallon
$ 0.781
"* Use the Minimum Charges in Subsection (a)(1).
"2. Outside City Limits
...... '~ ~ August 1,
· ~nn~ 2004
h il,, ":1~1 July 31
200'!. 2005
First
10,000,000
Gallons
,Minim'.-'m* Minimum*
Each
Additional
1,000
Gallon
1 .... $1.141
"* Use the Minimum Charges in Subsection (a)(1).
"f. Public Agency for Resale Untreated Water Rates
"The rates for the purchase of untreated water purchased by a public
agency, which does not have a raw water supply contract with the City
executed after January 1,1997, is the average of the monthly raw water
cost adjustments, established under subsection (b) of this section, for the
period used to determine the composite cost of untreated water under the
City's current contract with the public agency.
"(b) Raw water cost adjustment (RWCA).
"In addition to the charges for the base rates for water service, established in subsection
(a) of this section, a separate charge for the costs of raw water, the RWCA, will be
added to each consumer's bill, except Public Agency for Resale Untreated Water
customers without a raw water supply contract executed after January 1, 1997. (A
Public Agency for Resale Untreated Water customer without a raw water supply
contract executed after January 1, 1997, will pay the lower of the composite cost, as
defined in its contract with the City or the rate for Public Agency for Resale Untreated
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Water customers without a raw water supply contract executed after January 1, 1997,
specified in subsection (a)(2)f. of this section.) The RWCA will be based on projected
system-wide raw water sales. The RWCA will be calculated on an annual basis
according to the following procedures.
"(1) Use projected system-wide water sales based on historical consumption and
projected growth.
"(2) Include the annual budgeted cost of debt service. Bond payments,
amortization of deferred losses on refundings, and other debt service costs shall
be applied to the RWCA in the same proportion as the raw water activities
proportion of the original bond proceeds.
"(3) Include budgeted expenditures for purchases of water.
"(4) Include purchases of water rights, amortized over the duration of the water
right agreement.
"(5) Budgeted expenditures for capital items shall be included as follows:
"a. The expense of acquiring a capital item that cost not more than
$100,000 shall be charged in the year in which it is acquired.
"b. The expense of acquiring a capital item that cost more than $100,000
shall be amortized over the number of years used to calculate
depreciation expenses, with the half-year convention used in the year of
acquisition.
"(6) All operating and maintenance expenditures shall be charged based on
annual budgeted amounts. These expenditures include operation and
maintenance of dams, reservoirs, pipelines, wells, pumping stations, and related
inter[und charges.
"(7) All expenses for consultants, engineering, legal services, and administration
shall be charged based on annual budgeted amounts in the proportion to which
they apply to raw water issues.
"(8) Expenses related to the acquisition and transportation of emergency water
supplies shall be included in the RWCA for the following fiscal year, unless
foreseen and budgeted in advance, in which case they are included in the year
budgeted.
"(9) Miscellaneous revenues related to raw water activity, such as oil and gas
lease revenues and interest earned on debt service surety bonds, is applied as
an offset based on annual budgeted amounts.
"(10) At fiscal year end, determine the amount of over or under collections that
have resulted from differences between budgeted and actual expenses and
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offsetting revenues and the difference between projected and actual volume of
water sold. Apply this amount as an adjustment to the following fiscal year's
RWCA.
"(11) Apply the credit for levelized Choke Canyon debt payments to City rate-
payers' projected water consumption, and deduct from their RWCA, (The
escalating payment schedule on the Choke Canyon debt was levelized through
the creation of a reserve fund. In the initial years, payments greater than the
debt service were made, with the excess going into the reserve fund, This
excess was paid through a rate surcharge on ICL and OCL metered treated
water customers, Now that bond payments exceed the levelized payment
amount, the reserve fund is drawn on to make up the difference. Since only ICL
and OCL metered treated water customers participated in building the reserve
fund, the drawing on the reserve fund is only credited to the RWCA assessed
against ICL and OCL metered treated water customers,
"(c) Definitions.
'"Costs of raw water' is the total of all costs of acquiring, producing, stodng,
conserving, and transporting untreated water from its source to the City's
treatment facility and all other points of diversion. These costs include, but are
not limited to, the costs of:
"Construction, including debt service, 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.
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'~/Vater 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 water rates established in Section I of this ordinance shall take effect
and be applied against all service provided on or after the first day of August, 2004.
SECTION 3. Section 55-61 of the Code of Ordinances is amended to include the
classification of customers and schedule of gas rates, which shall read as follows:
"Sec. 55-61. Classification of customers and schedules of rates.
