SecondreadingOrd1363
CITY OF SIMI VALLEY
MEMORANDUM
May 19, 2025
TO: City Council
FROM: Department of Public Works
SUBJECT: SECOND READING OF ORDINANCE NO. 13 63 ESTABLISHING A
SCHEDULE OF SANTIATION FEES AND CHARGES AND REPEALING
ORDINANCE NO. 1300
STAFF RECOMMENDATION
It is recommended that Ordinance No. 1363 be adopted.
BACKGROUND
The attached Ordinance No. 1363 was introduced for first reading at the City Council meeting of May 5, 2025, without modifications.
SUGGESTED CITY COUNCIL MOTION
I move to adopt Ordinance No. 1363.
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Ron Fuchiwaki
Public Works Director
Prepared by: Lucy Blanco, City Clerk
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Ordinance No. 1363 ............................................................................. 2
AGENDA ITEM NO.
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RDINANCE NO. 1363
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N ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
SIMI VALLEY ESTABLISHING A SCHEDULE OF
SANITATION FEES AND CHARGES AND REPEALING
ORDINANCE NO. 1300
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HE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SIMI VALLEY DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1: INTENT
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ursuant to Section 5471 of the California Health and Safety Code, it is intended that this ordinance of the City of Simi Valley establish a Schedule of Sanitation Fees and Charges pursuant to the provisions of Ordinance Nos. 926 and 1170. In addition, it is also intended that this ordinance incorporate the findings of the FY 2025-26 to FY 2029-30 Sanitation Rate Study Report. All applicable rates and charges adopted by previous ordinances and resolutions are hereby repealed upon implementation of the rates and charges provided for in this ordinance. Ordinance No. 1300 is hereby repealed as of the effective date of this ordinance, which shall be the effective date of the fees and charges established by this Ordinance. These rates and charges are in conformance with the provisions of Proposition 218.
SECTION 2: SCHEDULE OF FEES AND CHARGES
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he Schedule of Sanitation Fees and Charges, as shown on Exhibits “A” and “ B” shall become applicable on the effective date of this ordinance and will be implemented to coordinate with regular billing schedules immediately following the effective date of this ordinance, or as soon thereafter as is administratively possible.
SECTION 3: PUBLICATION
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he City Clerk shall cause this ordinance or a summary hereof to be published in a newspaper of general circulation, published in the County of Ventura, circulated in the City, and, if applicable, to be posted in accordance with Section 36933 of the Califo rnia Government Code; shall certify to the adoption of this ordinance; and shall cause a certified copy of this ordinance, together with proof of publication, to be filed in the Office of the Clerk of this City.
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This ordinance shall go into effect and be in full force and effect at 12:01 a.m. on the thirty-first (31st) day after its passage, and the fees and charges shall apply on the effective date.
PASSED and ADOPTED this 19th day of May 2025.
ATTEST:
Lucy Blanco, City Clerk Dee Dee Cavanaugh, Mayor of the City of Simi Valley, California
Approved as to Form: Approved as to Content:
Algeria R. Ford, City Attorney Samantha C. Argabrite, City Manager
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Ronald K. Fuchiwaki
Public Works Director
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EXHIBIT A
SCHEDULE OF FEES AND CHARGES IN ACCORDANCE
WITH ORDINANCE NO. 926 RELATING TO THE
COLLECTION OF FEES AND CHARGES FOR THE
PROVISION OF SEWERAGE AND RELATED SERVICES
In accordance with Sections 4 and 5 of Ordinance No. 926, the improvement plan processing fee and the permit and construction inspection fee for the sewerage service connection shall be equal to the City of Simi Valley fees for similar services as outlined in the Schedule of Service Fees.
The fees and charges for connection to the sewer system are described in the Tables 1 and 2 shown below:
Table 1, Equivalent Dwelling Unit and Acreage Fees
Sewerage Fees
Connection Fee $6,131 per equivalent dwelling unit (EDU) Annexation Fee $2,414 per gross acre of property
Annual fees for Tables 1 and 2 will be adjusted annually using the Engineering News Record Construction Cost Index as outlined in Ordinance 926 Section 6.
