HomeMy Public PortalAboutRes-CC-2018-02CITY OF MOAB RESOLUTION NO. 02-2018, A RESOLUTION REVISING
MISCELLANEOUS CULINARY WATER USE FEES AND CLARIFYING
RATES FOR MULTIPLE RESIDENTIAL DWELLINGS THAT SNARE A
WATER METER
The following describes the intent and purpose of this resolution:
a. The City of Moab significantly revised its culinary water use rates in June 2017;
b. These revisions did not address the following: Fire Line rate, Bed and Breakfast
rates, the Firefighter rate, and rates assessed to City parks and cemeteries and
water used from the Golf Course Well #7,
c. Revenues from the current culinary water user fees have typically been
insufficient to cover the City's ongoing operations and maintenance needs for the
water system. Historically this has required that the City subsidize the culinary
water system, principally from wastewater treatment revenues or other City
revenues;
d. The City anticipates higher operations and maintenance costs as demands on the
system increase and infrastructure ages;
e. The City finds that it is necessary and appropriate that culinary water user fees
pay for all of the ongoing operations and maintenance needs of the system;
f. The City wishes to simplify the rate schedule where it is reasonable to do so,
which is manifested here by removing the Firefighter and Bed and Breakfast rates
from the schedule entirely. Firefighters will be assessed standard residential rates
and Bed and Breakfasts will be assessed standard commercial rates;
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The City finds that it is necessary and appropriate that culinary water user fees be
structured so as to encourage conservation and the efficient use of water;
h. The City wishes to not inadvertently charge higher rates to residential customers
who share a single water meter as of the date of this resolution; therefore, where
multiple residences currently share a single water meter, the City Manager has
discretion to apply either the commercial or the residential rate, based on an
analysis of actual use and other information, if: 1) the standard residential rate
would result in an unfair or inequitable charge; and 2) the modification would be
fair to the other users of the system.
i. The City has water rate setting authority pursuant to U.C.A. § io-8-14(2); and
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k. The City finds that the following rate structure is reasonable and consistent with
the objectives and policies described above.
Therefore, the City hereby enacts the culinary water rates in Schedule A, attached.
The foregoing resolution is approved and adopted by action of the Moab City Council, as
set forth below. This resolution shall take effect on January 9, 2018.
Mayor Emily.S _lliet.rat./.s
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Rachel Stenta, Recorder ,
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