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REGULAR MEETING NOVEMBER 11,2013 <br /> Councilmember Oliver Davis, Chairperson, Public Works and Property Vacation Committee, <br /> reported that this committee met on this bill this afternoon and did not take formal action on this <br /> bill because of the fact that we still are going to allow for a public hearing at this time. Just to <br /> note that in doing our research I would like permission to have a quick summary regarding this <br /> bill from our City Attorney, regarding what she shared with us today. That's correct Council <br /> Attorney. <br /> Council rn Kat Ckrd B for <br /> increase Atto for the next ey four hleen(4) years;eanski-Far it was properly ill pu64-13 blished sets that this the evening proposed would be rates public <br /> hearing on this. However,the Council does have the opportunity to continue the public hearing <br /> in the event that they would like to hold more committee meetings through the Utilities <br /> Committee and work with the Administration in gathering more information. With regard to <br /> past history of the sewer rates, the Council is charged by State Law under title 36 to establish <br /> what are to be determined just and equitable fees for providing services in this area. There is a <br /> listing of 10 different factors that the Council may use in determining those fees. <br /> Councilmember White requested in a recent Utilities meeting a brief history and we went back to <br /> 1989 when there was a significant increase first time in fourteen (14) years that the City of South <br /> Bend had raised the waste water rates. Thereafter in 2003, there was a twenty-four(24%)rate <br /> increase and also in 2004, 2005 there was a five(5%) rate increase, in 2006 at twenty-nine (29%) <br /> rate increase, in 2007 fifteen percent(15%) , 2008 eleven (11%) and each year thereafter a 9% <br /> rate increase. And again like we have done in the past Mr. Skomp will be presenting detail <br /> information as far as determining what is just and reasonable in this area. <br /> Chairperson White: I would also ask our Council Attorney to give a very brief overview when <br /> we move to the Public Hearing portion. <br /> Council Attorney Kathleen Cekanski-Farrand: At the time of the public hearing anyone has the <br /> right to speak before the Council. We ask that you give your name and address for the record, <br /> you have the right to speak for five (5)minutes. We always ask that anyone who wishes to speak <br /> in favor of the bill, speak first, after that anyone who wishes to remonstrant against the proposal <br /> also have the right to speak for a maximum of five (5) minutes. If there are any questions raised <br /> in either one of those portions the formal presentation given by the City Administration then <br /> have a rebuttal period of five(5) minutes. <br /> Councilmember Oliver Davis: Madam Chairperson is it at this time or afterwards that we will <br /> talk about continuation. <br /> Chairperson White: When we get back into the Council portion. <br /> Eric Horvath, Director of Public Works, 13th Floor County-City Building, 277 W. Jefferson <br /> Blvd., South Bend, Indiana, made the presentation for this bill. <br /> Mr. Horvath: Also with me today Becky Schaefer she is an Engineer with Greeley& Hansen <br /> who will be joining me momentarily as well as John Skomp who is a Utility Rate Analyst with <br /> Crowe Horwarth. I wanted to start by giving a little bit of background and apologize to some of <br /> you that have heard this before,but throughout its history the river has just been a tremendous <br /> asset for the City of South Bend. Early on as an important industrial base, but for years it has <br /> been a mechanism through which we can get our sewers out of the city and into the river where it <br /> is diluted and taken away. This is something that has been going on in civilizations for over <br /> 5,000 years and they figured out that there is a need to have sewers and that they provided a good <br /> health benefit for civilizations, if you look world-wide we are still not there. We have 1 in 4 <br /> people who do not have access to sanitary toilets and 4,000 deaths a year from water borne <br /> illnesses, 4,000 deaths a day from water borne illnesses throughout the world. So we are very <br /> fortunate that we are not in those developing countries and we are not in that same situation. <br /> However, we have got our own issues that we have to deal with, and the late 1800's early 1900's <br /> we took our sanitary sewer and our storm sewers and took them directly to the river. In the <br /> 1950's we decided that we needed to build a wastewater treatment plant to treat some of that <br /> II <br /> 1I <br />
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