Table 2, Connection (Capacity) Fees for Specific Connections 4 ORD. NO. 1363
FY25-261
Service Charges $ EDU
Residential
Single Family Detached/Attached 6,131 1. 000 Single Family Detached/Attached (converting to City sewer system) 3,727 0. 608 Multi Family (per unit) 4,599 0. 750
Mobile Home & Sr. Citizen Housing (for 35+ dwelling units) 3,678 0. 600 A ccessory Dwelling Unit ($/sq. ft of floor area)2,3 2.79 0.00045 Commercial -
Office Buildings (per 1,000 sq ft) -
Medical Office 3,679 0. 600
Medical Office Using Digital X-Ray 2,024 0. 330 All Other Office Buildings 2,024 0. 330
Retail Buildings -
R etail S hops & S tores up to 10,000 sq ft (cost per 1,000 sq ft) 2,024 0. 330 Retail Shops & Stores over to 10,000 sq ft (cost per additional 1,000 sq ft) 1,350 0. 220 Pet Grooming (per shampoo bowl) 1,226 0. 200 Beauty/Barber Shop (per shampoo bowl) 1,226 0. 200 Self Service Laundry (per machine) 2,453 0. 400 Restaurants -
Restaurants, 42 seats or less 15,941 2. 600
Restaurants, per additional seat over 42 384 0. 063 Restaurants, Bars, Cocktail Lounges (per seat) 369 0. 060 Food Establishments, 50 seats or less & not considered full service restaurants (per seat) 160 0. 026 Hotels/Motels -
Hotel/Motel without kitchen (per unit) 2,024 0. 330 Hotel/Motel with kitchen (per unit) 3,372 0. 550 Automobile Service Station -
Auto Service & Repair (per 1,000 sq ft) 2,024 0. 330 Per Restroom 2,024 0. 330
Parks -
Per Water Closet or Urinal 2,024 0. 330
Schools/Hospitals -
School - Elementary/Nursery/etc, 60 students or less 6,131 1. 000 Each Additional Student (cost after 60 students) 104 0. 017 School - Junior High School, 50 students or less 6,131 1. 000 Each Additional Student (cost after 50 students) 123 0. 020 School - High School, 30 students or less 6,131 1. 000 Each Additional Student (cost after 30 students) 203 0. 033 Hospitals - Includes Admin Office Support (per bed) 3,679 0. 600 Churches/Theaters/Auditoriums -
Churches/Theaters/Auditoriums of 110 seats 6,131 1. 000 Each Additional Seat over 110 seats 56 0. 009 2 B ased on 2,200 square foot of the ty pical single family home. 1 T he proposed charges were escalated using the E NR C C I for the L os A ngeles region to Nov ember 2024. T he current y ear was escalated based on the former January 2016 capacity fee implementation date and not 3 A s per S ection 65852.2 of the G ov ernment C ode, an accessory dwelling unit (A D U ) including more than 150 square feet of ex pansion bey ond the same phy sical dimensions as the ex isting accessory structure, or is considered to be a detached unit, is susceptible to being charged a distinctiv e A D U capacity fee. 4 E DU = E qualvalent Dwelling Unit . E DU will remain constaint for the five year period FY 26-FY 30. 5 ORD. NO. 1363
EXHIBIT B
SCHEDULE OF SEWER SERVICE FEES IN ACCORDANCE
WITH ORDINANCE NO. 926, AND 2025 SANITATION RATE
STUDY REPORT
The monthly service fee for each category is as described in the table shown below:
Rates Effective:
July 1,
2025
July 1,
2026
July 1,
2027
July 1,
2028
July 1,
2029
Monthly Residential ($/month)
Single Family $56.73 $58.72 $60.78 $62.91 $65.11
Multi Family 42.54 44.03 45.57 47.16 48.81
Senior Housing 31.20 32.29 33.42 34.59 35.80
Mobile Home 34.04 35.23 36.46 37.74 39.06
Monthly Non-Residential ($/month)1
Office with LM (SCD) $56.54 $58.52 $60.57 $62.69 $64.88 Office without LM (SDL) 45.23 46.81 48.45 50.15 51.91
Commercial with LM (SCR) 68.44 70.84 73.32 75.89 78.55
Commercial without LM (SRL) 54.76 56.68 58.66 60.71 62.83 Restaurant with LM (SRR) 80.35 83.16 86.07 89.08 92.20
Restaurant without LM (RRL) 64.28 66.53 68.86 71.27 73.76 Café with LM (SRD) 80.35 83.16 86.07 89.08 92.20
Café without LM (RDL) 64.28 66.53 68.86 71.27 73.76
Commercial Units (SCU) 63.01 65.22 67.50 69.86 72.31
Park Landscape with Restroom (SPL) 63.01 65.22 67.50 69.86 72.31 Special SAP Conversion (SRS) 63.01 65.22 67.50 69.86 72.31 Other Non-Residential ($/Unit/month)
High Schools ($/Student) $2.44 $2.53 $2.62 $2.71 $2.80
Other Schools ($/Student) 1.63 1.69 1.75 1.81 1.87
Septage Hauling ($/750 Gal Load) 49.07 50.79 52.57 54.41 56.31 Monthly Lift Station Charge (In Addition to Normal Rates)2 Wood Ranch/Big Sky SFR Lift Fee $10.45 $10.82 $11.20 $11.59 $12.00 Multi Family Lift Fee 7.84 8.11 8.39 8.68 8.98
1 Non-residential fixed monthly rate includes a billed sewage allowance of 7 hundred cubic feet (hcf). 2 For customers that benefit from the City's lift stations.