"(a) RESIDENTIAL CUSTOMERS:
"(1) Inside City Limits
"a. Winter rates (from November Cvcle 11 throuc~h April Cycle 10)
Monthly Consumption, ^,-~.,* !,August 1I
onn~ 200~ -
July 3!, July 31,
200'!. 2005
First 1 MCF $ 7 .... $ 8.281
(Minimum Bill)
Next 2 MCF $ '!./!,25
Next 7 MCF ,~
Next 40 MCF $ 2.'!, !'!,
All over 50 MCF $ !.7~,7
$ 4.646
$ 2.686
$ 2.534
$1.802
"Note: Rates do not include purchased gas adjustment and sales tax, where applicable
"b. Summer rates (from April Cycle 11 through November Cycle 10)
Monthly Consumption, ^,.~w.,+ 4,. August 1,
~ 2004 -
~"~" ~ July 31,
200'!. 2005
First 1 MCF $ 7.997 $ 8.281
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(Minimum Bill)
Next 2 MCF
Next 5 MCF
Next 30 MCF
All over 38 MCF
~ $ 4.646
2.559 $ 2.686
! .285 $1.349
!.!42 $1.199
"Note: Rates do not include purchased gas adjustment and sales tax, where applicable
"(2) Outside City Limits
"a. Winter rates (from November Cycle 11 through April Cycle 10)
Monthly Consumption
^ ...... +" August 1,
2003-- 2004 -
~"~" ~" July 31,
~ 2005
First I MCF ~ $10.218
(Minimum Bill)
Next 2 MCF ~ 5.209
Next 7 MCF 2.828 2.969
Next 40 MCF 2.~68 2.801
All over 50 MCF ! .86! 1.954
"Note: Rates do not include purchased gas adjustment and sales tax, where applicable
"b. Summer rates (from April Cycle 11 through November Cycle 10)
Monthly Consumption
Auguct !, Au.qust 1,
~ 2004 -
Ju!y 31, July 31,
2904 2005
First 1 MCF
(Minimum Bill)
10.218
Next 2 MCF
5.209
Next 5 MCF
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Next 30 MCF !/! ! ! 1.481
All over 38 MCF !.2!~, 1.274
"Note: Rates do not include purchased gas adjustment and sales tax, where applicable
"(b) GENERAL RATE CUSTOMERS (commercial, industrial, & institutional) rates:
"(1) Inside City Limits
Monthly Consumption
...... * ~ August 1,
":, n n ~2004 --
~' '~" '~July 31
2004 2005
First 1 MCF $ 7.997 $ 8.281
(Minimum Bill)
Next 2 MCF $ ,!, .~.25 4.646
Next 7 MCF $ '!,.!35 4.341
Next 40 MCF ~ 4.175
Next 50 MCF ¢" '~" v 1.802
Next 100 MCF $ ! '!.3! 1.502
Next 100 MCF $ !.250 1.312
Next 700 MCF ~ 1.255
Next 1,000 MCF $ ! .03~, 1.085
Next 13,000 MCF ~ 0.975
All over 15,000 MCF $-g~g4- 0.935
"Note: Rates do not include purchased gas adjustment and sales tax, where applicable
"(2) Outside City Limits
Monthly Consumption, ^,.~._.* !, August 1,
'3nnc~ 2004 -
~' '~" '~ July 31,
~ 2005
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First I MCF $-9-.732- $10.218
(Minimum Bill)
Next 2 MCF 4:96-!- 5.209
Next 7 MCF 4.659 4.891
Next 40 MCF ~,.d79 4.702
Next 50 MCF !.86! 1.954
Next 100 MCF 1.537 1.613
Next 100 MCF !.3~,0 1.407
Next 700 MCF ! .26~ 1.329
Next 1,000 MCF ! .93~, 1.085
Next 13,000 MCF O~28 0.975
All over 15,000 MCF ~ 0.935
"Note: Rates do not include purchased gas adjustment and sales tax, where applicable
"(c) SEASONAL CUSTOMERS (partial year service) rates (all customers who have
requested a cutoff and re-connection at the same location or for services to the same
premises, including increases or reductions of the same premises, and which cutoff was
not necessitated by reason of reconstruction of the building on the premises, shall be
classified as seasonal customers, and in lieu of the rates applicable to residential
customers, shall be charged and collected the following charge for gas furnished and
delivered to the meters by the Gas Depar[ment of the City):
"(1) Inside City Limits
Monthly Consumption, ^,,.u,.~,* !, Auqust 1,
2003- 2004 -
"'~" ~ July 31
20Od 2005
First 1 MCF
(Minimum Bill)
!3.!02 $13.757
Next 2 MCF ! !.8d9 12.441
Next 7 MCF 5.~2~ 5.907
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Next 30 MCF ~ 2.534
All over 40 MCF
1.717 1.8O2
"Note: Rates do not include purchased gas adjustment and sales tax, where applicable
"(2) Outside City Limits
Monthly Consumption.^.w~...* 4,. August 1,
2003 2004 -
~,,~'- q4 J Iv 31
2094 2005
First 1 MCF ~ $16525
(Minimum Bill)
Next 2 MCF !3.535 14.211
Next 7 MCF &3-7~ 6.697
Next 30 MCF 2.6~9 2.801
All over 40 MCF
1 .... 1.954
"Note: Rates do not include purchased gas adjustment and sales tax, where applicable
