Ordinance No. 574-19 Street LightsORDINANCE NO. 574-19
AN ORDINANCE OF THE SOUTH TAHOE PUBLIC UTILITY DISTRICT
AMENDING ORDINANCES NO. 404 AND 361 AND SECTIONS 5.1.5, 5.1.6,
5.1.7AND 5.1.8 OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE CODE REGARDING SERVICE
CHARGE RATES FOR STREET LIGHTING
BE IT ENACTED by the Board of Directors of the South Tahoe Public Utility
District, County of El Dorado, State of California, as follows:
SECTION 1 — POLICY AND PURPOSE
The purpose of this Ordinance is to provide a schedule of service charge rates for
street lighting services provided by Liberty Utilities.
SECTION II — DEFINITIONS
For the purpose of this Ordinance, the terms used in this ordinance are defined as
follows:
A. The District — The South Tahoe Public Utility District.
B. The Board — The Board of Directors of the South Tahoe Public Utility
District.
C. Administrative Code — The compilation and codification of all of the
Administrative, Water, Sewer, Street Lighting and Groundwater
Management Plan Ordinances of the District, which establish the authority
and the principles for the decisions of the District, and provide the public
with guidelines applicable to District operations.
D. Liberty Utilities- An investor owned public utility subject to the
jurisdiction of the California Public Utilities Commission
SECTION III — FINDINGS
The Board of Directors of the South Tahoe Public Utility District, County of El
Dorado, State of California, make the following findings:
1. Liberty Utilities owns, maintains and operates certain street lights subject
to this Ordinance and sends the District an invoice for the cost of electricity consumed by
the street lights.
2. The District does not provide street lighting services, but instead provides
billing services for Liberty Utilities. The District invoices and collects revenue from
certain customers benefiting from the street lights and then remits the revenue to Liberty
Utilities in connection with Liberty Utilities street lighting services. As a result, the
service charge rates for street lighting are exempt from the requirements of Proposition
218.
3. Liberty Utilities has notified the District of the costs to provide electricity
for the street lighting on an annual basis per lineal foot of lands abutting upon a public
street serviced with street lighting facilities are as follows:
a. Pioneer Village Area is $2.85 per year per lineal foot;
b. Bijou Area is $.80 per year per lineal foot;
C. South Y Area is $1.68 per year per lineal foot; and,
d. Ski Run Area is $1.68 per year per lineal foot.
4. The proposed amendment is necessary due to rate increases by Liberty
Utilities as approved by the California Public Utilities Commission. The increase in the
service charge rates for street lighting will meet Liberty Utilities' costs and expenses for
furnishing electricity in connection with its street lighting services in the above areas.
SECTION IV — AMEND ORDINANCE NUMBERS 404 AND 361 AND SECTIONS
5.1.5, 5.1.6, 5.1.7 AND 5.1.8 OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE CODE
Ordinance numbers 361 and 404 and the sections 5.1.5, 5.1.6, 5.1.7 and 5.1.8 of
the Administrative Code shall be amended to reflect the following street lighting service
charge rate schedules:
Street Lighting Rate Schedules
Section 5.1.5 Schedule 1
Ski Run Area is $1.68 per lineal foot
Section 5.1.6 Schedule 2
Pioneer Village Area is $2.85 per lineal foot
Section 5.1.7 Schedule 3
Bijou Area is $.80 per lineal foot
Section 5.1.8 Schedule 4
South Y Area is $1.68 per lineal foot
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SECTION V — SEVERABILITY
If any section, subsection, subdivision, paragraph, sentence, clause or phrase of
this Ordinance and its implementing rules and regulations is for any reason held to be
unconstitutional or invalid, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining
portions of this Ordinance or the Administrative Code. The Board of Directors declares
and determines that it would have passed section, subsection, subdivision, paragraph,
sentence, clause or phrase thereof of this Ordinance and its implementing rules and
regulations and the Administrative Code irrespective of the fact that any one or more
sections, subsections, subdivisions, paragraphs, sentences, clauses or phrases may be
determined to be unconstitutional or invalid.
SECTION VI — EFFECTIVE DATE
This Ordinance adding the above referenced sections to the Administrative Code
shall take effect 30 days after its passage.
PASSED AND ADOPTED the Board of Directors of the South Tahoe Public
Utility District at its duly held regular meeting on the 20th day of June 2019, by the
following vote:
AYES: JONES, VOGELGESANG, SHEEHAN, EXLINE
NOES: NONE
ABSENT: CEFALU
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Randy Vogelgesang, President
South Tahoe Public Utility District
ATTEST: 7&411�
Melonie Guttry, Clerk of t card
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