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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,
20084o
July 31,
August 1,
2009 to
July 31,
2009
2010
Residential
5/8" - 3/4"
$ 8.55
$8.55
Commercial
5/8" - 3/4"
12.33
12.33
Residential &
Commercial
1"
18.50
18.50
1-1/2"
30.84
30.84
2"
61.67
61.67
3"
$98-67
$98.67
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Meter Size
(Inches)
August 1,
August 1,
2008-te
July 31,
2009 to
July 31,
2000
2010
4"
197.34
197.34
5/8" - 3/4"
$40.26
6"
308.35
308.35
8" and larger
60
616.70
14.80
Large
Volume
Residential &
Commercial
Any size
16,028.00
16,028.00
22.20
"2. Outside City Limits
Meter Size
August 1,
August 1,
2008 to
July 31,
2009 to
July 31,
2009
2010
Residential
5/8" - 3/4"
$40.26
$ 10.26
Commercial
5/8" - 3/4"
14.80
14.80
Residential &
Commercial
1"
22.20
22.20
1-1/2"
37.00
37.01
2"
74-00
74.00
3"
118.11
118.40
4"
$236.81
$236.81
6"
370-02
370.02
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Meter Size
August 1,
August 1,
2006-te
July 31,
2009 to
July 31,
2099
2010
Minimum monthly service
charge, industrial
8" and larger
710.01
740.04
Minimum annual service
charge, domestic
127.540
Large
Volume
Any size
26,711.00
26,744.00
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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 $233.040
the customer shall be billed $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
"b. Untreated Water Customers
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August 1,
2908 2009
to
July 31,
2009-2010
Minimum monthly service
charge, water districts/
municipalities with raw water
supply contracts executed after
January 1, 1997
$382.631
Minimum monthly service
charge for Public Agency for
Resale Untreated Water
without a raw water supply
contract executed after
January 1, 19971
$233.040
Minimum monthly service
charge, industrial
382.631
Minimum monthly service
charge, domestic
12.744
Minimum annual service
charge, domestic
127.540
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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
se the Minimum Charges in Subsection (a)(1).
"2. Outside City Limits
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August -1,
2008 to JuIy
31, 2000
August 1,
2009 to July
31, 2010
First 2,000 Gallons
Minimum*
Next 4,000 Gallons
2.795
2.898
Next 4,000 Gallons
3.493
3.623
Next 5,000 Gallons
4.017
4.166
Next 15,000 Gallons
4.891
5.072
Next 20,000 Gallons
57939
6.159
Next 50,000 Gallons
6A63
6.703
Over 100,000 Gallons
6.987
7.246
se the Minimum Charges in Subsection (a)(1).
"2. Outside City Limits
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*Use the Minimum Charges in Subsection (a) (1).
"b. Commercial Rate
"1. Inside City Limits
August 1,
2008 2009
to July 31,
2009 2010
2008
2009
First 2,000 Gallons
Minimum*
Next 4,000 Gallons
1.501
July31,
1.564
2009
2010
Next 4,000 Gallons
1.876
1.955
Next 5,000 Gallons
2.157
2.248
Next 15,000 Gallons
2.626
2.737
Next 20,000 Gallons
3489
3.324
Next 50,000 Gallons
3.171
3.617
Over 100,000 Gallons
3.752
3.910
*Use the Minimum Charges in Subsection (a) (1).
"b. Commercial Rate
"1. Inside City Limits
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August 1,
August 1,.
2008
2009
to
to
July31,
July31,
2009
2010
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First 2,000
Gallons
Minimum*
Minimum*
-1,
2007
to
July 31,
Over2,000
Gallons
$3:493
$3.623
2010
Use the Minimum Charges in Subsection (a)(1).
"2. Outside City Limits
Use the Minimum Charges in Subsection (a)(1).
"c. Reserved"
"d. Resale Treated Water Rates
"1. Treated water rates purchased for resale where the water is taken and
metered at the site of treatment are hereby set as follows:
August
August 1,
-1,
2007
to
July 31,
2009
to
July 31,
2008
2010
First 2,000 Gallons
First 2,000 Gallons
Minimum*
Minimum*
Over 2,000 Gallons
Over 2,000 Gallons
$1.876
$1.955
Use the Minimum Charges in Subsection (a)(1).
"c. Reserved"
"d. Resale Treated Water Rates
"1. Treated water rates purchased 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
$4.506
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August'
2007
to
July 31,
August 1,
2009
to
July 31,
2008
2010
First 2,000 Gallons
Minimum*
Minimum*
Over 2,000 Gallons
$.87-7
$.918
"* 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
$4.506
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$1.435
"* 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
Use the Minimum Charges in Subsection (a)(1).
