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AMENDING THE CODE OF ORDINANCES, CITY OF CORPUS
CHRISTI, CHAPTER 55, UTILITIES, REGARDING WATER, GAS AND
WASTEWATER RATES AND FEES; 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
(Inches)
August 1,
2007 to
July 31,
August 1,
2008 to
July 31,
2008
2009
Residential
5/8" - 3/4"
$-2
$8.55
Commercial
518" - 314"
10.972
12.33
Residential &
Commercial
1"
17.512
18.50
1-112"
29.120
30.84
2"
45.776
61.67
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Meter Size
(Inches)
Aug-ust 1,
August 1,
2007 to
2008 to
July 31,
July 31,
2008
2009
3"
$164.251
$98.67
518"-314"
4"
187.393
197.34
6"
281.558
308.35
5/8" - 3/4"
8" and larger
/122.911
616.70
Residential &
Commercial
Large
Volume
1"
35.935
Any size
14,257,771
16 028.00
59.773
37.00
"2. Outside City Limits
Meter Size
August 1,
August 1,
2007 to
2008 to
July 31,
July 31,
2008
2009
Residential
518"-314"
$'!6.112
$ 10.26
Commercial
5/8" - 3/4"
22.901
14.80
Residential &
Commercial
1"
35.935
22.20
1-1/2"
59.773
37.00
2"
92464
74.00
3"
329.417
118.41
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Meter Size
August 1,
August 1,
2007 to
2008 to
July 31,
July 31,
2008
2009
4"
$375.721
$236.81
Minimum monthly service
charge for Public Agency for
Resale Untreated Water
without a raw water supply
contract executed after
January 1, 19971
6"
564.07
370.02
Minimum monthly service
charge, industrial
340479
8" and larger
816.775
740.04
11.337
Large
Volume
Any size
23,790.51-0
26,744.00
"b. Untreated Water Customers
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August 1,
August 1,
2007 to
July 31,
2008 to
July 31,
2008
2009
Minimum monthly service
charge, water districts/
municipalities with raw water
supply contracts executed after
January 1, 1997
U49479
$382.631
Minimum monthly service
charge for Public Agency for
Resale Untreated Water
without a raw water supply
contract executed after
January 1, 19971
$207.307
$233.040
Minimum monthly service
charge, industrial
340479
382.631
Minimum monthly service
charge, domestic
11.337
12.744
Minimum annual service
charge, domestic
113.156
127.540
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"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 $207.3071
$233.040 the customer shall be billed 1207.307 $233.040 unless a valid water supply
contract between the customer and City that was executed prior to January 1, 1997,
provides for a minimum annual payment. If a valid water supply contract between the
customer and City executed prior to August 1, 2000, provides for a minimum annual
payment, the customer shall pay the minimum annual payment under the contract.
"(2) Monthly Volume Charges Per 1,000 Gallons
"a. Residential Rate
"1. Inside City Limits
11*
14 . . .
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August 1,
2007
to
July 31,
2008
First 2,000
Mi^
GalIon-s
i
7
13,000
Gallons
t
3.708
15,000
Gallon
Next
/1.538
20,000
Gallons
Over
5.507
59; A90
Gallons
11*
14 . . .
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*Use the Minimum Charges in Subsection (a)(1).
"2. Outside City Limits
August 1,
2007
t$
July 31,
2008
First 2,000
Gallons
MininiT
Next
13,000
Gallons
Next
15,000
Gallons
5.507
Next
20,000
Gallons
5.507
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August 1,
2008 to July
31, 2009
First 2,000 Gallons
Minimum*
Next 4,000 Gallons
2.795
Next 4,000 Gallons
3.493
Next 5,000 Gallons
4.017
Next 15,000 Gallons
4.891
Next 20,000 Gallons
5.939
Next 50,000 Gallons
6.463
Over 100,000 Gallons
6.987
*Use the Minimum Charges in Subsection (a)(1).
"2. Outside City Limits
August 1,
2007
t$
July 31,
2008
First 2,000
Gallons
MininiT
Next
13,000
Gallons
Next
15,000
Gallons
5.507
Next
20,000
Gallons
5.507
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Over
50; 000
Gallons
5.507
11*
*Use the Minimum Charges in Subsection (a) (1).
"b. Commercial Rate
"1. Inside City Limits
August 1,
2008 to July
31, 2009
2008
First 2,000 Gallons
Minimum*
2908
2009
Next 4,000 Gallons
1.501
Mie
Minimum*
Next 4,000 Gallons
1.876
$3.493.
