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ORDINANCE NO. 472-99
An Ordinance of the South Tahoe Public Utility District
Setting Sewer Connection Fees
Amending Administrative Code Sections 4.1.130 and 4.1.131, 4.1.132, 4.1.~34,
and Superseding Ordinance No. 4~3 in its Entirety
BE IN ENACTED, by the Board of Directors of the South Tahoe Public Utility
District, Country 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.
General Manager - The General Manager of the South Tahoe Public Utility
District.
D Sewer Unit - An estimated measurement of flow and strength of wastewater
discharged to the District's sewer system. A sewer unit represents
incremental capacity rights in the form of fixtures or facilities causing actual
or potential wastewater discharge to the District's sewer system. A sewer
unit is used for the purposes of determining the assessment of sewer
connection fees.
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
place specified in said Notice of Hearing.
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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 sewer connections for which sewer
connection fees are proposed for adoption pursuant to this Ordinance was available to
the public.
5. The existing rates for providing new sewer connections are less than the
cost of providing such service as determined by a comprehensive sewer study
authorized by the Board.
6. The rates adopted by this Ordinance will then reflect the actual cost of
providing each of the services for which charges are imposed.
SECTION III - SEWER CONNECTIONS
1. Sewer connection charges shall be determined as follows:
a) A sewer connection fee shall be paid to the District by the applicant
desiring connection to the District sewer system based upon the number of sewer units
which are required for the applicant's project. Refer to Section IV, Paragraph 1,
Schedule No. 1.
b) At any time sewer capacity is added to any parcel for which the initial
connection charge has been previously paid in an amount which did not include such
additional capacity, as a condition to such parcel remaining connected to the District
sewer system, there shall be a subsequent connection charge to provide for the
additional sewer capacity requirements. Refer to Section IV,~Paragraph 1, Schedule
No. 1.
2. A fee shall be paid to the District for issuing a sewer permit to connect and
inspect a sewer lateral. Refer to Section IV, Paragraph 2, Schedule No. 3.
3. A re-inspection fee may be charged by the District for re-inspection of
condemned work. Refer to Section IV, Paragraph 3, Schedule No. 5.
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4. Sewer 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 sewer 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 sewer enterprise and the District's costs in coordinating with
other governmental entities to facilitate such connection.
5. Neither this Ordinance, nor payment of the connection fees described in this
Ordinance, shall constitute approval of any capital project.
SECTION IV - SEWER RATE SCHEDULE
Schedule No. 1 -
Sewer Connection Fee, effective January 1, 2000
Schedule No. 3 - Sewer Permit Fee
Schedule No. 5 - Re-inspection Fee
- $2,100.00
$50.00
$50.00
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4. Effective January 1, 2001, and January 1 of each year thereafter, the
Sewer Connection Fee, as provided in Section IV, Paragraph 1, 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. As an addition to
this adjustment, the Sewer Connection Fee, as provided in Section IV, Paragraph 1,
shall be increased by One hundred dollars ($100.00) on January 1 of each of the
following years: 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2004.
SECTION V - ADMINISTRATION
1. The effective date of this Ordinance is January 1, 2000.
2. The provisions of this Ordinance will be administered and enforced by the
District through the General Manager, who may delegate such enforcement to one or
more employees of the District.
3. Any applicant for sewer connection may appeal any District decision
pertaining to a sewer connection under this Ordinance to the Board by filing a written
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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
ABSENT: None
Strohm, Jones,
Gochnauer,
DATED: August 19, 1999
james R. Jones, pre/sident of the Boar
/oOth Tahoe Pu~4Jtility District
Kathy Sharp/C;le~ bf the Bj~ard and
I Ex-Officio Sre~retary of the Board of Directors
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1275 Meadow Crest Drive · South Lake Tahoe, CA 96150
Phone: (530) 544-6474 · Facsimile: (.530) 541-0614
Robert G, Baer, General Manager
Christopher H. Strohm
James R. Jones
Mary Lou Mcsbacher
Duane Wallace
Pembroke Gochnauer
August24,1999
Mr. Joe Ham, Auditor- Controller
County of El Dorado
360 Fair Lane
Placerville, CA 95667
Dear Mr. Ham:
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 Sh~i'rp
Clerk of the Board/
Executive Secretary
Enclosures
CC:
Diane Noble
Rhonda McFarlane
1275 Meadow Crest Drive - South Lake Tahoe, CA 96150
Phone: (5,30) 54A-6474 · Facsimile: (530) 541-0614
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. 472-99 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.
.... I~'~tl~y ~ha;r~l'~k of the Be/ard
South Tahde Public Utility District
AFFIDAVIT OF POSTING
State of California )
)ss
County o_9~EL.D~do ~ )
l, ~"~'---r-~g.~irst duly sworn, deposes and says'
/
That f~or and on behalf of the Clerk of Board of the SOUTH TAHOE
DISTRICT, affiant posted copies of ~' ~ ~ ~
PUBLIC
UTILITY
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
4. Tahoe Paradise Post Office Station
South Lake Tahoe, CA
That said posting was completed on the [.Q0
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Signed by'
Subscribed and sworn
to me this
day of
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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 A~ust 1999
~rrr'i Moore- Legal/lerk
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that the Board of Directors of
the South Tahoe Public Utility
District (the District) will hold a
hearing at 2:30 p.m. on
Thursday, August 19, 1999, as
part of a regularly scheduled
meeting, in the Board Room of
the City of South Lake Tahoe,
1900 Lake Tahoe Boulevard.,
South Lake Tahoe, California
at which * oral ' or written
presentations can be made by
any person, 'ilncluding those
owning property within the J
boundaries of the District
regarding ~- the · District's
p_roposed Water Connectlonl
Fees as outlined by proposed
Ordinance No. 471-99 entitled
"AN ORDINANCE OF THE
SOUTH TAHOE ~. ~PUBLIC
UTILIT~ DISTRICT SETTING
WATER 'CONNECTION FEES
A M-~E' N D ' I N
ADMINISTRATIVE CODE
SECTIONS 3.1.35 AND
3.1.107 AND SUPERSEDING
ORDINANCE NO. 452 IN ITS
ENTIRE'T~, and the District's
proposed Sewer Connection
Fees as outlined by proposed
Ordin~rice No. 472-99 entitled
'AN ORDINANCE OF.THE
SOUTH TAHOE, PUBLIC
UTILITY DISTRICT SETTING
SEWER CONNECTION FEES,
A M E N D :1 N 'G
ADMINISTRATIVE CODE
SECTIONS 4.1.130, 4.1.131,
4.1.132, 4.1.134 AND
SUPERSEDING ORDINANCE
NO. 413 IN ITS ENTIRETY."
The matters to be considered
are the proposed increases in
fees' for the new water and
sewer service connections.
The proposed fee increases do
not exceed the estimated
reasonable cost of providing
said new service. Beginning
August 9, 1999, et the offiCes
of the District, 1275 Meadow
Crest Drive, South Lake
Tahoe, California, there will be
available to the public, the
proposed Ordinances 471-99
and 472-99.
Dated 8/2/99
/s/Diane M. Noble, Customer
service Manager
South Tahoe Public Utility
District: ?' ... .
'FDT Aug. 6, 13,1999