HomeMy WebLinkAboutSub. Bill No. 66-16 New Water RatesCITY OF SOUTH BFND PETE BUTTIGIEG, MAYOR
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS
Eric Horvath, Director
March 7, 2017
Mr. Tim Scott
President, South Bend Common Council
41h Floor, County -City Building
South Bend, IN 46601
Re: Bill No. 66 -16 Water Rates & Charges
Dear President Scott:
Filed in Clerk's Office
MAR 0 8 2017
KAREEMAH FOWLER
CITY CLERK, SOUTH BEND, IN
I am requesting that Bill No. 66 -16, an Ordinance amending various sections of the South Bend
Municipal Code at Chapter 17, Articles 4 and 6 to address new Water Rates & Charges, that was
continued indefinitely, be heard at the Council Utilities Committee meeting and placed on the
Council Agenda for 2nd and 3rd hearing on March 13, 2017.
In consideration of Council requests, I will be submitting a substitute bill that reflects a 20%
increase in year 1 and an additional 20% increase in year 2. 1 have discussed these changes with
most of the Council members, and I will present changes to the ordinance at the committee
meeting. If you have any further questions or need additional information, please let me know.
As always, thank you for your consideration.
Sincerely,
ric C. Hor th
City of South Bend
Executive Director Public Works
Substitute Bill No. 66 -16
ORDINANCE NO.
AN ORDINANCE OF THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA AMENDING VARIOUS
SECTIONS OF THE SOUTH BEND MUNICIPAL CODE AT
CHAPTER 17, ARTICLES 4 AND 6 TO ADDRESS
NEW WATER RATES AND CHARGES
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE AND INTENT
The City of South Bend owns and operates a water utility and this Council has caused to
be prepared a study which recommends new water rates and charges. Per the recommendations of
this study, the City has determined that water rates and charges should be increased per the revised
rates set forth herein, and those should become the new water rates and charges, subject to approval
of the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission ( "IURC "). This Ordinance also reinserts former
Article 6 of Municipal Code Chapter 17 covering a water service charge to be used for repair or
replacement of leaking water service lines. These provisions which were previously, inadvertently
deleted, are codified at their former location within the Municipal Code, i.e., Chapter 17, Article
6, Sections 17 -44 through 17 -49. This reinserted Article 6 may also be subject to IURC approval.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by the Common Council of the City of South
Bend:
SECTION I. Chapter 17, Article 4, Section 17 -45 of the South Bend Municipal Code
shall be amended to read in its entirety as follows:
Sec. 17 -45. Water Works rates and charges.
There shall be and are hereby established for the use of and the services rendered by the Water
Works System of the City of South Bend, the following rates and charges, based upon the use of
water and facilities furnished by said Water Works System:
(a) Usage per Monthly Rate per
Billing Period 100 Cubic Feet
upon effective date)
First 500 cubic feet ..... $1.716 2.094
Next 1,500 cubic feet .....1.490 1.818
Next 5,500 cubic feet .....1.310 1.598
Next 22,500 cubic feet .....1� 1.407
Next 90,000 cubic feet .....0.905 1.104
Rate per 100 Cubic Feet
(12 months after effective date,)
2.554
2.218
1.950
1.716
1.347
Over 120,000 cubic feet ...0.701 0.855 1.043
(b) Minimum charge:
Meter size Allowed Usage Minimum Monthly
(in cubic feet won effective date)
5/8 -inch meter ..$7.76
452 9.46
Minimum Monthly
(12 months a ter
Effective date)
11.54
3/4 -inch meter ..... 11.19 675 13.65 16.65
1 -inch meter .....19.90 1,260 24.28 29.63
1 %2 -inch meter .....442 3,053 54.56 66.57
2 -inch meter .....79.54 5,711 97.04 118.39
3 -inch meter .....178.96 14,090 218.33 266.37
4 -inch meter .....348.16 26,163 388.16 473.56
6 -inch meter ..... 71-6 02 69,073 873.54 1,065.72
8 -inch meter .....1 ,5 133,701 1,553.00 1,894.66
10 -inch meter .....1,988 235,781 2,426.01 2,959.73
12 -inch meter .....10 360,542 3,492.99 4,261.45
(c) Computation of charges. Metered water charges shall be the larger of the minimum
charges of Subsection (b) and or the rate charges of Subsection (a) of this Section. In the
case of multiple meters under a single billing entity, the charges shall be computed for
each meter separately, not the summation of usage.
