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ORDINANCE NO. 471-99
An Ordinance of the South Tahoe Public Utility District
Setting Water Connection Fees
Amending Administrative Code Sections 3.1.35 and 3.1.107 and Superseding
Ordinance No. 452 in its Entirety
BE IT ENACTED, by the Board of Directors of the South Tahoe Public Utility
District, County of El Dorado, as follows:
SECTION I - DEFINITIONS
For the purposes of this Ordinance, the terms used herein are defined as
The District - The South Tahoe Public Utility District.
The Board - The Board of Directors of the South Tahoe Public Utility
District.
C. General Manager - The General Manager of the South Tahoe Public Utility
District.
D. Water Capacity Unit - A total of 455 gallons of water, the amount of water
determined by the District from time to time to be the average daily use of a single
family home within the District's service area during a peak water production month.
E. Water Capacity Unit Charge - The charge established by the Board of
Directors for one (1) Water Capacity Unit.
SECTION II - FINDINGS
The Board of Directors of the South Tahoe Public Utility District, El Dorado
County, State of California, makes the following findings:
1. Notice of Hearing of this Ordinance was duly given, authorized, posted, and
published, as required by law and specifically, that said Notice fixing the time and place
of hearing on said ordinance was duly given, posted, and published, as required by
Government Code of California.
2. Pursuant to said Notice of Hearing, a hearing by the South Tahoe Public
Utility District on this proposed Ordinance was held August 19, 1999, 2:30 p.m. at the
follows:
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~lace specified in said Notice of Hearing.
3. The Notice of time and place of said meeting, including a general
explanation of the matters to be considered at said meeting was published on August 6
and August 13, 1999.
4. At least ten (10) days prior to said public meeting, the data indicating the
amount of the cost required to provide new water connections for which water
connection fees are proposed for adoption pursuant to this Ordinance was available to
the public.
5. The existing rates for providing new water connections are less than the
cost of providing such service.
SECTION III - WATER CONNECTIONS
1. Water Connection Fees. The Board shall establish a fee schedule for water
connections and administration fees. Refer to Section IV. In establishing such fee
schedule, the Board shall consider the costs and expenses incident to the installation of
water service or other work for which an application has been made. Connection
charges will include the following:
a) Water Capacity Unit Charge. A water capacity unit charge shall be set
by the Board. There shall be one water capacity unit charge per water
capacity unit, with a minimum of one water capacity unit. In reviewing
an application, the District shall estimate the water capacity units
required for the connection. Within two (2) years of the issuance of
the Certificate of Occupancy for the premises, the District will complete
an evaluation of the actual average day during peak month use. The
average day during peak month use may be evaluated using a
successive 30-day period as determined at the reasonable discretion
of the District. The actual water capacity units required for the
connection shall be the ratio that the actual measured average day
during peak month use bears to a water capacity unit. If the required
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water capacity units, as determined by the actual measured average
day during peak month use, differ from the estimated water capacity
units that provided the basis for the initial water capacity unit charge,
then the applicant will be assessed an additional charge or will receive
a refund such that the applicant's total payment will equal the actual
water capacity unit charge. Refer to Section IV, paragraph 1, Water
Rate Schedule l(a).
b) Administrative Costs. The applicant shall pay the actual administrative
costs incurred in reviewing and processing the application, but in no
event less than the minimum administration fee. Refer to Section IV,
Paragraph 1, Water Rate Schedule l(b).
c) Meter Costs. The applicant shall pay for the cost and installation of
any meters. The design of such meters shall be approved by the
District.
2. Water connection fees, as determined from time to time by the Board, apply
to all new connections. Connection fee revenue is used to evaluate potential projects
related to the water enterprise of the District; to plan, study, undertake, complete and
finance such capital projects; to pay the costs incurred by the District to provide and
inspect new connections, including the portion of the connector's obligation for the
accumulated equity in the water enterprise and the District's costs in coordinating with
other governmental entities to facilitate such connection.
3. The water service connection application will be for a specific structure on a
parcel with a fixed amount of sewer discharge capacity and square footage for irrigation
of lawn, gardens, shrubbery or other similar items. Any change of use, which requires
an estimated addition of at least one water capacity unit, will require a new water
connection application based on an initial projection estimate of use by the applicant
and a two (2) year evaluation as provided in Section III, Paragraph l(a).
4. Water connections may not be transferred from one parcel to another.
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5. Credits for previous service will not be given if the previous service
connection has been eliminated.
6. The District shall review all metered connection applications with the
exception of single family, duplex, and triplex residential applications. The District
review shall include an evaluation of the average day during peak month use and fee
requirement. The District may, in its discretion, review single family, duplex and triplex
residential applications.
7. Revenue sources of the District, including the connection fees imposed by
this Ordinance, will provide services for which these charges are imposed and for which
there is available capacity in the District water system. If the District's facilities are not
sufficient to serve the needs described in the application, or are required to be modified
or relocated, then the additional cost required to serve the needs described in the
application will be the responsibility of the applicant.
8. Neither this Ordinance, nor payment of the connection fees described in
this Ordinance, shall constitute approval of any capital project.
SECTION IV -WATER RATE SCHEDULE
1. Schedule No. 1 - Water Connection Fees
a) Water Capacity Unit Charge $1,665.00
b) Minimum Administration Fee $ 150.00
2. Effective January 1, 2001, and January I of each year thereafter, the
Water Capacity Unity Charge, as provided in Section IV, Paragraph l(a), will be
adjusted according to the Engineering News Record's Construction Cost Index,
National Average, for the prior twelve-month period, to reflect cost changes.
SECTION V - ADMINISTRATION
1. The effective date of this Ordinance is January 1, 2000.
2. The provisions of this Ordinance shall be administered and enforced by the
District through the General Manager, who may delegate such enforcement to one or
more employees of the District.
