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HomeMy Public PortalAbout09508 O R D I N A N C E NO. 9508 AN ORDINANCE, amending Ordinance No. 7543, as adopted September 14, 1988, and amended by Ordinance No. 8659, as adopted May 13, 1992, and Ordinance No. 8878, as adopted February 10, 1993, by repealing Section Three and Appendix I, and enacting a new Section three in lieu thereof in order to eliminate The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District's Capital Improvement Surcharges. WHEREAS, on Tuesday, August 2, 1988 a special election was held within The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District (the "District") at which more than a majority of the qualified voters of the District voted in favor of a proposition to approve a schedule of Capital Improvement Surcharges (the "Capital Improvement Surcharges") to be collected for a period of not to exceed seven years from all of the property served by the sewerage facilities of the District and to be deposited in a Clean Water Capital Improvement Trust Fund to be used for the purpose of financing certain sewage treatment facilities and other capital improvements required by the federal Clean Water Act and the Missouri Clean Water Law, to remove pollutants in wastewater discharges to the Mississippi, Missouri and Meramec Rivers (the "Consent Decree and Compliance Projects"); and WHEREAS, the funds necessary to complete the aforesaid Consent Decree and Compliance Projects will have been collected by March 31, 1995, thus eliminating the need for the Capital Improvement Surcharges, NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE METROPOLITAN ST. LOUIS SEWER DISTRICT: Section One. Section Three and Appendix I of Ordinance No. 7543, as adopted September 14, 1988, and amended by Ordinance No. 8659, as adopted May 13, 1992, and Ordinance No. 8878, as adopted February 10, 1993, are hereby respectively repealed. Section Two. A new Section Three of Ordinance No. 7543 is hereby enacted, and shall read as follows: "Section Three. Effective March 31, 1995, all Capital Improvement Surcharges, as herein specified, are eliminated." The foregoing Ordinance was adopted March 9, 1995.