Rates Effective:
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July 1,
2025
July 1,
2026
July 1,
2027
July 1,
2028
July 1,
2029
Non-Residential Usage Rates ($/hundred cubic feet)
Office with LM (SCD) $8.08 $8.36 $8.65 $8.95 $9.26
Office without LM (SDL) 6.46 6.69 6.92 7.16 7.41
Commercial with LM (SCR) 9.78 10.12 10.47 10.84 11.22
Commercial without LM (SRL) 7.82 8.09 8.37 8.66 8.96
Restaurant with LM (SRR) 11.48 11.88 12.30 12.73 13.18
Restaurant without LM (RRL) 9.18 9.50 9.83 10.17 10.53
Café with LM (SRD) 11.48 11.88 12.30 12.73 13.18
Café without LM (RDL) 9.18 9.50 9.83 10.17 10.53
Commercial Units (SCU) 9.00 9.32 9.65 9.99 10.34
1 The City has two type of non-residential customers: 1) with a landscape meter and 2) without a landscape meter. With landscape meter represents customers that have separate irrigation meter and therefore billable sewage flow is assumed 100% of water consumption. Without landscape meter represents customers that don’t have a separate irrigation meter and therefore billable sewage flow is assumed to be 80% of water consumption.
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High Strength Nonresidential Users
High strength non-residential users:
Industrial, commercial and/or institutional users with a discharge having a BOD greater than 266 parts per million and for an TSS greater than 331 parts per million will be charged using the following formula for each 100 cubic feet or fraction thereof:
$7.02 (0.83 + 0.08 BOD + 0.08 TSS) = monthly fee
266 331
Where:
BOD = Biochemical oxygen demand loading in mg/L (ppm) for extra strength discharger
SS = Suspended solids loading in mg/L (ppm) for extra strength discharger
Service Fee Provisions
i) Service fees shall be due from the owner of the property served, but may be billed to and paid by commercial and industrial lessees where the City's Engineer is able to determine a fee for each separate user within a parcel.
Service fees shall be due at the beginning of each month and delinquent if not paid within 30 days.
ii) The monthly charges for commercial, industrial, and institutional users will be based on the total sewered water usage. A standard allowance of 20 percent will be granted where a portion of the metered water usage is employed for landscape irrigation for consumptive purposes.
iii) Because of the higher than average landscape irrigation or consumptive usage, some non -residential users may only be discharging a comparatively small portion of their metered water usage to the sewer system. These users may, upon request to the City, be permitted to have the amount of water being discharged to the sewer determined by one of the methods listed below. The specific method to be used will be selected by the City based on consideration of cost of installation and anticipated accuracy of the method. There shall be a $319.53 fee required for any such request to cover the costs of the City in processing following the City's initial determination.
Method 1. The user will install, at the user's expense, a calibrated flume, weir, flow meter, or similar device approved by the Engineer of the City as to type and location to measure the user's wastewater discharge. In the latter case, a flow meter and totalizing register will be required, and measurement to verify the quantity of wastewater flow will be performed
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on a random basis by the City. The property owner will install, at owner’s expense, a suitable vault for installing the flow meter.
The vault will be located on the user's sewer lateral or building sewer at a location approved by the City, and City will have access rights in order to read and maintain the meter.
Method 2. The user will install, at the user's expense, a water meter for submetering the water discharging to the public sewer. The property owner will, at his/her expense, do any necessary plumbing subject to City inspection to separate the types of water use and provide for the meter to be accessible to the City for maintenance and inspection purposes.
Method 3. If the City determines that it is impractical for a user to employ Method 1 or 2 as a result of physical difficulty or excessive cost, it may permit the user to estimate the amount of wastewater reasonably anticipated to be discharged to the public sewer.
User's estimate may be based upon average historical water use during the months of December, January, and February, or upon any other reasonable basis, and may be based upon flow meter tests if practical. The City will review the data submitt ed by the user and may modify the user's estimate, where appropriate. The decision of the City shall be final if Method 3 is utilized. If a user is not satisfied with the determination under Method 3, user shall have the right to require, at user’s expense, utilization of Method 1 or 2 for determination of the amount of wastewater discharge to the public sewer.
Measurement of strengths of BOD and SS in wastewater is the responsibility of the user, and such measurements shall be made from time to time to establish strengths to be used in the above formula. Such measurements need to be made only by those users who are known or believed to be discharging wastewater of greater than base strength.
Measurements shall be reviewed annually or at the request of user or at the option of the City's Engineer, more frequently if there is reason to believe that there has been significant change in the strength.
Random sampling of industrial wastes will also be performed by the City's Engineer pursuant to the monitoring and enforcement provisions of the Environmental Compliance Pretreatment Program.
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