Next 5,000 Gallons
2.157
Next 15,000 Gallons
2.626
Next 20,000 Gallons
3.189
Next 50,000 Gallons
3.471
Over 100,000 Gallons
3.752
*Use the Minimum Charges in Subsection (a) (1).
"b. Commercial Rate
"1. Inside City Limits
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August 1,
August 1,
2007
2008
to
July 31,
to
July 31,
2908
2009
First 2,000
Gallons
Mie
Minimum*
Over 2,000
$3.493.
Gallons
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Next--13-� 00
Gal loRs
7
August 1,
Next -861000
Gaon&
-2.338
2008
Next -9001000
Gallons
--17--76
First 2,000 Gallons
Over 1,000,000
Gallons
1.391
Over 2,000 Gallons
"* Use the Minimum Charges in Subsection (a)(1).
"2. Outside City Limits
"* Use the Minimum Charges in Subsection (a)(1).
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August 1,
2007
to
July 31,
August 1,
2008
to
July 31,
2008
2009
First 2,000 Gallons
Min-imucat
Minimum*
Over 2,000 Gallons
$1.876
0
Next 85,000 Gallons
'1.867
3.781
2.063
"* Use the Minimum Charges in Subsection (a)(1).
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"c. Reserved"
"d. PublioAgenwfof Resale Treated Water Rates
"1. Treated water rates purchased gency for resale where
the water is taken and metered at the site of treatment are hereby set as
follows:
"* Use the Minimum Charges in Subsection (a)(1).
2. Treated water rates purchased for resale where the water is delivered
to the resale entity through City facilities are hereby set as follows;
First 2,000 Gallons
Minimum*
Over 2,000 Gallons
$1.506
"* 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
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August 1,
August 1,
2007
to
July 31,
2008
to
July 31,
2008
2009
First 2,000 Gallons
Mie
Minimum*
Over 2,000 Gallons
$.877
Next 13,000 Gallons
$-2.538
2.270
1.706
Next 9,000,000 Gallons
1.347
Over 10,000,000 Gallon,
0.8-76
"* Use the Minimum Charges in Subsection (a)(1).
2. Treated water rates purchased for resale where the water is delivered
to the resale entity through City facilities are hereby set as follows;
First 2,000 Gallons
Minimum*
Over 2,000 Gallons
$1.506
"* 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
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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
"* Use the Minimum Charges in Subsection (a)(1).
"2. Outside City Limits
August 1,
August 1,
2007 to
2008 to
July 31,
July 31,
2008
2009
First 10,000,000
Gallons
First 10,000,000
Gallons
Via}
Minimum*
Each Additional
1,000 Gallon
Each Additional
1,000 Gallon
$-02
$1.647
"* Use the Minimum Charges in Subsection (a)(1).
"2. Outside City Limits
"* 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).
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August 1,
August 1,
2007
2008
to
July 31,
to
July 31,
2008
2009
First 10,000,000
Gallons
Mi
Minimum*
Each Additional
1,000 Gallon
$4'.348
$ 1.506
"* 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).
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"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
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
interfund 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.
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"(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 offsetting
revenues and the difference between projected and actual volume of water sold.
Use of overcollections to create and maintain a reserve to level out large fluctuations
in raw water charges is authorized. Apply any remaining 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.
"(12) Where allowed by contract, include a Rate of Return applied to the portion
of fund balance applicable to Raw Water based on the previous calendar year's
average of the 10 -year Federal Treasury Bill rate."
"(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 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.
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"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 water rates established in Section 1 of this ordinance shall take effect
and be applied against all service provided on or after the first day of August 2008.
SECTION 3. Article 111, Water Rates and Charges, Chapter 55, Code of Ordinances, is
amended by adding a new Section 55-54 and reserving Sections 55-55 — 55-59, to read
as follows:
"Chapter 55 UTILITIES
"ARTICLE III. WATER RATES AND CHARGES
"Sec. 55-54. Water Utilities Laboratory Charges.
(a) The following fees apply to tests performed at the City's Water Utilities Laboratory for
other government agencies and private parties:
Parameter
Fee
Total Coliform
$15.00
Fecal Streptococcus
$20.00
Fecal Coliform
$20.00
Hexane Extractable Material
$50.00
(HEM)
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Total Organic Carbon
$35.00
Specific Ultra -Violet
$35.00
Absorption (SUVA)
Biochemical Oxygen
$30.00
Demand (BOD)
Carbonacious Biochemical
$32.00
Oxygen Demand (CBOD)
Total Suspended Solids
$15.00
(TSS)
Total Dissolved Solids
$20.00
(TDS1
Total Kjeldahl Nitrogen
$35.00
(TKN)
Total Nitrate -- Nitrogen
$25.00
Total Ammonia — Nitrogen
$20.00
Total Phosphorus
$25.00
Dissolved Phosphorus
$27.00
(b) If a test or laboratory fee is requested that is not listed in subsection (a) of this
section, the Water Utilities Laboratory should charge a fee that recovers the City's labor,
material, and equipment costs.
