HomeMy WebLinkAboutReso 80-2011 RESOLUTION NO. 80 -2011
CITY COUNCIL, CITY OF SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, STATE OF CALIFORNIA
A RESOLUTION ESTABLISHING INCREASED SEWER
RATES EFFECTIVE FISCAL YEAR 2011 -2012, AMENDING
THE MASTER FEE SCHEDULE TO INCLUDE THE RATES;
AND ADOPTING A REPORT OF ANNUAL SEWER RENTALS
OR CHARGES FOR FISCAL YEAR 2011 -2012
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 2011, as required by law, notice of the proposed increase and the
public hearing was published in a newspaper of general circulation; and
WHEREAS, the City Council has given notice and on June 22, 2011, 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 approve the schedule of rates set forth in the attached Exhibit "A" which
implements the previously approved financing plan, and herby amends the City's Master Fee
Schedule to include the rates.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City Council hereby adopts the Report of Annual
Sewer Rentals and Charges for Fiscal Year 2011 -2012, 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 22 day of
June 2011 by the following vote:
AYES: Councilmembers Mark Addiego and Pedro Gonzalez,
Vice Mayor Richard A. Garbarino and Mayor Kevin Mullin
NOES: None
ABSTAIN: None
ABSENT: Councilmember Karyl Matsumoto
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EXHIBIT "A"
PARCEL USE CLASSIFICATION AND ANNUAL RATE /UNIT RATE
A. Residential Class:
Single - fancily 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
I 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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THE CITY OF SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO GIVES NOTICE that:
1. The City is proposing to increase sewer rates. The purpose of the proposed increase 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, upgrades to pump stations, and upgrades to the treatment plant as well as all
related administrative and incidental costs, including the costs of financing the sewer
improvements.
2. A description of how the rates are calculated and the proposed schedule of rate increases are
available at 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 2011-12 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 increase, the City Council will hold a
PUBLIC HEARING on Wednesday, June 22, 2011, at 7:00 p.m. in the City Council
Chambers, Municipal Services Building, 33 Arroyo Dr., So. San Francisco. The Public
Hearing will be for hearing public testimony on the proposed sewer rate increase. The
Council may continue the hearing from time to time without further written notice.
4. Any property owner may file with the City Clerk, at any time before the end of the Public
Hearing, written comments regarding the proposed rate increase which will be made present
and heard at the public meeting.
5. To get additional information about the proposed rate increase, contact:
David Castagnola
Water Quality Control Plant Superintendent
South San Francisco, CA 94080
Telephone: (650) 877-8555
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City of South San Francisco
Proposed Sewer Rate Increase
Residential Rates.
Rates for residential properties are calculated by multiplying the number of dwelling units on each property by the annual rate. The dwelling unit rate for Single
Residential and Multiple Residential assumes an "average" annual effluent flow of 8,400 cubic feet, The trailer unit rate assumes an "average" annual effluent
flow of 7500 cubic feet.
Commercial and Institutional Rates.
Restaurant, Institutional and Commercial Rates are calculated by: A) Measuring the annual water use at each property and multiplying this usage by the inflow
rate; or by B) Measuring the annual sewer flow from each property and multiplying by the effluent rate,
Industrial Rates.
Industrial Rates are calculated based on the annual amount of flow, chemical oxygen demand and solids from each property. Separate sewer rates are
calculated for each component and then added for the total sewer fee per assessor's parcel. Annual measurement and testing are performed at each
assessor's parcel to confirm the flow and loading.
Septage Rates.
Septage rates are calculated by multiplying the gallons of flow discharged from the septic pumper by the septage rate.
Proposed Sewer Rate Iricreases over the next 5 years
Proposed Proposed Proposed Proposed
Existing Rate Maximum Rate Maximum Rate Maximum Rate Maximum Rate
Basis of Rate Caluclation 2009 - 2010 2010-2011 3011-2012 2012-2013 2013-2014
User group - (Unit) VI/nit/Year � 5/Unit/Year _ VWn�ty��mr $/0n)��emr 5/Unit/Year
Single & Multiple Residence Dwelling Unit 461 507 532 532 532 .
Trailer Units Trailer Unit 413 454 477 477 477
Restaurants Hundred Cubic Feet Inflow 13.957 15.353 16.121 16.121 16.121
or effluent 15507 17.058 17.911 17.911 17.911
Institutional Hundred Cubic Feet Inflow 4.924 5.416 5.687 5.687 5.687
or effluent 5.470 . 6.017 6.318 6'318 6.318
Light Strength Commercial Hundred Cubic Feet Inflow 6.102 6.712 7.048 7.048 7.048
or effluent 6J82 7.461 7.834 7.834 7.834
Moderate Strength Commercial Hundred Cubic Feet Inflow 9.552 10.507 11.033 11.033 11.033
or effluent 10.614 11.675 12.259 12.259 12.259
Industrial
Flow Hundred Cubic Feet Inflow 3.8564 4.0220 4.2231 4.2231 4.2231
or effluent 4.0832 4.4095 4.6830 4.6030 4.6930
chemical Oxygen Demand Pounds 0.379 0.417 0.438 0.438 0.438
Solids Pounds 1.227 1.350 1.417 1.417 1.417
Septage Haulers ' Gallons 0.250 0.286 0301 0.301 0.301
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PROJECTED RESIDENTIAL RATE PAYER SURVEY
SEWER SERVICE CHARGES
SAN MATEO COUNTY
(AS OF MAY 2011)
TREATING 84 UNITS OF WATER PER YEAR
AGENCY PROJECTED COSTS IN FY 11/12
MONTARA SANITARY DIST. $2.914
HILLSBOROUGH $1,658*
BURLINGAME HILLS $1,150*
MILLBRAE $913
PACIFICA $893
BRISBANE $740
SAN BRUNO $680
BURLINGANIE $675
MENLO PARK $650*
HALF MOON BAY $621
REDWOOD CITY $585*
BELMONT $572
SAN CARLOS $562*
FOSTER CITY $553*
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO $532*
(with proposed 5% increase)
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO $507*
(Current Charge)
EAST PALO ALTO S485*
SAN MATEO $450
DALY CITY $405
EL GRANADA SANITARY $365*
AVG. (ALL) $796
AVG. (LESS TOP THREE) $599
AVG. (LESS TOP 3 $628
AND LOWER 2)
*Flat charge per year not tied to individual water consumption.
Other listed rates are annual estimates based on homeowners "average" monthly domestic water consumption
charges that can vary from year to year, household to household. (1 unit equals 748 gallons.)
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REPORT OF
SEWER RENTAL CHARGES FOR 2011-2012
IN ACCORDANCE WITH CHAPTER 14A2.70 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 1, 2011 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 2011-2012.
1. Summary of Rentals or Charges. The following is a summary of the annual rental or
charges for 2011-2012.
All commercial and industrial properties $ 9,960,627
All residential properties, except those serviced
by Westborough County Water District $ 8,761,779
Billed by Statement $ 346.117
Total $19,068,523
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
2011-2012 sewer rental charge that will be proposed to the City Council on June 22,
2011. 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 he 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 2011-2012. 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: June 1. 2011
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Jim'Steele
Director of Finance
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