"2. Outside City Limits
August 1
August 1,
2008 to
July 31,
2009 to
July 31,
2009
2010
First 10,000,000
Gallons
First 10,000,000
Gallons
MilliMUITI
Minimum*
Each Additional
1,000 Gallon
Each Additional
1,000 Gallon
$ 1.647
$1.940
Use the Minimum Charges in Subsection (a)(1).
"2. Outside City Limits
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August -17
2008
to
July 31,
August 1,
2009
to
July 31,
2009
2010
First 10,000,000
Gallons
Minimum*
Minimum*
Each Additional
1,000 Gallon
$ 1.506
$A664
$1.435
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"* 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), 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 costs not more than one
hundred thousand dollars ($100,000.00) shall be charged in the year in
which it is acquired.
"b. The expense of acquiring a capital item that costs more than one
hundred thousand dollars ($100,000.00) 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
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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.
"(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)
"(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.
"(11) Include funds necessary to collect 1.35 times coverage on current annual
debt service in order to improve the financial position and bond ratings of the
City's water fund.
"(12) Include funds necessary to establish and maintain an Operating Reserve
fund with a target amount of 25% (or 3 months) of annual operating expenses for
the fiscal year.
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"(13) Include funds necessary to establish and operate a Water Capital
Reserve fund with a target amount of 2% of the respective annual water Capital
Improvements Program for the fiscal year or $2,000,000 (whichever is greater).
"(14) The minimum operating or capital reserves amounts are intended to provide
for unplanned, unbudgeted expenses and revenue shortfalls, and will not be
used for routine expenses.
"(15) At fiscal year end, determine the amount of over or under collections that
have resulted from difference between budgeted and actual expenses and
offsetting revenues and the difference between projected and actual volume of
water sold. Any funds realized in excess of annual expenses are available for
either supplementing minimum operating or capital reserves, for addition to the
capital funds for discretionary cash capital funding of the water utility, or 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.
"(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.
"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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"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 2009.
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 Cycle 11 through April Cycle 10)
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Rate per MCF
Monthly Consumption
i les
e e s
- - - , .. _ 1
August 1, 2009 — July 31, 2010
Meter Charge
$1.00
First 1 MCF
9.260
(Minimum Bill)
9.47
Next 2 MCF
5.195
5.30
Next 7 MCF
3.003
Next 3 MCF
3.06
Next -5 -MCF
2.621
Next 4 MCF
2.98
Next 35 -MSF
2.833
Next 20 MCF
2.89
Next 20 MCF
2.47
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"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
• e e s
e e e
- - - , .. . ,
August 1, 2009 — July 31, 2010
All over 50 MCF
$1.00
2.011
2.05
(Minimum Bill)
"Note: Rates do not include purchased gas adjustment and sales tax, where applicable
"b. Summer rates (from April Cycle 11 through November Cycle 10)
"Note: Rates do not include purchased gas adjustment and sales tax, where applicable
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Rate per MCF
Monthly Consumption
August 1, 2008 July41,2009
August 1, 2009— July 31, 2010
Meter Charge
$1.00
First 1 MCF
-9260
(Minimum Bill)
9.47
Next 2 MCF
5.195
5.30
Next 5 MCF
3.003
Next 3 MCF
3.06
Next
1.507
-2 -MCF
Next 4 MCF
2.30
Next 28 MCF
1.469
Next 20 MCF
1.54
Next 20 MCF
1.50
1.339
All over 50 MCF
1.37
"Note: Rates do not include purchased gas adjustment and sales tax, where applicable
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"(2) Outside City Limits
"a. Winter rates (from November Cycle 11 through April Cycle 10)
Monthly Consumption
August 1 2008 I ly 31 2009
August 1, 2009 — July 31, 2010
Monthly Consumption
• : e ! :
Meter Charge
$1.25
First 1 MCF
11.126
Meter Charge
(Minimum Bill)
$1.25
11.68
11.426
Next 2 MCF
57824
Next 2 MCF
5.94
Next 7 MCF
3.310
Next 3 MCF
3.43
Next 40 MCF
3,142
Next 4 MCF
3.34
Next 20 MCF
3.24
Next 20 MCF
2.77
All over 50 MCF
2.181
2.30
"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
• : e ! :
99!
