Amending the Monthly Sewer Insurance Customer Rate Addressed in Chapter 17

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• BILL NO. ORDINANCE NO. 8343--9A AN ORDINANCE OF THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA AMENDING THE MONTHLY SEWER INSURANCE CUSTOMER RATE ADDRESSED IN CHAPTER 17, ARTICLE 7, SECTION 17-56 (a) OF THE SOUTH BEND MUNICIPAL CODE. STATEMENT OF PURPOSE AND INTENT The Bureau of Sewers currently collects fifty cents ( $ .50) per month from all sewer service customers who are not industrial or bulk water customers. This charge is collected and deposited in a separate fund of the Bureau of Sewers. This fund is used solely to address the repair and/or replacement of failing private sewer connections and also addresses the administrative and inspection costs associated with this program. The purpose of this Ordinance is to amend the current monthly customer charge of fifty cents ($ . 50) per month to a monthly charge of seventy-one cents ( $.71) per month so as to eliminate a negative cash balance situation. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, as follows: Section I. Chapter 17, Article 7, Section 17-56 (a) of the South Bend Municipal Code shall be, and hereby is, amended to read as follows: Section 17-56 Purpose, assessment of charges; deposit in separate fund. (a) The sum of fifty-eeats-+$9-594 seventy-one cents ( $0.71) per month shall be added to sewer service charges for all sewer users which are not industrial or bulk water customers. All of said sums of money so collected shall be deposited in a separate fund of the Bureau of Sewers. (b) All funds collected under section 17-60 of this article, "Charges to private sewer owner; payment," shall also be deposited in this separate fund of the Bureau of Sewers. (c) All of said sums of money so collected shall be deposited in a separate fund of the Bureau of Sewers, and said fund shall be used solely to address the repair and/or replacement of failing private sewer connections, and to address administrative and inspection costs associated with this program. Section II. This Ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage by the Common Council and approval by the Mayor.