HomeMy WebLinkAboutReso 74-2015 RESOLUTION NO. 74-2015
CITY COUNCIL, CITY OF SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, STATE OF CALIFORNIA
A RESOLUTION ESTABLISHING SEWER SERVICE RATES
EFFECTIVE FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 2015-2016; AMENDING
THE MASTER FEE SCHEDULE TO INCLUDE THE FISCAL
YEAR 2015-2016 RATES; AND ADOPTING THE REPORT OF
ANNUAL SEWER RENTAL CHARGES FOR FISCAL YEAR
2015-2016
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, in April and May of 2014, in accordance with the requirements of
Proposition 218, the City notified the owners of property within South San Francisco of the
proposed three year rate plan and the Sewer Plant's capital improvement needs, State regulatory
changes, the proposed rate increase and the structure of the rate changes; and
WHEREAS, on May 28, 2014, the City Council conducted a properly noticed public
hearing, at which there was not a majority protest, and approved the three year rate plan; and
WHEREAS, the adopted three year rate plan included a 4% increase for single-unit
residential and trailer unit residential, a 3% decrease for multi-unit residential and a 5% increase
for commercial properties for Fiscal Year 2014-15; a 4% increase for single-unit residential and
trailer unit residential and a 0% increase for multi-unit residential and commercial rates for
Fiscal Year 2015-16; and a 2% increase for all classifications in Fiscal Year 2016-17; and,
WHEREAS, in June of 2015, as required by law, notice of the proposed rates for Fiscal
Year 2015-2016 and notice of the public hearing was published in a newspaper of general
circulation; and
WHEREAS, on June 24, 2015, the City Council held a public hearing on the
implementation of the Fiscal Year 2015-2016 sewer rates as stated in the three year rate plan;
and
WHEREAS, the rates are reflected in the report of Annual Sewer Rentals and charges are
consistent with the three-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 amends the City's Master Fee
Schedule for sewer service rates.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City Council hereby adopts the Report of Annual
Sewer Rentals and Charges for FY 2015-2016, 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 24th day of
June 2015 by the following vote:
AYES: Councilmembers Karyl Matsumoto and Liza Normandy
Vice Mayor Mark N. Addiego and Mayor Richard A. Garbarino
NOES: None
ABSTAIN: None
ABSENT: Councilmember Pradeep Gupta
ATTEST: °� /
Deputy City Clerk
REPORT OF
SEWER RENTAL CHARGES FOR 2015-2016
IN ACCORDANCE WITH CHAPTER 14.12.70 OF THE
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO MUNICIPAL CODE
In accordance with Chapter 14.12.70 of the South San Francisco Municipal Code, the following
report prepared as of June 8, 2015 is submitted. The report describes the procedure of charging
those parcels of real property, which directly receive the benefits of municipal sanitary sewer
services and the amount of the annual charge or rental, which will be imposed against each
parcel for Fiscal Year 2015-2016.
1. Summary of Rentals or Charges. The following is a summary of the annual rental or
charges for 2015-2016.
All commercial and industrial properties $ 10,557,383
All residential properties, except those serviced
by Westborough County Water District $ 8,877,469
Billed by Statement $ 373,823
Total $ 19,808,675
2. Sewer Rental Account File. This report refers to and incorporates by reference the report
entitled "Rate Determination and Revenue Program Summary," prepared by and on file at
the City of South San Francisco Water Quality Control Plant. The report summarizes the
2015-2016 sewer rental charge that will be proposed to the City Council on June 24,
2015. Upon adoption of the proposed charges, or amendments thereto, a report entitled
"City of South San Francisco Sanitary Sewer Charges", prepared by Engineering Data
Services, Los Altos, California, will be completed. The report will describe by Assessor's
Parcel Number each parcel of real property receiving directly the benefits of municipal
sanitary sewer service and the amount of annual charge or rental imposed against each
parcel for fiscal year 2015-2016. All of these documents, including this report shall be
filed with the County Tax Collector or Auditor. Accompanying the filing of this report
shall be the Clerk's endorsement that the report has been adopted by the City Council.
Dated: 0(0 10 V Z0 f
Richard Lee
Director of Finance
EXHIBIT "A"
PARCEL USE CLASSIFICATION AND ANNUAL RATE/UNIT RATE FY 2015-2016
A. Residential Class:
Single-§pj!f dwellin $575.00 per dwelling—yearly
Multi-family dwelling (duplexes,
flats, apartments, and similar $516,.00 per dwelling per unit- yearly
class of users)
Trailer Court and similar class of $516.00 per dwelling per unit-yearly
uses
B. Institutional Class:
Schools, colleges, rest homes, hospitals, clubs, lodges, and similar class of uses.