(c) The City Manager may waive fees in the interest of public safety or as the City's
contribution to a project in which the City is involved.
Ea:
_este
"Secs. 55 54 55-55--55-59. Reserved.
SECTION 4. The fees 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 2008.
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SECTION 5. 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 Cycle 11 through April Cycle 10)
"Note: Rates do not include purchased gas adjustment and sales tax, where applicable
"b. Summer rates (from April Cycle 11 through November Cycle 10)
Rate per MCF
Monthly Consumption
Monthly Consumption
August 1, 2007 July 31, 2008
August 1, 2008 — July 31, 2009
Meter Charge
$1.00
First 1 MCF
(Minimum Bill)
9.260
Next 2 MCF
5.195
Next 7 MCF
3.003
Next 5 MCF
2.621
Next 35 MCF
2.833
All over 50 MCF
2.014
"Note: Rates do not include purchased gas adjustment and sales tax, where applicable
"b. Summer rates (from April Cycle 11 through November Cycle 10)
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Rate per MCF
Monthly Consumption
August 1, 2007
July 31, 2008
August 1, 2008 — July 31, 2009
Meter Charge
$1.00
First 1 MCF
(Minimum Bill)
9.260
Next 2 MCF
5.195
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Next 5 MCF
3.003
Next 2 MCF
1.507
Next 28 MCF
1.469
All over 38 MCF
1.339
"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-1,2-00-7---July-3-12008,
August 1, 2008 — July 31, 2009
Monthly Consumption
Meter Charge
$1.25
First 1 MCF
(Minimum Bill)
11.426
Next 2 MCF
5.824
Next 7 MCF
3.319
Next 40 MCF
3.132
All over 50 MCF
2.184
"Note: Rates do not include purchased gas adjustment and sales tax, where applicable
"b. Summer rates (from April Cycle 11 through November Cycle 10)
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Rate per MCF
Monthly Consumption
August 1, 2007 July 31, 2008
August 1, 2008 —July 31, 2009
Meter Charge
$1.25
First 1 MCF
(Minimum Bill)
11.426
Next 2 MCF
5.824
Next 5 MCF
3.319
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Next 30 MCF
1.656
All over 38 MCF
1.424
"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
"Note: Rates do not include purchased gas adjustment and sales tax, where applicable
"(2) Outside City Limits
Rate per MCF
Monthly Consumption
A et 1, 2007 July 3-11-,-2-008
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Rate per MCF
Monthly Consumption
August 1, 2007 July 31, 2008
August 1, 2008 - July 31, 2009
Meter Charge
3-$12.02
First 1 MCF
(Minimum Bill)
9.260
Next 2 MCF
5.195
Next 7 MCF
4.853
Next 40 MCF
4.668
Next 50 MCF
2.014
Next 100 MCF
1.679
Next 100 MCF
1.466
Next 700 MCF
1.403
Next 1,000 MCF
1.212
Next 13,000 MCF
1.090
All over 15,000 MCF
1.044
"Note: Rates do not include purchased gas adjustment and sales tax, where applicable
"(2) Outside City Limits
Rate per MCF
Monthly Consumption
A et 1, 2007 July 3-11-,-2-008
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"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 Department of the City):
"(1) Inside City Limits
August 1, 2008 — July 31, 2009
Monthly Consumption
Meter Charge
$40,1-6-$15.02
First 1 MCF
(Minimum Bill)
11.426
Next 2 MCF
5.824
Next 7 MCF
5.469
Next 40 MCF
5.257
Next 50 MCF
2.184
Next 100 MCF
1.572
Next 100 MCF
2.099
Next 700 MCF
1.485
Next 1,000 MCF
1.212
Next 13,000 MCF
1.090
All over 15,000 MCF
1.044
"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 Department of the City):
"(1) Inside City Limits
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Rate per MCF
Monthly Consumption
August 1, 2007 July 31, 2008
August 1, 2008 — July 31, 2009
Meter Charge
$1.00
First 1 MCF
15.384
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(Minimum Bill)
Rate per MCF
Next 2 MCF
13.912
Next 7 MCF
6.605
Next 30 MCF
2.833
All over 40 MCF
2.014
"Note: Rates do not include purchased gas adjustment and sales tax, where applicable
"(2) Outside City Limits
"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 Department, who request in writing to be billed in
the summer months on the Summer Incentive Gas Rate Schedule starting with Cycle 11
in April and ending with the billing Cycle 10 in November shall be billed on the following
rate schedule):
"(1) Inside City Limits
Rate per MCF
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Rate per MCF
Monthly Consumption
August 1, 2007 July 31, 2008
August 1, 2008 — July 31, 2009
Meter Charge
$1.25
First 1 MCF
(Minimum Bill)
18.479
Next 2 MCF
15.892
Next 7 MCF
7.489
Next 30 MCF
3.132
All over 40 MCF
2.184