"(d) INCENTIVE AIR COOLING AND CONDITIONING RATE CUSTOMERS rates
(limited to customers using less than 15,000 MCF per month annual average. All
general rate customers that have installed total energy or have gas operated air cooling
and air conditioning equipment, or both. and have an average used in MCF per month
in the seven summer months that exceeds the five winter months in average use, when
inspected and approved by the Gas DepaH.,ent, who request in writing to be billed in
the summer months on the Summer Incentive Gas Rate Schedule starting with Cycle 11
in Apdl and ending with the billing Cycle 10 in November shall be billed on the following
rate schedule):
"(1) Inside City Limits
Monthly
Consumption
~ August 1,
onn~ 2004 -
~"~" ~ July 31
onn~ 2005
First 1 MCF
(Minimum Bill)
$ 7.896 $ 8.280
Next 2 MCF
4-A24 4.645
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Next 7 MCF 4.!35 4.341
Next 40 MCF 3.025 3.176
Next 150 MCF ! .285 1.349
Next 300 MCF 4-A96 1.255
Next 500 MOF ! .03'!, 1.085
Next 14,000 MCF 0~29 0.975
All over 15,000 MCF l~884 0.935
"Note: Rates do not include purchased gas adjustment and sales tax, where applicable
"(2) Outside City Limits
Monthly
Consumption
^ ...... * ~ August 1
· ':, n n c~ 2004 -
f,,I,, '~ July 31,
'~nn,4 2005
First 1 MCF $-9-,7-32$10.218
(Minimum Bill)
Next 2 MCF ~ 5.209
Next 7 MCF 4 .... 4.891
Next 40 MCF 3.'!,0! 3.571
Next 150 MCF 1.41! 1.481
Next 300 MCF !.2~ 1.329
Next 500 MCF 1.00.?.~ 1.142
Next 14,000 MCF O~g4 1.012
All over 15,000 MCF ~ 0.935
"Note: Rates do not include purchased gas adjustment and sales tax, where applicable
"(e) PURCHASED GAS ADJUSTMENT. The rates in subsections (a), (b), (c), and (d)
of this section are subject to gas cost adjustments as follows: Rates will be adjusted
monthly by the City following the receipt of notice of the cost of gas from the supplier to
pass on to the consumer the full amount of such cost adjusted for pressure base and
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gas loss & unaccounted-for factors. Additional fees and charges paid to the supplier,
which are necessary for the City to receive the gas, shall be included in the cost of gas.
All general rate customers, who consume over 15,000 Mcr in one month, and who
receive gas from the City's distribution system at the same pressure base at which the
City receives the gas from its supplier (14.65 psi), shall be billed 2.05% less per Mcr
for purchased gas adjustment than the General Customer Rate Schedule.
"(f) INTERRUPTIONS. Deliveries of gas to Commercial or Industrial customers may be
interrupted or curtailed in case of shortage, or threatened shortage, of gas supply from
any cause whatsoever, to conserve gas for residential and other human need
customers served hereunder, according to all mandatory orders of governmental
agencies having jurisdiction."
SECTION 4. The gas rates established in Section 3 of this ordinance shall take effect and
be applied against all service provided on or after the first day of August, 2004~
SECTION 5. Section 55-100 of the Code of Ordinances is amended to include the
classification of customers and schedule of wastewater rates, which shall read as follows:
"Sec. 55-100. Schedule.
"(a) The monthly charge to be paid by users of sewer service furnished by the City's
municipal sewer system, except as otherwise provided in Articles VII and Xl of Chapter
55, shall be based on the amount of water used by the user according to the following
rates:
Classification
^ ...... + August
1,2003 1, 2004
e to July
~"~" ~" 31 2005
207.
Inside City
Limits
$ !3.557 $15.087
One-family
minimum
monthly
charge (first
2,000
gallons)
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Classification
Inside City
Limits
One-family
per 1,000
gallons over
2,000
Inside City
Limits
One-family
maximum
monthly
charge (Up
to 25,000
gallons)
Outside City
Limits
One-family
minimum
monthly
charge (first
2,000
gallons)
Outside City
Limits
One-family
per 1,000
gallons over
2,000
2.74!
