HomeMy WebLinkAbout1983-08-16; City Council; 7472; Water RateCITY OF CARLSEAD — AGENDA ALL
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DEPT. UTL CITY ATTY.�/�
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RECOMMENDED ACTION:
Council approve Resolution No. '7,3Q increasing the per unit rate of water
from 470 to 61.50 and modifying (reducing) ready -to -serve fees.
ITEM EXPLANATION:
Costa Real Municiapl Water District approved a water rate increase at their
meeting of August 3, 1983. The District has increased their wholesale rate
from $207.00 to $267.89 per acre foot. This charge is 61.50 per water unit
(100 cubic feet) and is the same amount they are charging their customers.
The unit increase is about 31%, however, staff is recommending that the
ready -to -serve charge be reduced to the least charge of the City or the District.
This is a reduction of $5.20 to $4.40 for the stand-by charge. These changes
(the increase and reduction.) cumulatively result in an increase of about 14% for
the average homeowner. The current water rate was approved in January 1980.
This recommended rate will result in a uniform rate for retail service for the
City and the District retail customers. It is expected that the City will do
all billing under our negotiated agreement by January 1984.
FISCAL IMPACT:
The recommended rates will increase water service costs for an average single
family customer from $14.60 to $16.70 or $2.10 per month. This is about a
147. increase. The city customer service operation can be funded completely by
the ready -to -serve fees and the District per unit rate can be passed directly
to the customer. This will be a uniform rate throughout the City/District
area. A comparison of local rates is contained at Exhibit C.
EXHIBITS:
1. ✓ Resolution No. 7,3 Zr .
2.� Memorandum from Utilities Director to City Manager.
3.-Rate comparisons for other Districts providing
service to Carlsbad residents.
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1 RESOLUTION NO. 7328
2 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF CARLSBAD REVISING WATER RATES
3 : AND CHARGES
4 WHEREAS, Section 14.04.030 of the Carlsbad Municipal Code empowers the
5 City Council to, from time to time, by resolution, adopt rules and regulations
6 for the operation and maintenance of the Water Department of the City, and for
7 furnishing water to users, and empowers the Council to, by resolution, modify
8 rates, charges and penalties respecting water service.
9 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the hereinafter stated regulations
10 respecting water rates, charges, billing and related regulations shall become
11 effective immediately upon passage of this resolution.
12 I. Generally. The schedules of rates, compensations, charges and
13 minimum charges as set out in this resolution are fixed and established, as the
14 rates, compensations, charges and minimum charges to be charged and collected
15 by the City for domestic water and water service, except as otherwise
16 specifically provided.
17 II. Water Charges.
18 (a) There shall be a separate monthly water standby charge for
each consumer; provided that there shall be only one monthly
3.9 standby charge for each equivalent dwelling unit, each
agricultural and industrial consumer, and each institutional
20 consumer as follows:
21 For a 5/8" meter $ 4.40
For a 3/4" meter $ 4.40
22 For a 1 " meter $ 5.45
For a 12 " meter $ 5.90
23 For a 2 " meter $ 6.40
For a 3 " meter $ 12.30
24 For a 4 " meter $ 15.40
For a 6 " meter $ 15.40
25 For a 8 " meter $ 23.70
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(1) When one meter serves multiple dwelling units or
multiple equivalent dwelling units, the first
unit shall pay the unit rate based on the above
schedule and all other units shall pay $2.53
for each additional multiple residential unit,
(2) In the event no water is used through the meter
or the property becomes vacant, the monthly
stand-by charge will be charged to and paid by the
owner thereof.
(b) The rates to be charged for water supplied in any one month
through meters, are as follows:
All consumers 61.50/100 cu. ft.
(c) All agricultural consumers who meet the Metropolitan Water
District Southern California requirements for agricultural
consumers receive a pro-rata share of the agricultural
rebate the City receives monthly from the Costa Real
Municipal Water District.
(d) There shall be a monthly charge of five dollars per month
for all water connections supplying non -metered water for
fire sprinkler purposes. All maintenance or repairs to
fire service systems from the water main to the shut off
valve shall be apid for by the consumer and shall be charged
on the regular water billing. All fire service systems
shall be equipped with a meter by-pass which shall be paid
for and installed at the consumer's expense. In the event
water is served through the fire service system, the City
Water Department and the Fire Department shall estimate the
amount of water used and the regular charge therefore shall
be put on customer's bill and shall be apid by consumer.
(e) A monthly fee of one dollar shall be paid for each five
rooms in any hotel, rooming house or motel, in which no
cooking is allowed.
(f) A monthly fee shall be charged for each individual living
unit contained in any motor court, motel, hotel, or rooming
house or other transient type habitat which allows cooking
in rooms in the amount of 700 in addition to other charges
established.