(d) Monthly public fire protection charges. All customers located within the corporate limits
and all customers outside the corporate limits and located within one thousand (1,000)
feet of a public fire hydrant shall also pay a monthly public fire protection charge based
upon the size of the customer's meter as follows:
Upon Effective 12 Months
date After effective date
5/8 -inch connection .....$2.25 - 2.75 3.35
% -inch connection .....2 -23 2.75 3.35
1 -inch connection .....�77 7.04 8.59
1 %2 -inch connection .....12.98 15.84 19.32
2 -inch connection .....23.96 28.13 34.32
3 -inch connection .....551..-90 63.32 77.25
ON
4 -inch connection .....92.28 112.58 137.35
6 -inch connection .....207.6-2 253.30 309.02
8 -inch connection .....3.69.08 450.28 549.34
10 -inch connection .....5766.70 703.57 858.36
(e) Private Fire Protection Service, Automatic Sprinkler, per annum.
1 -inch connection ..... 5.62 43.46 53.02
2 -inch connection .....71.77 87.56 106.82
3 -inch connection ..... 143.53 175.11 213.63
4 -inch connection .....286.860 349.90 426.87
6 -inch connection .....355.56 433.78 529.22
8 -inch connection .....610.60 744.93 908.82
10 -inch connection .....9 -54.38 1,164.34 1,420.50
12 -inch connection ..... 1,375.98 1,678.70 2,048.01
(f) Temporary Service. Temporary service where metered shall be calculated upon the
registration of a meter or meters installed at the approved meter rates. In such cases as the
Utility may deem it impracticable to install a meter for temporary service, there shall be
a minimum monthly charge of twenty -nine dollars ($29.00). If the water consumption
computed at approved rates is known to be in excess of the twenty -nine dollars ($29.00)
minimum charge, an authorized agent of the Utility shall have the right to estimate said
water usage and the estimated usage shall be billed at the approved meter rates.
SECTION II. Chapter 17, Article 4, Section 17 -46 of the South Bend Municipal Code shall
be amended to read in its entirety as follows:
Sec. 17 -46. Collection or deferred payment charge.
All bills for water services, not paid within five (5) days from the due date thereof, as stated
in such bills, shall be subject to a collection or deferred payment charge of six (6) per-eent ef the
euffent mend"'" bill. ten percent (10 %) of the first three dollars ($3.00) of the water charge and
three percent (3 %) on anv amount in excess of three dollars ($3.00) of the water charge. All bills
for water services which are turned over to a collection agency shall be subject to a collection
charge equal to twenty (20) percent of the unpaid bill.
SECTION M. Chapter 17, Article 4, Section 17 -46.1 shall be amended to read in its entirety
as follows:
See. 17 -46.1 Suburban rates.
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Customers with water service outside the City limits shall incur an additional surcharge of
tweftt-y (20) ereent fourteen percent (14 %) of the rates and charges. The surcharge is to recover
additional costs including capital expenditures incurred by the Water Works to furnish services to
customers outside the City limits.
SECTION IV. Chapter 17, Article 4, Section 17 -46.4 shall be deleted in its entirety and is
not replaced.
SECTION V. Chapter 17, Article 4, Section 17 -47 of the South Bend Municipal Code shall
be amended to read in its entirety as follows:
Sec. 17 -47. Nonrecurring charges.
