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PROPOSED LATE FEE FOR UTILITY BILLING CITY AT
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ten percent (look) late fee on utility accounts that have been outstanding for
over 30 days•
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bill of $30 or more and
is aid. A customer who waits until the Notice of
Reader shuts the water off and water service is not reinstated until the utility
bill plus a $20 turn-onbill with no penalty, therefore receiving an interest -
Water Shutoff can pay
the free loan from the City for 60 days -
tardiness extent of the tardiness in paying utility bills is shown in Exhibit 2.
Arrears as a percentage of total bills ranged
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to $321,529)• Nevertheless, the City Still
an for services
n addition to interest -free loans to tardy customers, the City
District for the water consumed and Coast Waste management Comp
provided so that i
is losing interest on potential investments.
A survey of six residential water districts
districts assessed a late charge of billsaover e30 daysgo y showed that five
old (the other
district requires a three month dep
ystem and have determined that we
Staff have run tests in the utility billing s
system with just a minor
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following adoption of the resolutions and ordinance. tud to
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service. At the end of the study, a
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FISCAL IMPACT:
within 30 days.
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charge is instituted. could 2, then the monthly revenueeofFund and $12,000-$32e000 (orral d$242,861xfortcalendarean
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1987).
EXHIBITS:
1 y/Resolution No. modifying charges respecting water service.
2 ✓Resolution No.M33L revising the refuse collection rates.
3 � Ordinance No. S-/ adjusting sewer service charges.
4l Table showing total water billings and amount in arrears for calendar year
1987.
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9II RESOLUTION NO. 88-138
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF CARLSBAD REVISING WATER RATES AND CHANGES
WHEREAS, Section 14.04.030 of the Carlsbad Municipal Code empowers the
City Council to, from time to time, by resolution, adopt rules and regu
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for the operation and maintenance of the Water Department of the City,an for
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furnishing water to users, and empowers the Council to, by resolution, modify
rates, charges and y
penalties respecting water service,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the hereinafter stated regulations
respecting water rates, charges, billing and related regulations shall become
effective for all water billed after May 1, 1988.
I. Gen__ erally. The schedules rates, compensations, charges and minimum
charges as set out in this resolution are fixed and established as the rat
compensations, charges and minimum charges to be charged and collected by the
City for domestic water and water service, except as otherwise specifically
Provided.
II. Water Charges.
a) There shall be a separate monthly water standby charge for each
consumer; provided that there shall be only one monthly standby
charge for each equivalent dwelling unit, each agricultural and
individual consumer, and each institutional consumer as follows:
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$ 4.40
For
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$ 4.40
For
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$ 5.43
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$ 5.90
For
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2" meter
$ 6.40
For
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3" meter
$12.30
For
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4" meter
$15.40
For
a
6" meter
$15.40
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 standby charge will be
charged and paid by the owner thereof.
b) The rates to be charged for potable water supplied in any one
month through meters are as follows:
All consumers $.97/100 cubic feet
c) All agricultural consumers who meet the Metropolitan Water
District Southern California requirements for agricultural
consumers receive a pro -rate 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 paid for 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 expen:;e. 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
the customer's bill and shall be paid by the 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 $.70 in addition to other charges established.
g) A charge of twenty dollars ($20.00) will be assessed for the
restoration of service after it has been terminated for non-
payment.
h) A charge of 10% of the billed amount will. be assessed if the bill
is not paid within 30 days of the date billed.
III. Payment of Bills All water bills are due and payable at the City Hall
of the City of Carlsbad upon presentation and are delinquent if not paid within
30 days of the date billed. Delinquent bills will be assessed a 10% late fee.
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IV. Meter Reading - Water District. For convenience in the reading of
meters and preparation of water bills, the department is expressly authorized
to divide the City into districts. These districts 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
mailed to the consumers in each district on approximately the same day of each
sand every month, except when Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays intervene.
V. Bills - Mailings. Unless the applicant for water service directs
otherwise, all bills will be mailed to the premises where service is furnished.