III. Payment of Bills. All water bills are due and payable at the City
fall of the City of Carlsbad upon presentation and are delinquent if not paid
)y the 15th of the month following the monthly billing.
IV. Meter Reading - Water District. For convenience in the reading of
ieters and preparation of water bills, the department is expressly authorized
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to divide the City into districts. These dist-ricLs may, from time to time, be
revised or changed as necessary or desirable, in order to equalize the work
of reading meters and billing. The meters in each district so established
shall be read and water bills based on such meter readings, shall be prepared
and -ailed to the consum,-:s in each district on approximately the same day of
leach r.nd every month, except when Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays
lintervene.
V. Bills - Mailing. Unless the applicant for water service directs
otherwise, all bills will be mailed to the premises where water service is
furnished.
VI. Change of Ownership or Occupancy - Notification. It shall be the
duty of every person signing an application for water delivery and of every
owner of property to which water is delivered to notify the Water Department of
any change in the ownership or occupancy of the premises to which the water
is to be furnished at least two days prior to such change. Every applicant
shall be liable for the water furnished and metered in accordance with the
application until the Water Department receives written notice to cancel
same and shut off the water, when the applicant's liability shall cease except
las to water previous to such notice. Every owner of property is liable for
water furnished to any premises he has rented in the event the tenant does not
pay the water bill. Water service shall not be given any consumer upon change
of address until all delinquent charges owed by the consumer at a former place
of residence or business shall be paid.
VII. New Accounts - Turning on Water Charge. Regulation of water service;
turning on and off of water supply. A three dollar and thirty cents charge
will be made by the department for turning on the water supply when requested
by the consumer incident to the opening of a new account.
VIII. Nonpayment - Service Discontinuance. In the event that any consumer
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shall.be delinquent in the payment of his water bill, and such delinquency
shall continue for a period of ten days after the final date for payment of
.such bill, the department shall have the right forthwith and without notice
to discontinue water service to the premises of such delinquent consumer, and
water shall not again be supplied to him or to the premises until all delinquent
water bills, plus the penalties thereon, and reconnection charges, have been
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IX. Restoring Service After Discontinuance. Procedures for restoring
service after delinquency period. If water service is cut off or discontinued
for failure to pay delinquent bills, such service may again be established only
in the event the consumer or the applicant for service at such place pays all
delinquent bills, charges and penalties, and makes such cash deposit as may be
required by the Water Department.
When an owner or consumer has been delinquent in his water bills
in succession or three times in any one calendar year, he shall be required
to deposit a sum equal to an average two months' water bill upon such premises
land pays, in addition thereto, the sum of eight dollars and twenty-five cents
for turning on the water supply. Thgreupon and not otherwise will water service
again be made or established to the premises where the water bill has been
delinquent.
X. The Rates and Charges established by this resolution shall on their
effective day supersede the rates established by Resolution No. 6065.
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PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED, by the City Council of the City of
Carlsbad at a regular meeting of the City Council held on the 16th day of
August , 1983, by the following vote, to wit:
AYES: Council Dleuo rs Casler, Lewis, Kulchin, Chick and Prescott
NOES: Norio
ABSENT: None
MARY�H �r
H. CrASLER, Mayor
11 ATTEST:
I—AMLET A L. RAUTE� GRAN �R. KUNDT , Deputy Cylerk
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AUGUST 8, 1983
TO: CITY MANAGER
FROM: Director of Utilities
REVENUES/EXPENSES, TRANSITION WATER BUDGET
I have developed a draft water budget for the Water Department providing only
those services outlined in our agreement with CRMWD plus those personnel we
will retain as employees until transferred to the District about January 1,
1984. This budget amount is $601,850. I will submit this "transition" budget
for Council approval after coordinating with Bill Meadows.
It is our intent to fund our customer service operation from the stand-by
charges. The volume charge for water will be the same charge as the District
sets as the charge to the city. In effect, the District sets the unit charge
and the city sets the stand-by charge. Previously, the City and District had
different per unit charges. These were as follows:
METER
SIZE CITY
DISTRICT
5/8"
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4.40
3/4"
5.30
4.40
5.45
5.50
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5.90
7.70
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6.40
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19.25
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15.40
37.95
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55.00
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23.70
82.50
I have applied the lowest rate, either City or District, to the combined
customer base for the next year. This is recomunended for approval for the rate
resolution. This will develop about $498,000 in the city service area and
about $208,000 from the district service area or an annual amount of $706,000.
Our revenues from stand-by charges thus will be sufficient to cover the costs
of operations and salaries for the CRMWD transferees until January, 1984. The
charges for stand-by fees should be reevaluated when the final City/District
budgets are adopted.
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