Minimum charge, or $575.00 yearly
Volume charge based on water $5.97114 per 100 cubic feet of water
consumed (metered inflow), or consumed
Volume charge based on water $6.6346 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), ear 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 $575.00 per facility - yearly
Volume charge based on water $,7.40277 per 100 cubic feet of water
consumed (metered inflow), or consumed
Volume charge based on water $8.2253 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 $575.00 -
Volume charge based on water $11.5848 per 100 cubic feet of water
consumed (metered inflow), or consumed
Volume charge based on water $12.8721 per 100 cubic feet of water
consumed (metered effluent) consumed
3. Restaurants, Cafes and Other Eating Places:
Minimum char e, or $575.00 -yearly
Volume charge based on water $16.9261 per 100 cubic feet of water
consumed (metered inflow), or consumed
Volume charge based on water $18.8068 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 S575.00 - yearly
of the following;
Volume charge based on water 54.434,3 per 100 cubic feet of water
consumed (metered inflow), or consumed
Volume charge based on water $4.9275 per 100 cubic feet of water
consumed (metered effluent) consumed
Surcharge for suspended solids $1.4887 per pound of suspended solids
(SS) —. discharged
Surcharge for chemical oxygen S0.4598 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 $575.00—yearl _
Volume charge based on waste
water discharge $0.3157 ni-,r onfl
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NOTICE OF
PROPOSED SEWER RATES
zr.Fo and of
PUBLIC HEARING
for the
CITY OF SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO
THE CITY OF SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO GIVES NOTICE that:
1. The City is proposing to maintain its current sewer rate plan. The purpose of the sewer fee is
to finance improvements to the City's sewer collection, pumping and treatment facilities. The
improvements are necessary to comply with State and Federal water quality requirements, to
reduce the overflow of raw sewage during the wet weather season events and to provide
additional reliability of the City's facilities, The improvements include rehabilitation of sewer
collection lines and upgrades to the treatment plant as well as all related administrative,
operational and incidental costs, including the costs of financing the sewer improvements.
2. A description of how the rates are calculated and the schedule of rates are available from the
Water Quality Control Plant located at 195 Belle Air Road, South San Francisco. If the rate
increases are approved, it is proposed that they will commence to be collected with the
property taxes beginning with Fiscal Year 2015-16 and will continue to be collected until
otherwise modified by the City. The sewer rates will not exceed the maximum amounts
shown without another written notice to the property owners.
3. Before taking final action on the proposed rate schedule, the City Council will hold a
PUBLIC HEARING on Wednesday, June 24, 2015, at 7:00 p.m. at the City Council
Chambers, Municipal Services Building, 33 Arroyo Dr., South San Francisco. The
public hearing will be for hearing public testimony. The Council may continue the hearing
from time to time without further written notice.
5. To receive additional information about the proposed rate increase, please contact:
Water Quality Control Plant
South San Francisco, CA 94080
Telephone: (650,) 877-18555
E-mail: sewerrateinfo@ssf net
If you have any questions or wish to submit written correspondence regarding this matter, contact
the City Clerk's Office, P.O. Box 711, South San Francisco, CA 94083, or(650) 877-8518,
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City Clerk-, Ci o oath San Francisco
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PROJECTED RESIDENTIAL SEWER SERVICE CHARGES
IN SAN MATEO COUNTY
(AS OF APRIL 2015)
"TREATING 96 UNITS OF WATER.PER YEAR
AGENCY PROJECTED COSTS IN FY 1.5/16
HILLSBOROUGH $2,173
MONTARA SANITARY FIST. $1,258
P'ACIFICA $1,166
SAN BRUNO $1,080
HALF MOON BAY $1,075
MILLBRAE $971
SAN CARL.OS $969*
BRISBANE $915
MENLO PARK. $893*
BUR.LINGAME $880
REDWOOD CITY $825*
BELMONT $806
SAN MATEO $705
DALY CITY $660
BAYSHORE SANITARY DISTRICT" $605
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO $575*
(With proposed 4%increase)
FOSTER CITY $564*
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO $553*
(Current Charge)
EAST PALO ALTO $550*
AVG.(ALL) $906
*Flat charge per year not tied to individual water consumption.
Other listed rates are annual estffnnates based on homeowners"average"monthly domestic water consumption
charges that can vary from year to year,household to household.(1 unit equals 748 gallons.)
REPORT OF
SEWER RENTAL CHARGES FOR 2015-2016
IN ACCORDANCE WITH CHAPTER 14.12.70 OF THE
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO MUNICIPAL CODE
In accordance with Chapter 14.12.70 of the South San Francisco Municipal Code, the following
report prepared as of June 8, 2015 is submitted, The report describes the procedure of charging
those parcels of real property, which directly receive the benefits of municipal sanitary sewer
services and the amount of the annual charge or rental, which will be imposed against each
parcel for Fiscal Year 2015-2016,
1 Summary of Rentals or Charges, The following is a summary of the annual rental or
charges for 2015-2016.
All commercial and industrial properties $ 10,557,383
All residential properties, except those serviced
by Westborough County Water District $ 8,877,469
Billed by Statement $ 373,823
Total $ 19,808,675
2. Sewer Rental Account File. This report refers to and incorporates by reference the report
entitled "Rate Determination and Revenue Program Summary,"' prepared by and on file at
the City of South San Francisco Water Quality Control Plant. The report summarizes the
2015-2(116 sewer rental charge that will be proposed to the City Council on June 24,
2015. Upon adoption of the proposed charges, or amendments thereto, a report entitled
"City of South San Francisco Sanitary Sewer Charges", prepared by Engineering Data
Services, Los Altos, California,will be completed. The report will describe by Assessor's
Parcel Number each parcel of real property receiving directly the benefits of municipal
sanitary sewer service and the amount of annual charge or rental imposed against each
parcel for fiscal year 2015-201.6. All of these documents, including this report shall be
filed with the County Tax Collector or Auditor. Accompanying the filing of this report
shall be the Clerk's endorsement that the report has been adopted by the City Council,
Dated:
Richard Lee
Director of Finance
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