[CC 2008 § 22-92; Ord. No. 385, § 1]
It is determined and declared to be necessary and conducive
to the protection of the public health, safety, welfare and convenience
of the City to collect charges from all users who contribute wastewater
to the City's treatment works. The proceeds of such charges so derived
will be used for the purpose of operating, maintaining and such public
wastewater treatment works.
[CC 2008 § 22-93; Ord. No. 385, § 2]
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning
of terms used in this Article shall be as follows:
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five (5)
days at twenty degrees Celsius (20° C.), expressed in milligrams
per liter (mg/l).
Wastewater that has a BOD concentration of not more than
two hundred fifty (250) mg/l and a suspended solids concentration
of not more than two hundred fifty (250) mg/l.
All expenditures during the useful life of the treatment
works for materials, labor, utilities, and other items which are necessary
for managing and maintaining the sewage works to achieve the capacity
and performance for which such works were designed and constructed.
Expenditures for obtaining and installing equipment, accessories,
or appurtenances which are necessary during the useful life of the
treatment works to maintain the capacity and performance for which
such works were designed and constructed. The term "operation and
maintenance" includes replacement.
Any contributor to the City's treatment works whose lot,
parcel of real estate, or building is used for domestic dwelling purposes
only.
Is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
Solids that either float on the surface of or are in suspension
in water, sewage, or other liquids and which are removable by laboratory
filtering.
Any devices and systems for the storage, treatment, recycling,
and reclamation of municipal sewage, domestic sewage, or liquid industrial
wastes. These include intercepting sewers, outfall sewers, sewage
collection systems, individual systems, pumping, power, and other
equipment and their appurtenances, extensions improvement, remodeling,
additions and alterations thereof; elements essential to provide a
reliable recycled supply such as standby treatment units and clear
well facilities; and any works, including site acquisition of the
land that will be an integral part of the treatment process or is
used for ultimate disposal of residues resulting from such treatment
(including land for composting sludge, temporary storage of such compost,
and land used for the storage of treated wastewater in land treatment
systems before land application); or any other method or system for
preventing, abating, reducing, storing, treating, separating, or disposing
of municipal waste or industrial waste, including waste in combined
stormwater and sanitary sewer systems.
The estimated period during which a treatment works will
be operated.
A water volume measuring and recording device, furnished
and/or installed by the City of Bland or furnished and/or installed
by a user and approved by the City of Bland.
[CC 2008 § 22-94; Ord. No. 385, § 3]
A.
The user charge system shall generate adequate annual revenues to
pay costs of annual operation and maintenance, including replacement
costs associated with financing the treatment works which the City
may by ordinance designate to be paid by the user charge system. That
portion of the total user charge which is designated for operation
and maintenance including replacement of the treatment works shall
be established by this Article.
B.
That portion of the total user charge collected which is designated for operation and maintenance including replacement purposes as established in Section 720.040, shall be deposited in a separate non-lapsing fund known as the "Operation, Maintenance and Replacement Fund" and will be kept in two (2) primary account as follows:
1.
An account designated for the specific purpose of defraying
operation and maintenance costs (excluding replacement) of the treatment
works (Operation and Maintenance Account).
2.
An account designated for the specific purpose of ensuring replacement
needs over the useful life of the treatment works (Replacement Account).
Deposits in the replacement account shall be made annually, from the
operation, maintenance and replacement revenue in the amount of six
hundred sixty dollars ($660.00) annually.
3.
Fiscal year-end balances in the operation and maintenance account
and the replacement account shall be carried over to the same accounts
in the subsequent fiscal year, and shall be used for no other purposes
than those designated for these accounts. Monies which have been transferred
from other sources to meet temporary shortages in the operation, maintenance
and replacement fund shall be returned to their respective accounts
upon appropriate adjustment of the user charge rates for operation,
maintenance and replacement. The user charge rate(s) shall be adjusted
such that the transferred monies will be returned to their respective
accounts within the fiscal year following the fiscal year in which
the monies were borrowed.
[CC 2008 § 22-95; Ord. No. 385, § 4]
A.
Each user shall pay for the services provided by the City based on
his use of the treatment works (as determined by water meters) acceptable
to the City.
B.
For residential contributors, quarterly user charges will be based
on average quarterly water usage during the current quarterly period.
Quarterly period shall be defined as a period of water usage covering
three (3) calendar months. This usage shall be determined by the water
meter. For industrial and commercial contributors, user charges shall
be based on water used during the current quarterly period. If a commercial
or industrial contributor has a consumptive use of water, or in some
other manner uses water which is not returned to the wastewater collection
system, the user charge for that contributor may be based on a wastewater
meter(s) or separate water meter(s) installed and maintained at the
contributor's expense, and in a manner acceptable to the City of Bland.
C.