"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 Department, who request in writing to be billed in
the summer months on the Summer Incentive Gas Rate Schedule starting with Cycle 11
in April and ending with the billing Cycle 10 in November shall be billed on the following
rate schedule):
"(1) Inside City Limits
Rate per MCF
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Monthly
Consumption
August 1, 2007 July 31, 2008
August 1, 2008 — July 31, 2009
Meter Charge
$8.1.3-$12.02
First 1 MCF
(Minimum Bill)
9.259
Next 2 MCF
5.194
Next 7 MCF
4.853
Next 40 MCF
3.551
Next 150 MCF
1.507
Next 300 MCF
1.403
Next 500 MCF
1.212
Next 14,000 MCF
1.090
All over 15,000 MCF
1.044
"Note: Rates do not include purchased gas adjustment and sales tax, where applicable.
"(2) Outside City Limits
Monthly
Consumption
August 1, 2007 July 31, 2008
August 1, 2008 — July 31, 2009
Meter Charge
$10 6
$15.02
First 1 MCF
(Minimum Bill)
11.426
Next 2 MCF
5.824
Next 7 MCF
5.469
Next 40 MCF
3.993
Next 150 MCF
1.656
Next 300 MCF
1.485
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Next 500 MCF
1.276
Next 14,000 MCF
1.131
All over 15,000 MCF
1.044
"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
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 MCF 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 MCF
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 6. The gas 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 2008.
SECTION 7. 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 X1 of Chapter
55, shall be based on the amount of water used by the user according to the following
rates:
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Classification
August 1,
August 1,
2007 to
July 31,
2008 to
July 31,,
2008
2009
Inside City Limits
One -family minimum
monthly charge (first
2,000 gallons)
$-986
$ 18.879
Inside City Limits
One -family per 1,000
gallons over 2,000
$3.8232
$3.817
Inside City Limits
One -family maximum
monthly charge (Up to
25,000 gallons)
90.340
106.67
Outside City Limits
One -family minimum
monthly charge (first
2,000 gallons)
33.668
23.599
Outside City Limits
One -family per 1,000
gallons over 2,000
6:-898
7.634
Outside City Limits
One -family maximum
monthly charge (Up to
25,000 gallons)
$190.308
$199.181
Inside City Limits
Commercial minimum
monthly charge (first
2,000 gallons)
25.583
26.862
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Classification
August 1,
August 1,
24474o
2008 to
July 31,
July 31,
2008
2009
Inside City Limits
Commercial per 1,000
gallons over 2,000
2.720
2.856
Outside City Limits
Commercial minimum
monthly charge (first
2,000 gallons)
54,168
33.578
Outside City Limits
Commercial per 1,000
gallons over 2,000
5.447
$5.718
"(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 during 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".
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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 "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 "interim average" rate or their "winter average" rate at
the previous address, whichever is Tess.
"3. Customers who are relocating within the service, area, who
have not established a "winter average" at their previous address,
shall be billed at the "interim average" rate.
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"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 base revenues from single-
family residential wastewater customers. Base revenues shall equal the
prior year's actual revenues from single-family residential wastewater
customers, adjusted for 1 subsequent actual rate increases, and for any
increase in the single-family residential wastewater customer base. 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 8. The wastewater rates 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 2008.
SECTION 9. 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:
"Sec. 55-148. Fees.
"(a) Abnormal wastewater surcharge.
*
"(6) 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)
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"S = V x 8.34 x Z x (TSS -250)
"S = Surcharge in dollars for the billing period.
"V = Water consumption in millions of gallons during 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/I.
"BOD = Five-day biochemical oxygen demand strength index in parts per
million by weight, or mg/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/i.
"562 = Normal COD strength in parts per million by weight, or mg/I.