VI. Change of Ownership or Occupancy - Notification. It shall be the duty of
Revery 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 application until
the Water Deparment receives written notice to cancel same and shut off the
water when the applicant's liabililty shall cease except as to water used
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 to 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. Terminating Accounts/New Accounts - Charge for Turning Water On or Off.
Regulataion of water service; turning on and off of water supply. A ten
dollar ($10.00) charge will be made incident to the closing of an account. A
ten dollar ($10.00) charge will be made by the department for turning on the
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parer supply when requested by the consumer incident to the opening of a new
account.
VIII. Non-payment - Service Discontinuance. In the event that any consumer
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 to discontinue water
service to the premises of such delinquent consumer. A reconnection charge of
twenty dollars ($20.00) will be assessed if the service is terminated and
subsequently restored. Water shall not again be supplied to him until all
delinquent water bills, plus the penalties thereon, and reconnection charges,
has been paid.
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 er consumer has been delinquent in his water bills twice
�in succession or three times in any one calendar year, he shall be required to
deposit a sum equal to an average two month's water bill upon such premises
and pays, in addition thereto, the sum of twenty dollars ($20.00) for turning;
on the water supply. Thereupon and not otherwise will water service again be
made or established to the premises where the water bill has been delinquent.
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X. The Rates and Charges established by this resolution shall on their
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effective day supersede the rates established by Resolution No. 7454.
2 PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED, by the City Council of the City of
3 Carlsbad at a regular meeting of the City Council held on the 26 day of Anril
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_, 1988, by the following vote, to wit:
5 AYES: Council Members Lewis, Kulchin, Mamaux, Larson
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ABSENT: Council Member Pettine !
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1 RESOLUTION NO.88-139
2 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
CARLSBAD, CALIFORNIA, REVISING THE REFUSE
3 COLLECTION RATES FOR THE CITY OF CARLSBAD.
4 WHEREAS, the City of Carlsbad has contracted with Coast Waste Management,
5 Inc. for refuse collection services within the City; and
6 WHEREAS, the City adopted Resolution No. 8868 setting refuse collection
7 requirements and establishing rates for said services;
8 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of
9 Carlsbad as follows:
10 1. That the above recitations are true and correct.
11 2. That the rate for once -a -week collection of residential refuse shall be
a monthly charge of $6.95.
12 3. The rates for once -a -week on premise collection of residential refuse
13 is a monthly charge of $8.93 per month.
14 4. The monthly rates to be charged for commercial collections shall be as
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NUMBER OF PICKUPS PER WEEK
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19 1 $43.75 $70.78 $97.81 $124.83 $151.86 $178.85
20 COMMERCIAL CAN STOPS
1 x Week $14.23/Month
21 2 x Week 28.45/Month
3 x Week 42.67/Month
22 4 x Week 56.89/Month
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APARTMENTS AND CONDOMINIUMS
No. of Units
1 - 3 $6.95/Month per unit
4 - 5 6.48/Month per unit
6 or more 6.27/Month per unit
i. That the following rates shall apply to special pickups of refuse:
a) Drag -on box service shall be charged at the rate of S'_17.50 delivery
charge per box. The following dump charges apply to the following
classes of drag -on boxes:
A. (19 cu. yds. or less) $134.34
B. (20-29 cu. yds.) 149.34
c. (30-39 cu. yds.) 164.34
D. (40-49 cu. yds.) 179.34
(The above rates include the applicable dump fees.)
Demurrage charges on drag -on boxes shall be $3.00 per day in the event
the drag -on box is not dumped a minimum of one time a week. Customers
requiring more than one dump from a drag -on box shall receive a refund
of the original $27.50 delivery fee, this refund may be in the form of
a credit against the customer's account with the refuse collector.
b) Special pickups of items such as water heaters, washers, dryers, etc.
shall be individually negotiated at a reasonable rate between collector
and customer. Before any pickup of such items is made, customer shall
be notified of charges.
16. That a 10% late charge will be assessed against bills not paid within 30
days of the date billed.
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1986.
The commercial rates established hereby shall be effective November 1,
The residential rates established hereby shall be effective November I.
