City of Alexandria, Virginia
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MEMORANDUM
DATE: APRIL 27, 2018
TO: THE HONORABLE MAYOR AND MEMBERS OF CITY COUNCIL
FROM: MARK B. JINKS, CITY MANAGER /s/
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Final Passage of an Ordinance to Bring the Sanitary Sewer System Capital Investment and Maintenance Fee Set Forth Therein into Conformity with the Previously Adopted Resolution Setting the Fee at $2.28 per 1,000 Gallons of Water Supplied. [ROLL-CALL-VOTE]
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ISSUE: Passage of an ordinance to increase the Sanitary Sewer System Capital Investment and Maintenance Fee from $1.82 to $2.28 per 1,000 gallons of water.
RECOMMENDATION: That City Council adopt the proposed ordinance on Thursday, May 3, 2018 setting the fee at $2.28 per 1,000 gallons of water. The new fee will be effective July 1, 2018.
BACKGROUND: The sanitary sewer system capital investment and maintenance fee (i.e. usage fee) was established to assist in recovering the costs of maintaining, inspecting and improving public sanitary sewer facilities in the City. During the FY 2004 budget process, staff outlined a proposal to begin a multi-year plan to increase the City's sanitary sewer fee so that the sanitary sewer costs are fully recovered from fees and other outside sources. Since then, the fees continue to cover the full costs, with the last increase in fees in FY 2018, when the fee increased from $1.40 to $1.82 per 1,000 gallons used.
DISCUSSION: The balanced sanitary sewers ten-year plan proposes a 25% rate increase in
FY 2019 to a Sanitary Sewer System Capital Investment and Maintenance Fee of $2.28 per 1,000 gallons. This equates to a $2.07 per household per month fee increase. The FY 2019 increase will better enable the City to respond to State legislation signed into law in April 2017 that greatly accelerates the timing requirements for the City's four combined sewer outfall (CSO) improvements. Due to this likely legislation on CSO improvements which have been previously estimated to co...
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