- - .. -
August 1, 2009 — July 31, 2010
Meter Charge
$1.25
First 1 MCF
(Minimum Bill)
11.426
11.68
Next 2 MCF
5.824
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"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
5.94
Monthly Consumption
August 1, 2008 July 31, 2009
Next 5 MCF
3,349
Meter Charge
Next 3 MCF
3.43
9.260
9.69
Next—a0—MCF
4,656
Next 4 MCF
2.58
Next 7 MCF
Next 3 MCF
1.853
4.95
Next 20 MCF
1.72
Next 4 MCF
4.86
Next 20 MCF
1.68
1.121
All over 50 MCF
1.53
"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
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Rate per MCF
Monthly Consumption
August 1, 2008 July 31, 2009
August 1, 2009—July 31, 2010
Meter Charge
$12.02
First 1 MCF
(Minimum Bill)
9.260
9.69
Next 2 MCF
5.195
5.30
Next 7 MCF
Next 3 MCF
1.853
4.95
Next 4 MCF
4.86
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Next 40 MCF
4-668
4.76
Monthly Consumption
August 1, 2008 July 31, 2009
Next 50 MCF
2.011
Meter Charge
$15.02
2.05
11.426
11.95
Next 100 MCF
1.679
5.821
1.71
Next 100 MCF
x,466
1.50
Next 700 MCF
1.403
1.43
Next 1,000 MCF
1.212
1.24
Next 13,000 MCF
1.090
1.11
All over 15,000 MCF
1.011
1.06
"Note: Rates do not include purchased gas adjustment and sales tax, where applicable
"(2) Outside City Limits
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Rate per MCF
Monthly Consumption
August 1, 2008 July 31, 2009
August 1, 2009—July 31, 2010
Meter Charge
$15.02
First 1 MCF
(Minimum Bill)
11.426
11.95
Next 2 MCF
5.821
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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):
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5.94
Next -7 -MCF
5,460
Next 3 MCF
5.54
Next 4 MCF
5.44
Next 40 MCF
5.257
5.33
Next 50 MCF
2.181
2.30
Next 100 MCF
1.572
1.92
Next 100 MCF
2.099
1.68
Next 700 MCF
1.185
1.60
Next 1,000 MCF
1.212
1.39
Next 13,000 MCF
1.090
1.24
All over 15,000 MCF
4:044
1.19
"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):
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"(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
August 1, 2008 July 31, 2000
August 1, 2009—July 31, 2010
a e 9
Meter Charge
$1.00
First 1 MCF
(Minimum Bill)
15.384
15.71
$1.25
Next 2 MCF
13.912
14.19
18.87
Next 3 MCF
10.46
Next 4 MCF
6/4
Next 7 MCF
6.605
Next 30 MCF
2.833
2.89
Next 20 MCF
2.47
All over 10 MCF
All over 50 MCF
2.011
2.05
"Note: Rates do not include purchased gas adjustment and sales tax, where applicable
"(2) Outside City Limits
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Rate per MCF
Monthly Consumption
A._-. e e a
a e 9
..
August 1, 2009 — July 31, 2010
Meter Charge
$1.25
First 1 MCF
(Minimum Bill)
18.170
18.87
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Next 2 MCF
15.892
Next 7 MCF
Next 3 MCF
7-489
11.72
eee
, .. . ,
August 1, 2009— July 31, 2010
Next 4 MCF
7.55
$12.02
Next 30 MCF
3.132
9 259
Next 20 MCF
3.24
First 1 MCF (Min Bill)
Next 20 MCF
2.77
Next 2 MCF
All over 50 MCF
2.30
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
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Rate per MCF
Monthly
Consumption
`.e. ees
eee
, .. . ,
August 1, 2009— July 31, 2010
Meter Charge
$12.02
9 259
First 1 MCF (Min Bill)
9.69
Next 2 MCF
5.194
5.30
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Next 7 MCF
4.853
Next 3 MCF
4.95
Meter Charge
$15.02
Next 4 MCF
429
11.95
Next 40 MCF
3564-
5.94
3.62
Next 150 MCF
1.507
1.54
Next 300 MCF
1.103
Next 100 MCF
1.43
Next 500 MCF
1.212
Next 700 MCF
1.24
Next 1000 MCF
1.11
1.090
Next 13,000 MCF
1.06
All over 15,000 MCF
1.044
1.01
"Note: Rates do not include purchased gas adjustment and sales tax, where applicable.
