HomeMy WebLinkAboutReso 42-2012 RESOLUTION NO. 42 -2012
CITY COUNCIL, CITY OF SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, STATE OF CALIFORNIA
A RESOLUTION ESTABLISHING SEWER RATES
EFFECTIVE FISCAL YEAR 2012 -2013 AND ADOPTING A
REPORT OF ANNUAL SEWER RENTALS OR CHARGES FOR
FISCAL YEAR 2012 -2013
WHEREAS, by Chapter 14.12 of the South San Francisco Municipal Code the City
Council is authorized to establish sewer rates by resolution; and
WHEREAS, on June 24, 2009, the City Council reviewed the implementation of the 5-
year rate increases of 20% for 2009 -2010, 10% for 2010 -2011, 5% for 2011 -2012, and 0% for
2012 -2013 and 2013 -2014, after a properly noticed public hearing at which there was not a
majority protest, the City Council approved the sewer rate increase to finance improvements to
the City's sewer collection, pumping and treatment facilities; and
WHEREAS, in June of 2012, as required by law, notice of the proposed rate and public
hearing was published in a newspaper of general circulation; and
WHEREAS, the City Council has given notice and on June 27, 2012, held a public
hearing as required by law on the subject sewer rates; and
WHEREAS, the rates reflected in the report of Annual Sewer Rentals and charges are
consistent with the five -year financing plan.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the City Council of the City of South San
Francisco hereby approves the schedule of rates set forth in the attached Exhibit "A" which
implements the previously approved financing plan, and hereby maintains the City's Master Fee
Schedule of sewer rates, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City Council hereby adopts the Report of Annual
Sewer Rentals and Charges for Fiscal Year 2012 -2013, and directs that the rates so established
shall be collected on the official tax assessment roll, together with real property taxes, and that
the amount shall constitute liens upon the properties which shall be effective at the same time
and to the same extent as is provided for by law in the case of real property taxes, with like
penalties for delinquencies.
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I hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution was regularly introduced and adopted by
the City Council of the City of South San Francisco at a regular meeting held on the 27 day of
June, 2012 by the following vote:
AYES: Councilmembers Mark Addiego, Karyl Matsumoto, and Kevin Mullin,
Vice Mayor Pedro Gonzalez and Mayor Richard A. Garbarino
NOES: None
ABSTAIN: None
ABSENT: None
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EXHIBIT "A"
PARCEL USE CLASSIFICATION AND ANNUAL RATE/UNIT RATE
A. Residential Class:
Single - family dwelling $532.00 per dwelling — yearly
Multi - family dwelling (duplexes,
flats, apartments, and similar $532.00 per dwelling per unit - yearly
class of users)
Trailer Court and similar class of $477.00 per dwelling per unit - yearly
uses
B. Institutional Class:
Schools, colleges, rest homes, hospitals, clubs, lodges, and similar class of uses.
Minimum charge, or $532.00 yearly
Volume charge based on water $5.687 per 100 cubic feet of water
consumed (metered inflow), or consumed
Volume charge based on water $6.318 per 100 cubic feet of water
consumed (metered effluent) consumed
C. Commercial and Non - monitored Industrial Classes
1. Light Strength Uses:
Bars (without dining facilities), car washes, department and retail stores, hotels, motels
(without dining facilities), Laundromats, professional and business offices, banks, savings
and loan associations, warehouses, auto rentals (without repair shops), newspapers,
commercial printing shops, freight and drayage services, barber shops, shoe repair shops,
camera shops, plating shops, wood and furniture fabricators, heating and appliance stores,
drug stores, auto supply stores, general contractors' offices, public administration offices,
health services, legal services, dry cleaners, metal fabricators, lumber companies, laundry
services, sheet metal shops, and similar classes of uses with wastewater strengths Less than
or approximated equivalent to residential strength.
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Minimum charge, or $532.00 per facility - yearly
Volume charge based on water $7.048 per 100 cubic feet of water
consumed (metered inflow), or consumed
Volume charge based on water $7.834 per 100 cubic feet of water
consumed (metered effluent) consumed
2. Moderate Strength Uses:
Auto /gas service stations, auto steam cleaners, auto rentals (with repair shops), bakeries,
beauty and hair salons, commercial laundries, mortuaries, lodges (with dining facilities),
radiator repair shops, markets (with garbage disposals), ice cream parlors, candy
manufacturers, food preparation and caterers, sandwich shops, drive -in theaters,
creameries, roofers, chemical preparations, machine shops, photo /film processors, rug,
carpet, upholstery cleaners, foundries, ceramics studios, oil services, transmission services,
sanitation services, furriers, drum and barrel cleaners, and similar classes of uses with
wastewater strengths significantly greater than residential strength.
The user will be reclassified to the light strength use classification if it adequately
demonstrates to the City Engineer it is discharging only segregated or wastewater
equivalent in strength to residential wastewater.
Minimum charge, or $532.00 - yearly
Volume charge based on water $11.033 per 100 cubic feet of water
consumed (metered inflow), or consumed
Volume charge based on water $12.259 per 100 cubic feet of water
consumed (metered effluent) consumed
3. Restaurants, Cafes and Other Eating Places:
Minimum charge, or $532.00 - yearly
Volume charge based on water $16.121 per 100 cubic feet of water
consumed (metered inflow), or consumed
Volume charge based on water $17.911 per 100 cubic feet of water
consumed (metered effluent) consumed
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Monitored and Industrial Class:
1. Monitored and Industrial Users:
Manufacturers, processors, producers, laundries, photo finishers, painting services,
packagers and similar classes of uses whose wastewater are monitored by the City.
Minimum charge, or combination $532.00 - yearly
of the following;
Volume charge based on water $4.2231 per 100 cubic feet of water
consumed (metered inflow), or consumed
Volume charge based on water $4.6930 per 100 cubic feet of water
consumed (metered effluent) consumed
Surcharge for suspended solids $1.417 per pound of suspended solids
(SS) discharged
Surcharge for chemical oxygen $0.438 per pound of COD discharged
demand (COD)
2. Septage Waste Haulers:
Commercial businesses which haul to and dispose of Septage waste at the Water Quality
Control Plant.
Minimum charge $532.00— yearly
Volume charge based on waste
water discharge $0.301 per gallon discharged
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