Ordinance 3570ORDINANCE NO. 3570
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EDMONDS,
WASHINGTON, AMENDING THE PROVISIONS OF
SECTION 7.50.050 RATES AND CHARGES TO INCREASE
THE COMBINED UTILITY RATE, STORM WATER
MANAGEMENT COMPONENT BY EIGHT PERCENT
EQUIVALENT TO FIFTY EIGHT CENTS PER MONTH AND
AMENDING THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 7.30.040
UTILITY CHARGES — SANITARY SEWER TO DECREASE
THE SANITARY SEWER COMPONENT BY 2.24 PERCENT,
AND FIXING A TIME WHEN THE SAME SHALL BECOME
EFFECTIVE.
WHEREAS, the City operates a combined utility which incorporates water, sewer
and storm water management functions, and
WHEREAS, the City Council commissioned a study of its rates by FCS Group of
Redmond, Washington, and
WHEREAS, the recommendations of the consultant indicated that for fiscal year
2006 no increase in water rates was required but that an eight percent in storm water utility rates
equivalent to fifty -eight cents per month per equivalent service unit or ESU is necessary, and that
sanitary sewer rates could be reduced by an offsetting amount of 2.24 percent, and
WHEREAS, the City Council has received this recommendation from the Mayor
as part of his 2006 budget recommendations, NOW, THEREFORE,
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EDMONDS, WASHINGTON, DO
ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. The Edmonds City Code, Section 7.50.050 Rates and charges is
hereby amended to read as follows:
2.50.050 Rates and charges.
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A. The following rates shall be charged on all billings after the
effective date shown with respect to the following customers
and/or service:
Effective
January 1, 2006
Single - family residential and $ 15.56
multi - family residential (bimonthly
billing cycle)
Single - family residential and multi- $ 7.78
family residential (monthly)
All other residential customers per $ 7.78
ESU (monthly billing cycle)
B. An ESU is hereby defined to be the impervious surface area
estimated to contribute an amount of runoff which is
approximately equal to that created by an average single -
family residential parcel. A single - family residential parcel
is one ESU. For all other parcels, one ESU is equivalent to
3,000 square feet of impervious surface area.
Section 2. The Edmonds City Code, Section 7.30.040 Utility charges — Sanitary
sewer is hereby amended to read as follows:
A. The following rates shall be charged on all billings after the
effective date shown with respect to the following customers
and/or service:
Effective
Dates Connected Unconnected
1. Single - family residences (bimonthly)
1/1/2004 $51.80 $8.35
1/1/2006 $50.64 $8.16
2. Duplexes, apartment houses, condominiums and other
multi -unit residences (bimonthly)
1/1/2004 $41.62 /unit $8.35 /unit
1/1/2006 $40.69 /unit $8.16 /unit
3. Duplexes, apartment houses, condominiums and other
multi -unit residences (monthly)
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1/1/2004
$20.81 /unit
$4.18 /unit
1/1/2006
$20.34 /unit
$4.09 /unit
4. All other customers (monthly)
Fixed Rate:
1/1/2004
$2.95
N/A
1/1/2006
$2.88
N/A
Volume Charge:
1/1/2004
$3.34 /ccf*
N/A
l/l/2006
$3.26 /ccf*
N/A
*Per 100 cubic feet of metered water consumption.
Effective Date. This ordinance, being an exercise of a power specifically
delegated to the City legislative body, is not subject to referendum, and shall take effect five (5)
days after passage and publication of an approved summary thereof consisting of the title.
APPROVED:
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MAYOR GA6 HAAKENSON
ATTEST /AUTHENTICATED:
CITY CLERK, SANDRA S. CHASE
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
OFFICE OF THE CI Y ATTORNEY:
BY ( 5�&&
W. SCOTT SNYDER
FILED WITH THE CITY CLERK: 10 /28/2005
PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL: 11/01/2005
PUBLISHED: 11/09/2005
EFFECTIVE DATE: 11/14/2005
ORDINANCE NO. 3570
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SUMMARY OF ORDINANCE NO. 3570
of the City of Edmonds, Washington
On the 1St day of November, 2005, the City Council of the City of Edmonds,
passed Ordinance No. 3570. A summary of the content of said ordinance, consisting of the title,
provides as follows:
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EDMONDS, WASHINGTON,
AMENDING THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 7.50.050 RATES AND CHARGES TO
INCREASE THE COMBINED UTILITY RATE, STORM WATER MANAGEMENT
COMPONENT BY EIGHT PERCENT EQUIVALENT TO FIFTY EIGHT CENTS PER
MONTH AND AMENDING THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 7.30.040 UTILITY CHARGES
— SANITARY SEWER TO DECREASE THE SANITARY SEWER COMPONENT BY 2.24
PERCENT, AND FIXING A TIME WHEN THE SAME SHALL BECOME.
The full text of this Ordinance will be mailed upon request.
DATED this 2nd day of November, 2005.
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CITY CLERK, SANDRA S. CHASE
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STATE OF WASHINGTON,
COUNTY OF SNOHONHSH
SUMMARY OF ORDINANCE NO. 3570
o t e i1y o mon s, as ington
On the 1 st day of November, 2005, the City Council of the
I City of Edmonds, passed Ordinance N0. 3570. A summary of
the content of said ordinance, consisting of the title, provides
as follows:
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF ED-
MONDS, WASHINGTON, AMENDING THE PROVISIONS
OF SECTION 7.50.050 RATES AND CHARGES TO IN-
CREASE THE COMBINE ATER
MANAGEMENT COMPONENT BY EIGHT PERCENT
EQUIVALENT TO FIFTY EIGHT CENTS PER MONTH AND
AMENDING THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 7.30.040 UTI-
Q CHARGES - SANITARY SEWER TO DECREASE THE
BY 2.24 PERCENT,
AND FIXING A TIME WHEN THE SAME SHALL BECOME
EFFECTIVE.
The full text of this Ordinance will be mailed upon request.
DATED this 2nd day of November, 2005.
CITY CLERK, SANDRA S. CHASE
Published: November 9, 2005.
Affidavit of Publication
S.S.
The undersigned, being'first duly swom on oath deposes and says that she is Principal Clerk
of THE HERALD, a daily newspaper printed and published in the City of Everett, County of
Snohomish, and State of Washington; that said newspaper is a newspaper of general
circulation in said County and State; that said newspaper has been approved as a legal
newspaper by order of the Superior Court of Snohomish County and that the notice
Summary of Ordinance No. 3570
City of Edmonds
a printed copy of which is hereunto attached, was published in said newspaper proper and not
in supplement form, in the regular and entire edition of said paper on the following days and
times, namely:
November 09, 2005
and that said newspaper was regularly distributed to its subscribers during all of said period.
sworn to before me this 9th
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