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a... Council Minutes of 10-04-2011 Cabin. Bid opening is scheduled for November 2, 2011. The committee voted 3- 0 for approval of Resolution 2011-102 with suspension. The meeting adjourned at 7:10 p.m. Councilman Orlowski, Chairman of the Environmental Control Committee: The Environmental Control Committee met Tuesday, September 27, 2011 at 7:30 p.m. Present were committee members Orlowski, Barker and Brossard; Council President Limpert; Council members Kearney, Mahoney, Schumann and Williamson; Mayor Kennedy, Finance Director Copfer, Safety/Service Director Thomas and Scott Ankrum of Hazen and Sawyer. • Discussed was Ordinance 2011-74 which an Ordinance amending section 915.04 of the Codified Ordinances of the City of North Olmsted to establish revised charges for the use of the Municipal sanitary sewer system; repealing existing Section 915.04 of the Codified Ordinances; and declaring an emergency. This is a follow-up on the original 2007 sewer rate study and was prepared in 2009. Several of the reasons for this rate review are: 1) to be fiscally responsible, to ensure adequate funds are available for maintenance, operation and debt service costs plus funding for future I and I projects, 2) there is an estimated 2% decline in users and/or usage, 3) to revise the agreement between North Olmsted and Fair- view Park & Olmsted Township to fully recapture all associated costs and enforce more stringent I and I programs to limit the influx of ground water to our sewage plant, 4) to ensure sub-meters and certain sewer users are included in the new rate structure, and 5) the usage of less than 1-MCF of water per quarter is being addressed, the debt service cost is a fixed cost and remains the same for all classes of users. The operating & maintenance costs will be pro-rated based on the usage of less than 1-MCF of water per quarter and is based on a percentage of 1-MCF used. The user charges will increase each year, incrementally, by 11.3% for years 2012, 2013, and 2014, 6.1% for 2015 and 3% beginning in 2016. All of which is subject to an annual review of percentages of increase based on current usage and revenue generated against fixed & variable costs. Fairview Park and Olmsted Township are not part of our collection system and will only be paying 75% of the estimated percentages. The Waste Water Treatment Plant is currently securing volume of flow from these two Cities to compare the information with the volume of water consumed from the Cleveland Water Department which is our basis for billing for treated water, but, may not be in line with the recapture of the costs for treating the volume of water which is being treated. This information will enable us to seek remedies for the volume of I and I entering the system from these two communities. This information will enable an estimate of costs to establish study rates for these two communities. The Chapel Hill Drive parallel sewer addition is estimated to be apprx. 300 feetlong and run from the pump station to Winton Park Drive. The cost is estimated to be apprx. $ 250,00.00 to $ 500,000.00. Due to the late discovery of the problem, it will be part of phase two and included in the plant biddings next year. I hope the administration can prepare an easy to read explanation of the annual percentage of 4