*
*
*
*
"(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, 2007
August
1, 2008
to
to
July 31,
July 31,
2003
2009
X (unit charge in dollars
per pound of COD)
$0:0000
$0.0000
Y (unit charge in dollars
per pound of BOD)
0.2911
0.3091
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Z (unit charge in dollars
per pound of TSS)
0.2113
0.2219
SECTION 10. The values used to determine the abnormal wastewater surcharges
established in Section 9 of this ordinance shall take effect and be applied against all
service provided on or after the first day of August 2008.
SECTION 11. 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 12. 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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Henry Garrett
Melody Cooper
Larry Elizondo, Sr.
Mike Hummel)
Bill Kelly
ce was read for th firs time and passed to its second
'day of ,fr, 2008, by the following vote:
Priscilla G. Leal Nd
John E. Marez
Nelda Martinez
Michael McCutchon
That the foregoing ord
reading on this the Iin
That t e f going ordinan
the day of
Henry Garrett
Melody Cooper
Larry Elizondo, Sr.
Mike Hummel)
Bill Kelly
read for the second time and passed finally on this
, 2008, by the following vote:
Priscilla G. Leal
John E. Marez
Nelda Martinez
Michael McCutchon
PASSED AND APPROVED, this the
ATTEST:
Armando Chapa
City Secretary
Approved as to form: July 16, 2008
By:
day of
140
, 2008.
Henry Gar -tt
Mayor
Lisa Aguilar; Assistant City Attorney for City Attorney
027781
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EFFECTIVE DATE
OiLthl
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State of Texas
County of Nueces
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PUBLISHER'S AFFIDAVIT
C1843b
CITY OF' CORPUS CHRISTI
Ad # 5867506
PO #
Before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public, this day personally came
JENNIFER HOBBS, who being first duly sworn, according to law, says that she
is LEGAL SALES REPRESENATIVE AND EMPLOYEE OF THE PUBLISHER,
namely, 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 ORDI NANCE NO. 0277 which the
armexed is a true copy, was inserted in the Corpus Christi Caller -Times on the
7/28/2008, 7/28/2008.
$ 347.92
ITime(s)
On this&4' `-day of
is a true and an exact cop m
GWENN 1 MEDINA
MY COMMISSION EXPIRES
August 2, 2008
i
i
►pU I certify that the attached document
ublisher.
N i tart' Public, State of Texas
NOTICE OF
PASSAGE OF ORDI-
NANCE NO. 027779
Amending the Codes
of Ordinances, Chap-
ter 21.,.'Article IV,
Section 21-40, by re-
vising solid waste
fesOnrGe recovery
fees enacting a'. cart
delivery fee; providing
an effective date; pro-
viding forpublication;
and: providing for pen-
alties. This ordinance'
was passed and ap-
proved by tt'w City
Council of the City of
Corpus .Christi .on its
second reading on
July 22, 2008. This or-
dinance is effective
August1,2008. >...
/s/Armando Chapa
City Secretary
City of Corpus Christi
NOTICE OF
PASSAGE OF ORDI-
NANCE NO.027780
Amending the Code of
Ordinances, Chapter
2, Section. 2-79 "Fees",
by repealing the annu-
al nonresident :library
fee; providing for li-
brary photocopy: fee of
$0.15 per page, and
reinstating a library
collection tee of $10
for accounts referred
to collection; providing
for an effective date;
and providing for publi-
cation. This ordinance
was passed and ap-
proved 'bythe City
Councilof the City of
Corpus Christi on its
second reading on
'July 22, 2008. This or-
dinance fs: effective
August1, 2008.
/s/Armando Chapa
City Secretary
City of Corpus Christi
July 28, 2008 •
NOTICE OF
PASSAGE OF ORDI-
NANCE NO, 027781
Amending the Code of
Ordinances£, City: of
Corpus Christi, Chap-
ter •55r'`Utilities,
regarding: Water, :Gas
and Wastewater rates
and fees; providing for
an effective date; and
providing for publica-
tion. This ordinance
was passed and ap-
proved by the City
Council of the City of
Corpus Christi on its
second reading on
July 22, 2008. This or-
dinance is effective
August 1, 2008.
/sl Armando Chapa
City Secretary
City of Corpus Christi
NOTICE OF
PASSAGE OF ORDI-
NANCE NO. 027782
Amending the Code of
Ordinances, Chapter
35, Article V, Section
35-117, Entitled
"Annual Well
Inspections", by revis-
ing the' fees; providing
for aneffective date;
providing' for publica-
tion and providing for
penalties: 'This - ordi-
nance was passed
and approved by the
City Council of the City
of Corpus Christi on Its,
second readinon
July 22, 2008. This or-
dinance is. effective
August 1, 2008.
/s/ Armando Chapa
City Secretary
City of Corpus Christi