HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinances_2965ORDINANCE NO. 2965
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF REDLANDS AMENDING CHAPTER 3.62
OF THE REDLANDS MUNICIPAL CODE RELATING TO SEWER SERVICE
FUND
Section 1. Chapter 3.62 of the Redlands Municipal Code, titled "Sewer Service
Fund," is hereby amended to read as follows:
"CHAPTER 3.62
SEWER SERVICE FUND
SECTION:
3.62.010: Establishment
3.62.020: Definitions
3.62.030: Charges
3.62.040: Amount of Charges
3.62.010: ESTABLISHMENT:
There is established the sewer service fund to provide for administration, operation and
maintenance of the Redlands domestic sewerage system and its capacity to serve its existing users.
All interest on the cash balance of the fund shall accrue to the sewer service fund. The following
rules shall apply:
A. All service charges and all miscellaneous charges not otherwise designated shall be credited
to the sewer service fund.
B. Established within the sewer service fund is a reserve for capital. The reserve for capital
shall be in addition to annual capital replacement budget, to establish a fund for capital
expenditures necessary due to unforeseen or unusual capital costs in any year, necessary to
maintain the existing system and its capacity.
3.62.020: DEFINITIONS:
For the purpose of carrying out the intent of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply:
MULTIPLE -FAMILY DWELLING UNIT: A structure designed and used for occupancy of two
(2) or more families, but does not include motels, hotels, or rest homes, nursing homes, with
common cooking facilities.
PREMISES: A lot, parcel of land, building or establishment.
SEWER CONNECTION OR CONNECTION: Physically tapping into sewer mains or their
laterals for the purpose of serving a private sewer line or building sewer from a property or
premises.
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SEWER RATES: The sewer rates, rate structures and rate classes to be established by the city
council to be used as a basis for charging users for service from the sewerage system.
SEWER SERVICE CHARGE: Service charges for the use of the sewerage system based on sewer
rates.
SEWERAGE SYSTEM: Those pipelines and appurtenances maintained and operated by the city
for the collection and conveyance of sewage to the plant owned and operated by the city,
wastewater treatment, and treatment and discharge of such wastewater to required standards.
SINGLE-FAMILY DWELLING UNIT: A structure or portion thereof used exclusively for the
occupancy of one family.
3.62.030: CHARGES:
The wastewater service charges for the following categories shall be paid for wastewater service.
Every person whose premises in the city is served by a connection with the wastewater system of
the city, whereby the sewage or industrial wastes, or either or both, are disposed of by the city,
either through the facilities of the wastewater treatment and sewage disposal works owned by the
city, or otherwise, shall pay a sewer service charge which shall be as specified in section 3.62.040
of this chapter.
A. Residential Rates: For all residential dwelling units, including single-family and multiple -
family dwelling units, there shall be a bimonthly charge.
B. Nonresidential Rates: For all nonresidential users there shall be a bimonthly charge based
upon the strength of the wastewater discharged for each one hundred (100) cubic feet or
fraction thereof. Wastewater strength data is adapted from state water resources control
board's "Revenue Program Guidelines for Wastewater Agencies".
1. Large volume users are classified as users with greater than twenty-five thousand
(25,000) gallons per day discharge.
2. A minimum bimonthly charge equivalent to the multiple -family dwelling unit rate shall
apply to any nonresidential user whose wastewater discharge per one hundred (100)
cubic feet or fraction thereof results in a total charge less than the equivalent of the
multiple -family dwelling unit rate.
C. School Rates: Each school shall pay a bimonthly charge for each one hundred (100) average
daily attendance or part thereof.
3.62.040: AMOUNT OF CHARGES:
Amounts of bimonthly charges are as follows:
Wastewater rates effective August 5, 2024:
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City Customers
A.
Residential:
Single-family dwelling unit
$66.04
Multiple -family dwelling unit
$52.40
B.
Nonresidential:
Low strength I
$2.82/100 cubic feet
Low strength II
$3.41/100 cubic feet
Low strength III
$3.99/100 cubic feet
Medium strength I
$4.58/100 cubic feet
Medium strength II
$5.16/100 cubic feet
Medium strength III
$5.75/100 cubic feet
High strength I
$6.34/100 cubic feet
High strength II
$6.92/100 cubic feet
1. Large volume user:
>25,000 gallons per day
$3.99/100 cubic feet
2. Nonresidential minimum charge:
All strengths
$52.40
C.
Schools:
Elementary
$143.11/100 ADA'
Secondary and high school
$238.52/100 ADA'
D.
Septage:
Tank dumping
$0.10/gallon
$15.00 minimum
Note:
1 ADA: Average Daily Attendance
Wastewater rates effective July 1, 2025:
City Customers
A.
Residential:
Single-family dwelling unit
$72.65
Multiple -family dwelling unit
$57.64
B.
Nonresidential:
Low strength I
$3.11/100 cubic feet
Low strength II
$3.76/100 cubic feet
Low strength III
$4.39/100 cubic feet
Medium strength I
$5.04/100 cubic feet
Medium strength II
$5.68/100 cubic feet
Medium strength III
$6.33/100 cubic feet
High strength 1
$6.98/100 cubic feet
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High strength II
$7.62/100 cubic feet
1. Large volume user:
>25,000 gallons per day
$4.39/100 cubic feet
2. Nonresidential minimum charge:
All strengths
$57.64
C.
Schools:
Elementary
$157.43/100 ADA'
Secondary and high school
$262.38/100 ADA'
D.
Septage:
Tank dumping
$0.11/gallon
$16.50 minimum
Note:
1 ADA: Average Daily Attendance
Section 2. If any section, sentence, clause or phrase of this ordinance or the
application thereof to any entity, person or circumstance is held for any reason to be invalid or
unconstitutional, such invalidity or unconstitutionality shall not affect other provisions or
applications of this ordinance which can be given effect without the invalid provisions or
application, and to this end the provisions of this ordinance are severable. The City Council of
the City of Redlands hereby declares that it would have adopted this ordinance and each
section, sentence, clause or phrase thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more section,
subsections, sentences, clauses or phrases be declared invalid or unconstitutional.
Section 3. Resolution No. 8335 is rescinded effective August 5, 2024.
Section 4. The Mayor shall sign this ordinance and the City Clerk shall certify to the
adoption of this ordinance and shall cause it, or a summary of it, to be published once in a
newspaper of general circulation within the City, and thereafter, this ordinan - effect
as provided by law.
Eddie Tejeda, Mayor
ATTEST:
J e Donaldson, City Clerk
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I, Jeanne Donaldson, City Clerk, City of Redlands, hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance
was duly adopted by the City Council at the regular meeting thereof, held on the 2nd day of July,
2024, by the following vote:
AYES: Councilmembers Barich, Davis, Guzman -Lowery, Saucedo; Mayor Tejeda
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
ABSTAINED: None
Donaldson, City Clerk
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