(a) Deposits: Security deposits, payable upon service initiation and refundable upon service
termination, shall be no more than one -sixth of the estimated annual bill for each meter
size. Governmental entities shall be exempt from deposits.
Tap charges: The charge for installation of a one -inch tap shall be three htffidr-ed seventy
dellars ($37 Five hundred dollars ($500:00), which shall include the installed tapping
valve and the material for the curb valve and box, but shall not include any service line.
Charges for taps larger than one (1) shall be at cost.
(c) Other nonrecurring charges:
Delinquency Processing fee (Disconnect/reconnect)
Bad eheeksNon-Sufficient Funds /Charge -back Fee
Service initiation fee
Meter downsize (to change a meter that is
Pinchande r smaller without re- leg )
Inspection and testing fee for backflow prevention devices;
- 1 -1 /2 —` inch meter for smaller
. er*strr. r�ees!�sr1
-2—' inch or and larger
Q'8
$5:88
$33.00
20.00
2&88 30.00
32.00
50.00
75.00
Frozen/Damaged/Missing er -lest meter, .
At cost
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Missed or R-return trip fee
Unauthorized use of water system
15.00
/11 11
Water sewer verification fee 4.00
Stop Box Disconnection & Reconnection fee 750.00
Demolition fee (inspection fee) 75.00
SECTION VI. Chapter 17, Article 6, of the South Bend Municipal Code shall be amended
to reinsert Sections 17 -49 through 17 -55 regarding water service charges to be used for repair or
replacement of leaking water service lines, to read in its entirety as follows:
ARTICLE 6. RESERVED. WATER SERVICE FUND AND CHARGES
Sec. 17 -49. Assessment of charges; purpose.
(a) The sum of two dollars and ten cents ($2.10) per month shall be added to the water
service charge of all water users.
(b) All of said sums of money so collected shall be used solely for the repair and/or
replacement of leaking water service lines.
Sec. 17 -50. Application of funds.
Funds so collected shall be used for the pavment of repairs and /or replacement as provided herein
from the water main to the front wall of any building, or line extended therefrom, but it shall not
insure any water service line under any porch, steps, slab foundation, hard surface driveway
parking lot, crawl space or in any room or space under any sidewalk. In the case of two -inch lines
or larger, the repairs provided hereunder shall extend from the water main to the property line only_
Sec. 17 -51. Limitation on use of funds.
Water sprinkler service lines shall not be insured under this article; however, if the domestic
service line has a lawn- sprinkler connection tee in it, said domestic service line and the tee will be
insured, but not beyond the tee nor any costs of repair to the lawn- sprinkling; system proper.
Sec. 17 -52. Use of funds when accounts delinquent prohibited.
The insurance for repair and/or replacement shall not be in force on any account if the charge for
such insurance has not been paid for four (4) consecutive months.
Sec. 17 -53. Approval of repair orders.
No claim for the repair of a water service line under this article will be honored unless said repair
order is approved by the Department of Water Works.
Sec. 17 -55. Maintenance of service line excluded from provisions of article.
This article shall not cover the maintenance of any service line.
SECTION VII. The paragraphs, sentences and words of this Ordinance are severable, and
if any portion hereof is declared unconstitutional, invalid or unenforceable by a court of competent
jurisdiction, such declaration shall not affect the remaining portions of this Ordinance.
SECTION VIII. This Ordinance shall take effect the first day of the month immediately
following all of the following: passage by this Common Council, approval by the Mayor, approval
by the IURC, and any publication required by law.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Common Council of the City of South Bend, Indiana
this day of 32016.
Member, Common Council of the
City of South Bend
ATTEST:
Kareemah Fowler, Clerk
Presented by me, the undersigned Clerk of the City of South Bend, to the Mayor of the City for
his approval on the day of , 2016, at o'clock m.
