Agenda Item: 10
CITY OF SANTA CLARITA
AGENDA REPORT
CONSENT CALENDAR
CITY MANAGER APPROVAL:
DATE: June 27, 2023
SUBJECT: SECOND READING OF AN ORDINANCE DETERMINING THE
ANNUAL STORMWATER POLLUTION PREVENTION FEE FOR
FISCAL YEAR 2023-24
DEPARTMENT: Neighborhood Services
PRESENTER: Darin Seegmiller
RECOMMENDED ACTION
City Council waive reading of the text and consent to read by title only, as listed on the agenda, and adopt an ordinance entitled, "AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF SANTA CLARITA, CALIFORNIA, DETERMINING THE ANNUAL STORMWATER POLLUTION PREVENTION FEE FOR FISCAL YEAR 2023-24."
BACKGROUND
Pursuant to Section 15.50.070 of the Santa Clarita Municipal Code, the City of Santa Clarita (City) shall annually hold a public hearing or meeting where an oral and written presentation may be made in connection with the Stormwater Pollution Prevention Fee (Fee). The City Clerk has published notice of such annual public hearing as provided by law. On June 13, 2023, The City Council conducted a public hearing to consider the Fee.
The Fee supports the requirements of the 1972 Federal Clean Water Act and National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Permit (NPDES Permit)
In 2009, the City Council adopted Ordinance No. 09-14 (Ordinance), establishing a new methodology to calculate the Fee. Pursuant to Section 3 of the Ordinance, the City Council shall annually determine the rates of the Fee subject to the maximum Fee authorized by the Ordinance.
The City Council may determine to do any of the following: a) discontinue the Fee; b) reduce or maintain the actual Fee rate imposed below the maximum Fee rate authorized; or c) adjust the rate up to or below the maximum voter-authorized rate if it has been previously set below such rate. The City Council is not required to include an inflation increase annually but may choose to accumulate the inflationary increase and enact the cumulative amount.
Staff recommends increasing the Stormwater Fee by an amount equal to the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for All Urban Consumers for the Los Angeles, Long Beach, and Anaheim areas for the preceding year ending December 2022, at 4.93 percent. If approved, the Stormwater Fee for Fiscal Year (FY) 2023-24 would be levied at $30.63 per Equivalent Residential Unit (ERU), which is equal to the maximum fee allowable under the guidelines of Proposition 218.
The FY 2023-24 Stormwater Pollution Prevention Fee Engineer’s Report and a preliminary list of the rates for all properties subject to the Fee is attached as reading file material to this item.
Should Council adopt the ordinance determining the rate, Willdan Financial Services is directed to prepare and file the final list of rates with the Los Angeles County Auditor-Controller to be placed on the tax rolls and collected with regular City and County taxes.
ALTERNATIVE ACTION
Other action as determined by the City Council.
FISCAL IMPACT
There is no impact to the General Fund with this action.
ATTACHMENTS
Ordinance
FY 2023-24 Stormwater Engineer's Report (available in the City Clerk's Reading File) FY 2023-24 Stormwater Fee Tax Roll (available in the City Clerk's Reading File)