27.!!5
August
1, 20O4
to July
31, 2005
3.050
85.237
28.470
5.757
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Classification
Outside City
Limits
One-family
maximum
monthly
charge (Up
to 25,000
gallons)
Inside City
Limits
Commercial
minimum
monthly
charge (first
2,000
gallons)
Inside City
Limits
Commercial
per 1,000
gallons over
2,000
Outside City
Limits
Commercial
minimum
monthly
charge (first
2,000
gallons)
2004
20.~0,4.
August
1,2004
to July
31,2005
160.923
21.634
2.302
43.269
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Classification
2OO~,
AuRust
1,2004
to July
31,2005
Outside City
Limits
4.607
Commercial
per1,000
gallons over
2,000
"(b) The amount of water used to compute the monthly bills to one family residential
customers shall be computed on the basis of the "winter average" or "interim average"
that is calculated under this subsection.
(1) Definitions
a. Winter Averaging Wastewater Charge Period - the
period of water and wastewater service during the three
complete consecutive reading periods commencing on or
after December 1 of each year. Using the three complete
consecutive reading periods, the City shall establish monthly
wastewater service charges for customers based upon their
average monthly water consumption. The customer must
receive wastewater service at one location dudng the three
consecutive reading periods in order to establish a "winter
average".
b. Winter Average -- The monthly wastewater usage established
by the City of Corpus Christi during the "winter averaging
wastewater charge period". This usage is the basis for monthly
billings which apply to service before and including July 31 of each
year. Billings which apply to service after July 31 will reflect
wastewater usages based on the previous "winter averaging
wastewater charge period".
c. Interim Average -- The monthly wastewater usage
established by the City for individual customers who have
not established a "winter average". The "interim average"
shall be recalculated each year based on the total "winter
average" consumption of all customers subject to winter
averaging divided by the number of winter averaging
customers, and shall be the basis for monthly billings until a
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"winter average" as defined in subsection (b)(1)b. of this
section is established for the individual customer.
d. Service Area -- the geographic region served by the
City's wastewater system.
(2) Winter Average Criteria
a. "Winter Average" charges shall apply to one-family
residential customers only.
b. The "winter average" shall be based on a customer's
average water consumption for three complete consecutive
reading periods commencing with the customer's first
reading period on or after December 1 of each year.
c. The following method will be used to calculate a
customer's "winter average".
1. Add the three winter months water
consumption to get total water consumption.
"2. Divide three month usage amount by 3 to
get winter average usage. Such winter
average usage shall be limited to a maximum
of 25,000 gallons.
"d. Using the winter average usage, apply the
applicable rates established in subsection (a) of this
section to calculate the customer's wastewater bill for
each month until a new average is established (or
rates are changed.
"e. New and Relocating Customers; Adjustments
"1. Customers new to the service area, who
have not established a "winter average", shall
be billed at the "interim average" rate.
"2. Customers who are relocating within the
service area, who established a "winter
average" at their previous address, shall be
billed at the "intedm average" rate or their
"winter average" rate at the previous address,
whichever is less.
"3. Customers who are relocating within the
service, area, who have not established a
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"winter average" at their previous address,
shall be billed at the "interim average" rate.
"4. When a customer experiences a
substantial increase in water or wastewater
usage from hidden water leaks in the plumbing
system during the winter average charge
period, and if the customer can produce proof
of repairs, the Director of Finance or the
Director's designee may adjust the wastewater
bill.
"(3) Administrative change in rates.
"a. Annually the City Manager shall calculate a~=rued-base
revenues from single-family residential wastewater
customers. Base revenues shall equal a three-year moving
average of actual revenues from single-family residential
wastewater customers, with each year's revenue adjusted
for all actual rate increases, which were implemented in
subsequent years. For this purpose, a year shall run from
June 1 through May 31.
"b The City Manager shall annually, based upon the Winter
Average wastewater usage determined during the Winter
Averaging Wastewater Charge Period, adjust the rate in the
new fiscal year applied to each customer's winter average or
interim average so that the Adjusted Rate will produce an
amount equal to the base revenues.
"(c) The rates established in subsection (a) of this section are based upon water
consumption for wastewater service customers with wastewater characteristics of 562
parts per million or less by weight of chemical oxygen demand index, 250 parts per
million or less by weight of biochemical oxygen demand index, and 250 parts per million
or less by weight of suspended solids index. If the wastewater characteristics exceed
any of these parameters shall pay an additional abnormal wastewater surcharges as
provided in Section 55-148."