There shall be no minimum charge per three-month period. Each contributor
shall pay a user charge rate for operation and maintenance including
replacement of seventy-five cents ($0.75) per one thousand (1,000)
gallons of water used during the current three-month period.
D.
(Reference is made to Appendix A.[1]) For those contributors who contribute wastewater, the
strength of which is greater than normal domestic sewage, a surcharge
in addition to the normal user charge will be collected. The surcharge
for operation and maintenance including replacement is:
[1]
Editor's Note: Said Appendix is on file in the City offices.
E.
Any user which discharges any toxic pollutants which cause an increase
in the cost of managing the effluent or the sludge from the City's
treatment works, or any user which discharges any substances which
singly or by interaction with other substances causes identifiable
increases in the cost of operation, maintenance, or replacement of
the treatment works, shall pay for such increased costs. The charge
to each such user shall be as determined by the responsible plant
operating personnel and approved by the Board of Aldermen.
F.
The user charge rates established in this Article apply to all users,
regardless of their location, of the City's treatment works.
[CC 2008 § 22-96; Ord. No. 385, § 5]
A.
All users shall be billed quarterly [every three (3) months]. Billings
for any particular quarterly period shall be made within thirty (30)
days after the end of that quarterly period. Payments are due when
the billings are made. Any payment not received within thirty (30)
days after the billing is made shall be delinquent.
B.
A late payment penalty of ten percent (10%) of the user charge bill
will be added to each thirty (30) days of delinquency. When any bill
is thirty (30) days in default, rendition of water and/or sewer service
to such premises shall be discontinued until such bill is paid, following
due notice and opportunity for hearing. The City shall have the option
of switching to a monthly billing system at any time by adopting an
ordinance which will change that element of the User Charge Ordinance.
[CC 2008 § 22-97; Ord. No. 385, § 6]
A.
The City will review the user charge system [every two (2) years]
and revise user charge rates as necessary to ensure that the system
generates adequate revenues to pay the costs of operation and maintenance,
including replacement, and that the system continues to provide for
the proportional distribution of operation and maintenance including
replacement costs among users and user classes.
B.
The City will notify each user at least every year, in conjunction
with a regular bill, of the rate being charged for operation, maintenance
including replacement of the treatment works.
[CC 2008 § 22-98; Ord. No. 385, § 7]
This Article shall be in full force and effect from and after
its passage and approval. This Article shall take precedence over
any terms or conditions of agreements or contracts between the grantee
and users which are inconsistent with the requirements of the Clean
Water Act and corresponding regulations. Any ordinance or parts thereof
in conflict with this Article are hereby repealed.
[Ord. No. 607, 7-16-2019]
It is determined and declared to be necessary and conducive
to the protection of the public health, safety, welfare, and convenience
of the City of Bland to collect charges from all users who use the
City's potable water facilities. The proceeds of such charges so derived
will be used for the purpose of operating, maintaining, and retiring
the debt for such public water facilities.
[Ord. No. 607, 7-16-2019]
Unless the context specifically indicated otherwise, the meaning
of terms used in this Article shall be as follows:
Shall be defined as the equivalent water usage of an average
residential household. The usage volume shall be six thousand six
hundred sixty (6,660) gallons per month as defined per 10 CSR 20-8.020(11)(B)3
and 10 CSR 20-8.020(11)(B)4 of the Missouri Code of State Regulations
and MO-DNR, Public Drinking Water Program, Design Guide for Community
Water Systems, Chapter 1, Section 1.1.2, d.,3. The City, with the
assistance of its Engineer, shall determine household equivalents
of non-residential customers. Household equivalency will be rounded
to the nearest whole number and used as a multiplier to the City's
base user rate.
All expenditures during the useful life of the system for
materials, labor, utilities, and other items which are necessary for
managing and maintaining the system to achieve the capacity and performance
for which system was designed and constructed.
Expenditures for obtaining and installing equipment, accessories,
or appurtenances which are necessary during the useful life of the
system to maintain the capacity and performance for which such works
were designed and constructed. The term "operation and maintenance"
includes replacement.
Any user of the City's water system whose, lot, parcel of
real estate, or building is used for domestic dwelling purposes only.
Is mandatory; "May" is permissive.
The estimated period during which the supply, storage, distribution
and treatment infrastructure will be operated.
The total water service charge which is levied in a proportional
and adequate manner for the cost of administration, debt service,
operation, maintenance, and replacement of the water system.
A water volume measuring and recording device furnished and/or
installed by the City or furnished and/or installed by a user and
approved by the City.
Any devices and systems for the storage, treatment, recycling,
transmission, and distribution of water. These include transmission
and distribution lines, individual systems, pumping, power, and other
equipment and their appurtenances; extensions, improvements, remodeling,
additions, and alterations thereof; elements essential to provide
a reliable water supply such as standby treatment units and any works,
including site acquisition of land that will be part of the treatment
process.
[Ord. No. 607, 7-16-2019]
A.