Kareemah Fowler, Clerk
Having examined the foregoing Ordinance, I do now, as the Mayor of the City of South Bend,
approve said Ordinance and return the same to the Clerk of the City of South Bend this
day of , 2016.
I St READING
PU5LIC HEARING
3,8 READING
NOT APPROVED
REFERRED
n NsSED
Pete Buttigieg, Mayor
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MAR 08 2017
KAREEMAH FOWLER
CITY CLERK, SOUTH BEND, IN
Substitute Bill 66 -16
ORDINANCE NO.
AN ORDINANCE OF THE COMMON COUNCIL OF'
CITY OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA AMENDING VAR]
SECTIONS OF THE SOUTH BEND MUNICIPAL COD
CHAPTER 17, ARTICLES 4 AND 6 TO ADDRESS
NEW WATER RATES AND CHARGES
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE AND INTENT
For Council Members
Changes to Original
Bill are Highlighted.
HLfiled in Clerk's Office
)US
AT MAR 0 g 2017
KAREEMAH FOWLER
CITY CLERK, SOUTH BEND, IN
The City of South Bend owns and operates a water utility and this Council has caused to
be prepared a study which recommends new water rates and charges. Per the recommendations of
this study, the City has determined that water rates and charges should be increased per the revised
rates set forth herein, and those should become the new water rates and charges, subject to approval
of the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission ( "IURC "). This Ordinance also reinserts former
Article 6 of Municipal Code Chapter 17 covering a water service charge to be used for repair or
replacement of leaking water service lines. These provisions which were previously, inadvertently
deleted, are codified at their former location within the Municipal Code, i.e., Chapter 17, Article
6, Sections 17 -44 through 17 -49. This reinserted Article 6 may also be subject to IURC approval.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by the Common Council of the City of South
Bend:
SECTION I. Chapter 17, Article 4, Section 17 -45 of the South Bend Municipal Code
shall be amended to read in its entirety as follows:
Sec. 17 -45. Water Works rates and charges.
There shall be and are hereby established for the use of and the services rendered by the Water
Works System of the City of South Bend, the following rates and charges, based upon the use of
water and facilities furnished by said Water Works System:
(a) Usage per Monthly Rate per
Billing Period 100 Cubic Feet
(upon effective date)
First 500 cubic feet ..... $1.716 2.454 2.094
Next 1,500 cubic feet .....1.490 2.131 1.818
Next 5,500 cubic feet .....1� 1.873 1.598
Next 22,500 cubic feet .....1� 4.649 1.407
Next 90,000 cubic feet .....0.905 1.294 1.104
Over 120,000 cubic feet ...0.-744 4-.002 0.855
Rate per 100 Cubic Feet
(12 months after effective date)
2.554
2.218
1.950
1.716
1.347
1.043
(b) Minimum charge:
Meter size Allowed Usage Minimum Monthly Minimum Monthly
(in cubic feet) (upon effective date) (12 months after
Effective date)
5/8 -inch meter .4 452 $44.3
9.46
11.54
3/4 -inch meter .....44.3 675 16..00
13.65
16.65
1 -inch meter .....49.90 1,260 28.47
24.28
29.63
1' /z -inch meter .....44.72 3,053 63.96
54.56
66.57
2 -inch meter .....79.54 5,711 113.74
97.04
118.39
3 -inch meter .....479.96 14,090 �!55 W
218.33
266.37
4 -inch meter .....348.16 26,163 455.00
388.16
473.56
6 -inch meter .....x.02 69,073 1,023.89
873.54
1,065.72
8 -inch meter .....1,272.95 133,701 1,920.16
1,553.00
1,894.66
10 -inch meter .....1,989.5 235,781 2;843.00
2,426.01
2,959.73
12 -inch meter ..... 2,Q 963.10 360,542 4,0
3,492.99
4,261.45
(c) Computation of charges. Metered water charges
shall be the larger of the minimum
charges of Subsection (b) and or the rate charges of Subsection (a) of this Section. In the
case of multiple meters under a single billing entity, the charges shall be computed for
each meter separately, not the summation of usage.