"(2) Outside City Limits
Monthly
Consumption
August 1, 2008 July 31, 2000
August 1, 2009 — July 31, 20010
Meter Charge
$15.02
First 1 MCF
(Minimum Bill)
4-1-426
11.95
Next 2 MCF
5.824
5.94
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Next -7 -MCF
67469
Next 3 MCF
5.54
Next 4 MCF
4.80
Next 40 MCF
3.993
4.05
Next 150 MCF
1,656
1.72
Next 100 MCF
1.60
Next -3 -00 -MCF
1.485
Next 500-MGF
1,2-76
Next 700 MCF
1.39
Next 1000 MCF
1.24
Next 14,000 MCF
1.131
Next 13,000 MCF
1.19
All over 15,000 MCF
1.044
1.13
"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
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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 2009.
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 XI of Chapter
55, shall be based on the amount of water used by the user according to the following
rates:
Classification
August -1,
2008 to
July 31,
August 1,
2009 to
July 31,
2009
2010
Inside City Limits
One -family minimum
monthly charge (first
2,000 gallons)
$48-879
19.87
Inside City Limits
One -family per 1,000
gallons over 2,000
$3.817
4.02
Inside City Limits
One -family maximum
monthly charge (Up to
25,000 gallons)
106.67
92.46
Outside City Limits
One -family minimum
monthly charge (first
2,000 gallons)
23.500
24.84
Outside City Limits
One -family per 1,000
gallons over 2,000
7.634
8.47
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Classification
August 1,
August 1,
2008 to
July 31,
2009 to
July 31,
2009
2010
Outside City Limits
One -family maximum
monthly charge (Up to
25,000 gallons)
$199.181
194.81
Inside City Limits
Commercial minimum
monthly charge (first
2,000 gallons)
26.862
29.28
Inside City Limits
Commercial per 1,000
gallons over 2,000
2.856
3.11
Outside City Limits
Commercial minimum
monthly charge (first
2,000 gallons)
33.578
36.60
Outside City Limits
Commercial per 1,000
gallons over 2,000
$5.71-8
6.23
"(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".
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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 "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 for 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
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billed at the "interim 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 "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 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 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 2009.
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) 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.
"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/I.
"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.
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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
1,2008
to
July 31,
August
1, 2009
to
July 31,
2809
2010
X (unit charge in dollars
per pound of COD)
$0.0000
$0.0000
Y (unit charge in dollars
per pound of BOD)
0.3091
0.3369
Z (unit charge in dollars
per pound of TSS)
0.2210
0.2419
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 2009.
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 Christi.
1i:\LEG-DIR\Lisa\2009 Ordinance\Utility rate as amended July 28.doc
That the foregoing ordin ce was read for t -fi.rIs�t .time and passed to its second
reading on this the f day of , 2009, by the following vote:
Joe Adame Priscilla G. Leal
Chris N. Adler John E. Marez
Brent Chesney Nelda Martinez
Larry Elizondo, Sr. Mark Scott
Kevin Kieschnick
That the foregoing ordinance was read for the second time and passed finally on this
the day of ?fir 2009, by the following vote:
Priscilla G. Leal
Joe Adame
Chris N. Adler
Brent Chesney
Larry Elizondo, Sr.
Kevin Kieschnick
Ale
John E. Marez
Nelda Martinez
Mark Scott
PASSED AND APPROVED, this the o20l`7ay of
ATTEST:
Armando Chapa
City Secretary
APPROVED as to form: July 29, 2009
By: Q&l
Lisa Aguilar9(ssistant City Attorney
for City Attorney
No
Joe AQmita
Mayor
028256
2009.
cialypric
EFFECTIVE DATE
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State of Texas
County of Nueces
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PUBLISHER'S AFFIDAVIT
CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI
Ad # 5912709
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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 REPRESENTITIVE 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 Patricia, Victoria and Webb Counties, and that the
6Aitg-Q,
publication of, NOTICE OF PASSAGE OF ORDINANCE NO. -92.8"25 which the
annexed is a true copy,was inserted in the Corpus Christi Caller -Times on the
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8/3/2009, 8/5/2009.
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On this ��ay o
is a true and an exact copy
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MY COMMISSION EXPIRES
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ertify that the attached document
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Nary Public, State of Texas
CALLER -TIMES a August 3, 2009 a 5E
NOTICE OF
PASSAGE OF
ORDINANCE NO.
028256
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Amending the. Code
of Ordinances, City of
Corpus Christi, Chap- 1
ter 55, Utilities,
regarding water, gas
and wastewater rates
and fees, providing!
an effective dated
This ordinance was I
passed and approved
by the City Council of l
the City of Corpus I
Christi on its second
reading on July 28,
2009. This ordinance
is effective on or after
August 1, 2009.
is/Armando Chapa
City Secretary
City of Corpus Christi