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3. Any applicant for water connection may appeal any administrative decision
pertaining to a water connection under this Ordinance to the Board by filing a written
appeal with the Clerk of the Board within 10 days from the date of the action or
decision. The Board may, in its discretion, affirm, reverse, or modify any District action
undertaken pursuant to this Ordinance.
SECTION VI - SEVERABILITY
If any section, subsection, subdivision, paragraph, sentence, clause or phrase of
this ordinance, in whole or any part, is for any reason held to be invalid, such holding
shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this Ordinance or any part
thereof. The Board declares that it would have passed each section, subsection,
subdivision, paragraph, sentence, clause, or phrase, in whole or any part, irrespective
of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, subdivisions, paragraphs,
sentences, clauses or phrases be declared invalid.
PASSED AND ENACTED by the Board of Directors of the South Tahoe Public
Utility District at its Regular Meeting on the 19th day of August, 1999 by the following
vote:
AYES: Directors Wallace,
Mosbacher.
NOES: None
Strohm, Jones,
Gochnauer,
ABSENT: None
DATED: August 19, 1999
Kathy Sharp,4Clerk~bf the Bo~d ano
Ex-Officio S~cretary of the Board of Directors
James R. Jones, F~Csident of the Board
bth Tahoe Pub~' Utility District
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1275 Meadow Crest Drive · South Lake Tahoe, CA 96150
Phone: (530) 544-6474 · Facsimile'. (530) 541-O614
Robert G, Baer, General Manager
Christopher H. Strohm
James R. Jones
Mary Lou Mcsbacher
Duane Wallace
Pembroke Gochnauer
August 24, 1999
Mr. Joe Harn, Auditor- Controller
County of El Dorado
360 Fair Lane
Placerville, CA 95667
Dear Mr. Harn:
Enclosed please find certified copies of the following Ordinances:
Ordinance No. 471-99 - Setting Water Connection Fees Amending Administrative
Code Sections 3.1.35 and 3.1.107 and Superseding Ordinance No. 452 in its entirety.
Ordinance No. 472-99 - Setting Sewer Connection Fees Amending Administrative
Code Sections 4.1.130 and 4.1.131, 4.1.132, 4.1.134, and Superseding Ordinance No.
413 in its Entirety.
If you should have any questions regarding these Ordinances, please contact the
Manager of Customer Service, Diane Noble, at extension 221.
Sincerely,
Kathy Sharp
Clerk of the Board/
Executive Secretary
Enclosures
CC;
Diane Noble
Rhonda McFarlane
1275 Meadow Crest Ddve · South Lake Tahoe, CA 96150
Phone: (530) 544-6474. Facsimile: (5,30) 541-O614
Robert G. Baer, General Manager
Christopher H. Strohm
James R. Jones
Mary Lou Mosbacher
Duane Wallace
Pembroke Gochnauer
CERTIFICATION
I hereby certify that the foregoing is a full, true, and correct copy of
Ordinance No. 471-99 duly and regularly adopted by the Board of Directors of
the South Tahoe Public Utility District, County of El Dorado, State of California,
on August 19, 1999.
"K~thy ShCi, ~~, Clerk of theZBoard
South Ta'i~e Public Utility District
AFFIDAVIT OF POSTING
State of California )
)ss
County of El Dorado )
~,,~~'~' ' ,-'~eing first duly sworn, deposes and
I,
says:
That for and on behalf of the Clerk of Board of the SOUTH TAHOE
PUBLIC UTILITY DISTRICT, affiant posted copies of t/'~r~_,. ~. q-'~ I-q(
in form attached hereto and by reference made a pa~ hereof, in four (4) public
places in the District as follows'
City of South Lake Tahoe
Administration Building
South Lake Tahoe, CA
Al Tahoe Post Office Station
South Lake Tahoe, CA
Tahoe Valley Post Office Station (Y area)
South Lake Tahoe, CA
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4. Tahoe Paradise Post Office Station
South Lake Tahoe, CA
That said posting was completed on the /
day of ~'7~
Subscribed and sworn
to me this
day of
19
Clerk of the Board
SOUTH TAHOE PUBLIC UTILITY DISTRICT
SOUTH TAHOE PUBLIC UTILITY
DISTRICT
1275 MEADOW CREST DRIVE
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, CA 96150
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
County of El Dorado
I am a citizen of the United States
and a resident of the County
foresaid; I am over eighteen years,
and not a part to or interested in
the above entitled matter, I am the
principal clerk of the printer of the
Tahoe Daily Tribune, a newspaper
of general circulation, printed and
published Monday through Friday
in the City of South Lake Tahoe,
County of El Dorado, and which
newspaper has been adjudicated a
newspaper of general circulation
by the Superior Court of the
County of El Dorado, State of
California under the date March 6,
1970, Case Number 18569, that
the notice of which the annexed is
a printed copy (set in type not
smaller than six (6) point), has
been published in each regular
and entire issue of said newspaper
and not in any supplemental
therefore on the following dates, to
wit:
August 6, 13, 1999
I certify under penalty, that the
foregoing is true and correct.
Dated at South Lake Tahoe,
California this:
13th Day of AL~) Mst 1999
~i Moore-Legal,/~lerk
the South Tahoe Pub lc Utility
District (the District) will hold a
hearing at 2:30 p.m. on
ThurSday, August 19, 1999, as
part of a regularly ~cheduled
meeting, in the Board Room (3
the City of South Lake Tahoe
1900 Lake Tahoe Boulevard.
South Lake Tahoe, Callfomi~
at which oral or written
presentations can be made
any person, r
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Dated 8/2/99
M. Noble, Customer