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9: The rates and charges established by this resolution shall on their
effective day supersede the rates established by Resolution No. 7296,
except that the 10% late fee shall be effective thirty (30) days after this
ordinance is approved.
PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED at a regular meeting of the City Council of
the City of Carlsbad, California, held on the 26 day of April 1988, and
by the following vote, to wit:
AYES: Council Members Lewis, Kulchin, Mamaux, Larson
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ABSENT: Council Member Pettine A/k,e /o
ATTEST:
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ORDINANCE NO. NS-14
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CARLSBAD,
CALIFORNIA AMENDING TITLE 13, CHAPTER 13.12 OF THE CARLSBAD
MUNICIPAL CODE BY THE AMENDMENT OF SECTION 13.12.020 TO ADJUST
SEWER SERVICE CHARGES.
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Carlsbad does, from time to
time, establish sewer service fees to support the City's sewer maintenance
operations; and
WHEREAS, it has become necessary to assess a late charge of 10% on bills
outstanding more than 30 days,
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the City Council of the City of
Carlsbad does ordain as follows:
SECTION 1: That Title 13, Chapter 13.12 of the Carlsbad Municipal Code
is amended by the amendment of Section 13.12.020 to read as follows:
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13.12.020 Sewer Service Charges Established. All persons whose premises
in the City are served by a connection to the City sewer system whereby sewage
or other waste material is disposed of through such system shall pay a sewer
service charge as established by this section:
MONTHLY SEWER
SERVICE CHARGE
1. Residential
A. For each single family dwelling $ 6.75
B. For each unit a duplex, flat, apartment,
court, multiple dwelling, mobile home
complex or trailer court 6.75
2. Commercial & Industrial
A. For each unit of a motel, hotel, rooming,
lodging or boarding house, ten units or less 2.70
-each additional unit over ten 2.05
-each unit with kitchen facilities 6.75
B. Bakeries, markets with disposals,
mortuaries and restaurants 13.20
C. Schools and all other commercial uses not
listed above 6.75
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MONTHLY SEWER
SERVICE CHARGE
Car washes, wash racks, laundries and other
enterprises where water is the primary
ccmmodity to carry on said business and $6.75 per EDU
said carter is discharged into the sanitary 0.52 per each 100
sewer system cubic feet
Each enterprise where water is the primary
commodity to carry on said business and said 0.67 x (180 +
water characteristics exceed the sewer service (S-S.] - 360)
area average for suspended solids (S.S.)
For each unit of an office of commercial building
or any establishment having facilities for
trailers, campers or boats. 6.75
Late Charge
Any bill outstanding over 30 days shall be assessed a ten percent (10%)
late charge fee.
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II EFFECTIVE DATE: This ordinance shall be effective thirty (30) days after
its adoption, and the City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this
ordinance and cause it to be published at least once in the Carlsbad Journal
within fifteen (15) days after its adoption.
INTRODUCED AND FIRST READ at a regular meeting of the Carlsbad City
Council on the 26th day of _April , 1988, and thereafter
PASSED AND ADOPTED at a regular meeting of the Carlsbad City Council on
the 3rd day of _May, 1988 by the following vote, to wit:
AYES: Council Members Lewis, Kulchin, Mamaux and Larson
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
ABSTAIN: Council Member Pettine I&IS.E A.MAYOR
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JALETL. RA NZCITCLERK R. UNDTZ, Deputy City Clerk
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WATER, TRASH AND SEWER BILLINGS FOR 1987
Billings for
Amount in
Arrears as %
Month
1987
Arrears
of Total Billing
January
$ 808,049.14
$ 321,529.05
39.79
February
781,474.26
186,964.86
23.92
March
793,605.46
213,085.31
26.85
April
886,229.92
154,708.24
17.45
May
952,592.76
198,699.37
20.85
June
1,116,005.21
225,519.19
20.20
July
1,093,479.09
228,914.25
20.93
August
1,092,715.20
216,844.33
19.84
September
1,148,779.63
207,622.35
18.07
October
1,053,370.28
184,855.39
17.54
November
819,845.65
167,985.97
20.48
December
830,757.70
121,881.58
14.67
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