(d) Monthly public fire protection charges. All customers located within the corporate limits
and all customers outside the corporate limits and
located within one thousand (1,000)
feet of a public fire hydrant shall also pay a monthly public fire protection charge based
upon the size of the customer's meter as follows:
Upon Effective
12 Months
date
After effective date
5/8 -inch connection ..... $2.25 X22
2.75
3.35
3/4 -inch connection .....225 3-.22
2.75
3.35
1 -inch connection .....6 -77 8-45
7.04
8.59
1' /2 -inch connection .....12248 18:56
15.84
19.32
2 -inch connection .....236 32.98
28.13
34.32
3 -inch connection .....51.90 74-.22
63.32
77.25
4 -inch connection .....92.28 434-.96
112.58
137.35
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6 -inch connection .....207.62
246 95 253.30
309.02
8 -inch connection ..... 369 -08
527-.-78 450.28
549.34
10 -inch connection .....576 70
824.-6 703.57
858.36
(e) Private Fire Protection Service, Automatic
Sprinkler, per annum.
1 -inch connection ..... $ 35.62
$50.94 43.46
53.02
2 -inch connection .....71 -.77
102.63 87.56
106.82
3 -inch connection .....143
205.25 175.11
213.63
4 -inch connection .....286.80
410.lq 349.90
426.87
6 -inch connection .....355.56 508.45 433.78 529.22
8 -inch connection .....610.60 873.16 744.93 908.82
10 -inch connection .....954.38 1,364.26 1,164.34 1,420.50
12 -inch connection ..... 1,375.98 1,967.65 1,678.70 2,048.01
(f) Temporary Service. Temporary service where metered shall be calculated upon the
registration of a meter or meters installed at the approved meter rates. In such cases as the
Utility may deem it impracticable to install a meter for temporary service, there shall be
a minimum monthly charge of twenty -nine dollars ($29.00). If the water consumption
computed at approved rates is known to be in excess of the twenty -nine dollars ($29.00)
minimum charge, an authorized agent of the Utility shall have the right to estimate said
water usage and the estimated usage shall be billed at the approved meter rates.
SECTION II. Chapter 17, Article 4, Section 17 -46 of the South Bend Municipal Code shall
be amended to read in its entirety as follows:
Sec. 17 -46. Collection or deferred payment charge.
All bills for water services, not paid within five (5) days from the due date thereof, as stated
in such bills, shall be subject to a collection or deferred payment charge of six (6) „°r-^°^* of th
"" °n+ ,r ^ „ *'''y bill. te�ercent (10 %) of the first three dollars ($3.00) of the water charge and
three percent ON on any amount in excess of three dollars ($3.00) of the water charize. All bills
for water services which are turned over to a collection agency shall be subject to a collection
charge equal to twenty (20) percent of the unpaid bill.
SECTION III. Chapter 17, Article 4, Section 17 -46.1 shall be amended to read in its entirety
as follows:
Sec. 17 -46.1 Suburban rates.
Customers with water service outside the City limits shall incur an additional surcharge of
twee y (20 „ °ree fourteen percent (14 %) of the rates and charges. The surcharge is to recover
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additional costs including capital expenditures incurred by the Water Works to furnish services to
customers outside the City limits.
SECTION IV. Chapter 17, Article 4, Section 17 -46.4 shall be deleted in its entirety and is
not replaced.
SECTION V. Chapter 17, Article 4, Section 17 -47 of the South Bend Municipal Code shall
be amended to read in its entirety as follows:
Sec. 17 -47. Nonrecurring charges.
(a) Deposits: Security deposits, payable upon service initiation and refundable upon service
termination, shall be no more than one -sixth of the estimated annual bill for each meter
size. Governmental entities shall be exempt from deposits.