The user charge system shall generate adequate annual revenues to
pay the costs of annual operation and maintenance including replacement
and cost associated with debt retirement of bonded capital associated
with financing the facilities which the City may be ordinance designate
to be paid by the user charge system. The total user charge, which
is designated for administration, debt service, operation and maintenance,
including replacement of the facilities, shall be established by this
Article.
B.
That portion of the total user charge collected which is designated for operation and maintenance including replacement purposes as established in Section 720.110, shall be deposited in a non-lapsing fund known as the "Water System Revenue Fund," and will be kept in two primary accounts as follows:
1.
An account designated for the specific purpose of defraying
operation and maintenance costs excluding replacement of the water
system shall be a Principal and Interest Account for the Water System.
2.
An account shall be designated for the specific purpose of ensuring
replacement needs over the useful life of the water system infrastructure
known as the "Replacement Account." Deposits in the replacement revenue
in the amount designated in the Appendix[1] annually.
[1]
Editor's Note: Said Appendix is on file in the City offices.
C.
All interest accrued by the various accounts will be utilized for
the operation and maintenance of the City's potable water system.
Any account that pays more interest than the City is paying in interest
to the bondholders shall be brought to the attention of the City's
accounting firm. Rules will then be promulgated so that adequate safeguards
are in place to meet the requirements of the Internal Revenue Service.
D.
Fiscal year-end balances in all accounts shall be carried over to
the same accounts in the subsequent fiscal year and shall be used
for no other purposes than those designated for these accounts. Monies,
which have been transferred from one account(s) to another, in a temporary
effort to meet temporary shortages, will be transferred back to the
original accounts as soon as funds are available. Every effort will
be made to see that any temporary movement of funds between accounts
is accomplished within the same fiscal year.
[Ord. No. 607, 7-16-2019]
A.
Each user shall pay for the services provided by the City based on
their use of the facilities as determined by water meter(s) acceptable
to the City.
B.
User charges shall be based on water used during the current month.
C.
Charges.
1.
The minimum charge per month for a normal residential or light
commercial customer shall be $417.35. In addition, each contributor
shall pay a user charge for operation and maintenance including replacement
of four dollars and ten cents ($4.10) per one thousand (1,000) gallons
of water as determined in the preceding section. The minimum charge
per month shall apply per home equivalency regardless of how many
units are connected to the water system or billed. As an example,
if a facility has a home equivalency of 4, there would be a minimum
charge of sixty-nine dollars forty cents ($69.40) or (4 x $17.35)
plus the actual user charge of four dollars and ten cents ($4.10)
per one thousand (1,000) gallons.
2.
The minimum base charge and proportional operation and maintenance
charge may be phased in over a period of months as determined by the
Board of Aldermen.
D.
The user charge rates established in this Article apply to all users
of the City's facilities within the City's incorporated limits. Users
outside the City's incorporated limits will pay double the minimum
base and the same prorated usage rates of those within he/she incorporated
limits.
E.
Should a water meter not be available to determine actual water usage,
the user shall pay the minimum base rate plus the prorated usage rate.
The monthly water volume used to calculate the monthly user fee for
a residential user shall be six thousand six hundred sixty (6,660)
gallons per month as defined per 10 CSR 20-8.020(11)(B)3 and 10 CSR
20-8.020(11)(B)4 of the Missouri Code of State Regulations and MO-DNR,
Public Drinking Water Program, Design Guide for Community Water Systems,
Chapter 1, Section 1,1.2,d.,3. This monthly volume shall be multiplied
by the number of occupancy units in a facility being served. If occupancy
units cannot be determined, the City's Engineer will make an estimated
volume determination based on MO-DNR or accepted professional recommended
design guides and tables for the particular type of commercial or
industrial facility being served.
[Ord. No. 607, 7-16-2019]
A.
All users shall pay their monthly user charge on a monthly basis.
Payments for each month shall be the 15th of each month. Disconnection
is on the first day of the following month. Any payment not received
within thirty (30) days after the due date shall be delinquent.
B.
A late payment penalty of ten dollars ($10.00) will be added to each
delinquent bill on the 16th of each month. If any bills for services
shall remain unpaid by the end of the month following the rendition
of the bill therefor, delinquent users will have service terminated
on the last day of the month or the first business day thereafter
on which the bill is due and payable. Any service that is discontinued
shall only be connected when the outstanding balance is received along
with a service charge that shall be determined by the City.
[Ord. No. 607, 7-16-2019]
A.
The City shall review the user charge system annually and revise
user charge rates as necessary to ensure that the system generates
adequate revenues to pay the costs of operation and maintenance, including
replacement, and that the system continues to provide for the proportional
distribution of operation and maintenance including replacement costs
among users.
B.
The City will notify each user at least annually, in conjunction
with a regular bill, of the rate being charged for operation and maintenance,
including replacement of the wastewater facilities.
