Sewer charges shall be used for deriving revenues for financing and maintaining sewage collection and treatment facilities. The funds derived from these charges shall be used for all municipal expenses associated with constructing, improving or maintaining a sewage system, including engineering, planning, construction, reconstruction of sewers and sewage treatment works and all necessary appurtenances thereto, including pumping stations, extensions, enlargement, replacement or additions to the sanitary sewer systems, or the preliminary or other studies and surveys relative thereto and for the acquisition of land or rights-of-way for any of the capital improvements.
[Adopted 3-7-1988 by L.L. No. 3-1988]
Sewer charges shall be levied on owners of properties located within or without the sewer improvement areas or district boundaries who contribute sewage to the public sewers, and a capital cost amortization charge which shall be levied on all owners of properties within the sewer improvement areas or district boundaries.
A.
The sewer user charge shall be used to fund the cost of operation, maintenance and equipment replacement cost of the sewage treatment plant and of the gravity sewers.
B.
The capital cost amortization charge shall be used to fund the cost or retirement of capital funds used in constructing and improving the sewage collection treatment facilities.
[Amended 7-6-1989 by L.L. No. 4-1989; 9-17-1990 by L.L. No. 6-1990; 6-8-1998 by L.L. No. 1-1998; 6-5-2000 by L.L. No. 2-2000; 8-28-2006 by L.L. No. 12-2006; 3-10-2008; 1-13-2025 by L.L. No. 1-2025]
A.
Charges.
(1)
The rate of charges for Village sewer use shall be established and revised from time to time by the Village Board of Trustees by resolution. The charges shall be made available for public disclosure at the Village Government Center during normal business hours.
(2)
(Reserved)
(3)
(Reserved)
(4)
The above rates shall not apply to outside Village users which are subject to negotiation.
B.
Sewer user charges shall be billed to users quarter-annually.
C.
Each user will be notified, at least annually, in conjunction with a regular bill, of the rate and that portion of the user charges which are attributable to wastewater treatment services.
A.
The village shall review the total annual cost of operation and maintenance as well as each user's wastewater contribution percentage not less often than every two years and will revise the system as necessary to assure equity of the service charge system established herein and to assure that sufficient funds are obtained to adequately operate and maintain the wastewater treatment works. If it is determined that excess revenues have been collected from a class of users, the excess revenues from that class of users shall be applied to the costs of operation and maintenance attributable to that class for the next year, and the rate charges to such users shall be adjusted accordingly.
B.
The operation and maintenance costs for all flow not directly attributable to users (i.e., infiltration-inflow) shall be distributed among all users in the same fashion as the operation and maintenance charge. The total operation and maintenance cost, including the cost to transport and treat extraneous inflow-infiltration, will be apportioned by the unit system given in § 222-68.