SECTION 6. The wastewater rates established in Section 5 of this ordinance shall take
effect and be applied against all service provided on or after the first day of August, 2004.
SECTION 7. Section 55-148 of the Code of Ordinances is amended to include the
schedule of values used to determine the abnormal wastewater surcharges. Section 55-
148(a)(6) and (8) shall read as follows:
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"Sec. 55-148. Fees.
"(a) Abnormal wastewater surcharge.
-(6)
24
Computations of each surcharge, as applicable, shall be based on
the following:
"S = V x 8.34 x X x (COD-562)
"S = V x 8.34 x Y x (BOD-250)
"S = V x 8.34 x Z x (TSS-250)
"S = Surcharge in dollars for the billing period.
'¥ = Water consumption in millions of gallons dudng the billing period.
"8.34 = Weight of water in pounds per gallon.
"X = Unit charge in dollars per pound for COD as established subdivision
(8) of this subsection.
"Y = Unit charge in dollars per pound for BOD as established in
subdivision (8) of this subsection.
"Z = Unit charge in dollars per pound for TSS as established in subdivision
(8) of this subsection.
"COD = Chemical oxygen demand strength index in parts per million by
weight, or mg/l.
"BOD = Five-day biochemical oxygen demand strength index in parts per
million by weight, or rog/i.
"TSS = Total suspended solids strength index in parts per million by
weight, or mg/l.
"250 = Normal BOD and TSS strength in parts per million by weight, or
mg/l.
"562 = Normal COD strength in parts per million by weight, or mg/l.
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"(8)
The values for X, Y, and Z used in subdivision (6) of this subsection to
determine the abnormal wastewater surcharge are:"
Value
~ ...... * August
1,-~nn~ 1,2004
t~ to
~' '~" '~ July 31
onn~ 2005
X (unit
charge in
dollars per
pound of
COD)
· n nnnn $0.0000
Y (unit
charge in
dollars per
pound of
BOD)
n ,~ -~-r,~ 0.2490
Z (unit
charge in
dollars per
pound of
TSS)
0.!704 0.1789
SECTION 8. The values used to determine the abnormal wastewater surcharges
established in Section 7 of this ordinance shall take effect and be applied against all
service provided on or after the first day of August., 2004.
SECTION 9. 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 10. 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 Chdsti.
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That the foregoing ordinance was read for the first time and passed to its second
reading on this the '~ day of /~ , 2004, by the following vote:
Samuel L. Neal, Jr. (~x.~(-~ Bill Kelly
Brent Chesney ~.~------------------~L~ ~-~- Rex A. Kinnison
Javier D. Colmenero (~L,~ Jesse Noyola
Melody Cooper ~C,~. Mark Scott
Henry Garrett
That the foregoing ordirc~nce was read for the second time and passed finally on this
the ,.~'7'~'' day of ~,~-. , 2004 by the following vote:
Samuel L. Neal, Jr. (~j~: .
Brent Chesney
Javier D. Colmenero
Melody Cooper
Henry Garrett
PASSED AND APPROVED, this the ~.-~l~day of
City Secretary
APPROVED: J~ day of July, 2004:
Lisa Aguilar ~
Assistant Cib/Attorney
for City Attorney
Bill Kelly
Rex A. Kinnison
Jesse Noyola
Mark Scott
Samuel L. Neal, Jr.
Mayor, The City of Corpus Christi
,2004.
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PUBLISHER'S AFFIDAVIT
State of Texas
County of Nueces
SS:
CITY OF CORPUS CHRIST1
Ad # 4964301
PO #
Before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public, this day personally came Diana
Hinoiosa, who being first duly sworn, according to law, says that she is Credit
Manager of the Corpus Christi Caller-Times, a daily newspaper published at
Corpus Christi in said City 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, which the annexed
is a true copy, was inserted in the Corpus Christi Calle~Times and on the World
Wide Web on the Caller-Times Interactive on the 2ND day(s) of AUGUST, 2004.
$61.75
TWO (2) Time(s)
Credit Manager
Subscribed and sworn to me on the date of
AUGUST 03, 2004.
Notary Public, Nueces County, Texas
ROSA MARIA FLORES
Print or Type Name of Notary Public
My commission expires on 04/23/05.
Corpus Chdsti Caller-'l'lmee, Monday, Augusl 2, 2004/~
O~l~ances. City of
Corpua Chrlatl,
Ct~p~r ~,
m~r~ng water.
ar~l wa~ewat~- ~
and
City Council ol
of Corpu~ Chdefl on
July 27, 2004.