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Home My Public Portal AboutOrd. 785 - Amending Water Connection Charges & Exemption of Deposits for Water/SewerORDINANCE NO.785 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF McCALL, A MUNICIPAL CORPORATION OF THE STATE OF IDAHO, AMENDING THE CONNECTION CHARGES FOR THE CITY OF MCCALL WATER SYSTEM AND THE EXEMPTION OF DEPOSITS REQUIRED FOR WATER OR SEWER SERVICE AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE. WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of McCall desires to set appropriate water system connection charges, and WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of McCall desires to provide appropriate service and encourage electronic payment of water and sewer bills, NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF McCALL, Valley County, Idaho, as follows: Section 1. Connection Charges Title 6, Chapter 4, Section 050, Subsection (A) shall be amended to read as follows: 6-4-050: CONNECTION CHARGES: (A) Water: The initial service connection charge Fund and other caah reserves. The proration shall be accompliahcd on the basis of the maximum number of users that could be connected to the aystcm existing from time to for installing a water connection to a service location that has not paid an initial water connection charge in the past, shall be established using the American Water Works Association Manual 26 based on the incremental -cost pricing method for the system buy -in amount. In addition, the The connection charge shall alse-include City provided labor, material, and equipment. The connection charge shall be deposited in the Water Revenue Fund and managed as provided by Ordinance 669 of the City of McCall adopted August 25, 1994,-ae1ess--and . The Mayor and Council shall, by resolution , determine the connection charge-aeee , such charge to be reviewed and adjusted as necessary at least every three years. Section 2. Deposit Required — Exemptions: Title 6, Chapter 4, Section 070, shall be amended to read as follows: 6-4-070: Deposit Required — Exemptions: Each applicant desiring water or sewer service or both services shall pay a refundable deposit to the City in an amount equal to the expected billings for such service(s) for three (3) months at the premises desired to be served. The City treasurer shall determine this amount based upon pertinent past service data and the information provided in the application for utility services required by section 6-4-010 of this chapter. Such deposit shall be required unless the applicant has had with the City within the past two (2) years, one or more accounts for utility service, in his/her won name, and has had satisfactory payment record for the last twelve (12) months such account(s) was (were) in effect or the applicant may provide a letter or copies of bills from another utility for twelve (12) months of current service with such utility showing a "satisfactory payment record', or the applicant agrees to maintain automatic payment of their water or sewer service or both bills for a minimum period of twelve months with a "satisfactory payment record". Failure to maintain a "satisfactory payment record" during the first twelve months of automatic payment of water or sewer or both services bills for a minimum period of twelve months with a "satisfactory payment record" will require that the applicant shall immediately pay such deposit in order to maintain service. A "satisfactory payment record" shall be defined as one in which all payments were made on or before the date due, for all accounts in effect during the aforementioned twelve (12) months. (Ord. 746, 9-28-2000) Section 3. Severability. The sections of this ordinance are severable. The invalidity of a section shall not affect the validity of the remaining sections. Section 4. Effective Date:, This Ordinance shall take effect and be in full force upon the later of October 1, 2003 or its passage, approval and publication in one issue of a newspaper of general circulation in the City of McCall. DATED this l lth day of September 2003. CITY OF McCALL Valley Couj r, Idaho By fi C /. Gam' Ra1p olt. , Ma or ATTEST: Barbara Bauer, City Clerk i Comment Bazl-1 need you to , complete this section STATE OF IDAHO } } County of Valley } City of McCall Certificate of Recording Officer I, the undersigned, the duly appointed, qualified, City Clerk of the City of McCall, Idaho, do hereby certify the following: 1. That pursuant to the provisions of Section 50-207, Idaho Code, I keep a correct journal of the proceedings of the Council of the City of McCall, Idaho, and that I am statutory custodian of all laws, ordinances and resolutions of said City. 2. That the attached Ordinance No. 785 is a true and correct copy of an ordinance passed at a regular meeting of the Council of the City of McCall held on September 11, 2003 and duly recorded in my office; and 3. That said regular meeting was duly convened and held in all respects in accordance with law and to the extent required by law, due and proper notice of such meeting and that a legally sufficient number of members of the Council voted in the proper manner and for the passage of said ordinance; and that all other requirements and proceedings incident to the proper adoption and passage of said ordinance have been duly fulfilled, carried out and observed; and that I am authorized to execute this certificate. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of McCall, Idaho this 11th day of September 2003. Barbara Bauer, City Clerk Publisher's Affidavit of Publication STATE OF IDAHO .ss County of Valley I, Carol J. Wright, being duly sworn and say, I am the receptionist of The Star -News, a weekly newspaper published at McCall, in the County of Valley, State of Idaho; that said newspaper is in general circulation in the county of afore said and is a legal newspaper; that the PUBLIC NOTICE, a copy of which isenclosed hereto and is a part hereof, was published in said newspaper once a week for a period of one week in the regular and entire issue of every number there of during the period of time of publication, and was published in the newspaper proper and not in a supplement; and that publica- tion of such notice began September 18, 2003 and ended September 18, 2003. Subscribed and srn before this the 19th day of September, 2003. STATE OF IDAHO COUNTY OF VALLEY On this 19th day of September, in the year of 2003, before me, a Notary Public, personally appeared Carol J. Wright, knownor identified to me to be the person whose name subscribed to the within instrument, and being by me first duly sworn, declared that the statements therein are true, and acknowledged to me that she executed the same. Tom Grote Notary Public for Idaho Residing at McCall, Idaho Commission Expires 2/8/06 Publisher's Affidavit of Publication STATE OF IDAHO .SS County of Valley I, Carol J. Wright, being duly sworn and say, I am the receptionist of The Star -News, a weekly newspaper published at McCall, in the County of Valley, State of Idaho; that said newspaper is in general circulation in the county of afore said and is a legal newspaper; that the PUBLIC NOTICE, a copy of which is enclosed hereto and is a part hereof, was published in said newspaper once a week for a period of two weeks in the regular and entire issue of every number there of during the period of time of publication, and was published in the newspaper proper and not in a supplement; and that publica- tion of such notice began September 4, 2003 and ended September 11, 2003. Subscribed and srn before(ahe this the 12th day of September, 2003. STATE OF IDAHO COUNTY OF VALLEY On this 12th day of September, in the year of 2003, before me, a Notary Public, personally appeared Carol J. Wright, known or identified to me to be the person whose name subscribed to the within instrument, and being by me first duly sworn, declared that the statements therein are true, and acknowledged to me that she executed the same. Tom Grote Notary Public for Idaho Residing at McCall, Idaho Commission Expires 2/8/06