Tap charges: The charge for installation of a one -inch tap shall be toffee hundred seveH15
dollars ($37 ) Five hundred dollars ($500.00), which shall include the installed tapping
valve and the material for the curb valve and box, but shall not include any service line.
Charges for taps larger than one (1) shall be at cost.
(c) Other nonrecurring charges:
Delinquency Processing fee (Disconnect /reconnect
Bad ehe&sNon-Sufficient Funds /Charge -back Fee
Service initiation fee
Meter downsize (to change a meter that is
1 =' inch and e smaller without re- plumbing )
Inspection and testing fee for backflow prevention devices;
-1- '/2 -` inch meter for smaller
-2" inch or and larger
e'00
$33.00
20.00
20.00 30.00
32.00
50.00
75.00
Frozen/Damaged/Missing or- - lest meter, at eest depending upon size and type of meter.
At cost
Missed or R-return trip fee 15.00
in
Unauthorized use of water system
200.00
Water sewer verification fee 4.00
Stop Box Disconnection & Reconnection fee 750.00
Demolition fee (inspection fee) 75.00
SECTION VI. Chapter 17, Article 6, of the South Bend Municipal Code shall be amended
to reinsert Sections 17 -49 through 17 -55 regarding water service charges to be used for repair or
replacement of leaking water service lines, to read in its entirety as follows:
ARTICLE 6. RESERNWD. WATER SERVICE FUND AND CHARGES
Sec. 17 -49. Assessment of charges; purpose.
(a) The sum of two dollars and ten cents ($2.10) per month shall be added to the water
service charge of all water users.
(b) All of said sums of money so collected shall be used solely for the repair and/or
replacement of leaking water service lines.
Sec. 17 -50. Application of funds.
Funds so collected shall be used for the pavment of repairs and/or replacement as provided herein
from the water main to the front wall of any building, or line extended therefrom, but it shall not
insure any water service line under any porch, steps, slab foundation, hard surface driveway,
parking lot, crawl space or in any room or space under any sidewalk. In the case of two -inch lines
or larger, the repairs provided hereunder shall extend from the water main to the property line only.
Sec. 17 -51. Limitation on use of funds.
Water sprinkler service lines shall not be insured under this article; however, if the domestic
service line has a lawn - sprinkler connection tee in it, said domestic service line and the tee will be
insured, but not beyond the tee nor any costs of repair to the lawn - sprinklings s� proper.
Sec. 17 -52. Use of funds when accounts delinquent prohibited.
The insurance for repair and /or replacement shall not be in force on any account if the charge for
such insurance has not been paid for four (4) consecutive months.
Sec. 17 -53. Approval of repair orders.
No claim for the repair of a water service line under this article will be honored unless said repair
order is approved by the Department of Water Works.
Sec. 17 -55. Maintenance of service line excluded from m-ovisions of article.
This article shall not cover the maintenance of any service line.
SECTION VII. The paragraphs, sentences and words of this Ordinance are severable, and
if any portion hereof is declared unconstitutional, invalid or unenforceable by a court of competent
jurisdiction, such declaration shall not affect the remaining portions of this Ordinance.
SECTION VIII. This Ordinance shall take effect the first day of the month immediately
following all of the following: passage by this Common Council, approval by the Mayor, approval
by the IURC, and any publication required by law.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Common Council of the City of South Bend, Indiana
this day of , 2016.
Member, Common Council of the
City of South Bend
ATTEST:
Kareemah Fowler, Clerk
Presented by me, the undersigned Clerk of the City of South Bend, to the Mayor of the City for
his approval on the day of , 2016, at o'clock m.
Kareemah Fowler, Clerk
Having examined the foregoing Ordinance, I do now, as the Mayor of the City of South Bend,
approve said Ordinance and return the same to the Clerk of the City of South Bend this
day of , 2016.
Pete Buttigieg, Mayor
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