July 11, 2023
Public Works
DATE: July 11, 2023
TO: Mayor Martinez and Members of the City Council
FROM:
Daniel Chavarria, Director of Public Works
Mary Phelps, Project Manager
Subject:
Public Hearing for the Collection of the Sanitary and Storm Fees for Fiscal Year 2023-24
FINANCIAL IMPACT: The resolution allows for approximately $30,250,000 in wastewater enterprise revenues and $1,975,000 in
stormwater enterprise revenues to be collected with the 2023-24 property taxes. These funds are used to pay all expenditures related to the operation and maintenance of the wastewater and stormwater services including debt
services on existing wastewater bond obligations.
PREVIOUS COUNCIL
ACTION:
July 19, 2023 – Adopted fees for FY 2022-23
STATEMENT OF THE
ISSUE:
The City provides wastewater and stormwater collection
services which are funded through the collection of
annual fees. City staff is recommending that the City
Council adopt a resolution authorizing the City to collect these annual sanitary and storm sewer fees for fiscal
year 2023-24 as a separate line item on the property tax rolls, as has been the practice for several years.
AGENDA
REPORT
July 11, 2023
RECOMMENDED ACTION:
HOLD a public hearing; and ADOPT a resolution
approving a report of sewer service charges for Fiscal
Year (FY) 2023-24 allowing for the sanitary and
stormwater fees to be collected on the annual FY 2023-
24 tax rolls – Public Works Department (Daniel Chavarria 510-620-5478/ Mary Phelps 510-612-1269).
DISCUSSION:
The City’s wastewater and stormwater collection and treatment services are managed as business enterprises and are separate from the City’s General Fund. The City collects fees to fund these services, which are levied on the property tax rolls.
The proposed resolution has been prepared pursuant to provisions of Chapter 12.20 of the Municipal Code of the City of Richmond, which provides that sanitary and storm sewer service charges may be collected in the same manner, at the same time and together with the general and real property taxes of the City of Richmond.
Article XII, Chapter 12.20 (Sewer System Fees) of the Municipal Code of the City of Richmond provides that City staff submit for confirmation a list of premises shown on the tax roll in the County Tax Assessor’s Office which receive sewer service in the City of Richmond as of the first Monday in March 2023. This report will be posted to the City’s web site and will also be available in the City Clerk’s Office.
The rates for fiscal year 2023-24 are listed in Table 1.
The sanitary sewer rates include the 7.0 percent increase City Council approved on June 2, 2020 (Attachment 4).
The storm sewer rates remain unchanged.
Table 1
Single Unit Residential Multi-Unit Residential $1,121/SSU (Sanitary Sewer Rate) $901/SSU (Sanitary Sewer Rate) $ 32/SSU (Storm Sewer Rate) $ 32/SSU (Storm Sewer Rate)
Commercial & Industrial (based on flow, but not less than $671/facility) $81.31 per IWU (1 IWU = 1,000 cu.ft. wastewater discharged) $1.720 per lbs. BOD
$0.803 per lbs. TSS
July 11, 2023
DOCUMENTS ATTACHED:
Attachment 1 - Resolution
Attachment 2 - Director’s Report (Sanitary and Storm Fees FY 2023-24) Attachment 3 - Public Hearing Notice (published in local newspapers) Attachment 4 - Ordinance 09-20 N.S. - Richmond Municipal Code Chapter 12.20