28-04 Amend 902.04 Rates & Charges - Wastewater

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ORDINANCE NO. 28-04 PLACED ON iST READING & REFERRED TO THE FINANCE COMMIEE 3/15/04. PLACED ON 2ND READING 4/5/04. FitzGerald, Madigan, Seelie. An ORDINANCE to amend section 902.04, Rates and Charges, of the Codified Ordinances of the City of Lakewood for the purpose of adjusting sewer rates charged against each lot, parcel of land or premises which may have an active sewer connection with the Municipal wastewater disposal system or which may otherwise discharge wastewater either directly or indirectly into such system or any part thereof. WHEREAS, the current sewer rate is insufficient to allow the Wastewater Treatment Fund and Wastewater Collections System Fund to continue to be self- supporting; and WHEREAS, in order to offset the continuing general increases in operating cost of the wastewater treatment facilities it is necessary for the City to increase the rates charged to the users of the wastewater disposal system as well as provide for the anticipated annual capital needs for the wastewater collection system; and WHEREAS, Chapter 902 of the Codified Ordinances authorizes the City to set sewer rates to distribute the costs of operation and maintenance of the wastewater disposal system and the costs to maintain compliance with applicable standards and regulations of the U.S~ E.P.A. proportionately upon all users of said system. Now therefore, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF LAKEWOOD, STATE OF OHIO Section 1. That Section 902.04, Rates and Charges, of the Codified Ordinances of the City of Lakewood Currently reads as follows: 902.04 RATES AND CHARGES (a) The Director of Public Works is hereby authorized to annually establish sewer rates charged by the Lakewood Division of Water ~nd Wastewater Collections and the Lakewood Division of Wastewater Treatment. (1) Such charges and rates shall be made against each lot, parcel of land or premises which may have an active sewer connection with the Municipal wastewater disposal system or which may otherwise discharge wastewater either directly or indirectly into such system or any part thereof. (2) Such charges and rates shall be based on all water used during each one month billing pedod. (3) Such rates shall be charged monthly. (b) Any lot, parcel of land or premises discharging into the sanitary sewer but not using City water wholly or partly shall, at his own expense be required to install meters or other measuring devices approved by the City Engineer to measure either the water or the discharge to the sanitary sewer. (c) Any lot, parcel of land or premises desidng credit for water consumed for purposes where the water is not returned to the sanitary sewer, shall at his own expense, separately meter the water for such uses. (d) Effective February 1, 1996, sewer rates charged by the Lakewood Division of ~Vater and Wastewater Collections shall be billed at a rate of not more than one and forty-seven hundredths dollars ($1.47) per one hundred cubic feet of metered water consumption. Shall be and is hereby amended to read as follows: 902.04RATES AND CHARGES