HomeMy Public PortalAboutAB00-122CITY COUNCIL City Of McCall
AGENDA BILL 216 East Park Street
Number AB 00-122 McCall, ID 83638
Date October 26, 2000
ITEM INFORMATION
SUBJECT:
Original
Agenda Date & Bill No.
Department/Committee/Individual
Initials
Remarks
Hardship Adjustment
A
Mayor / Council
P
City Manager
P
City Treasurer
Originator
R
City Attorney
O
City Engineer
V
City Planner
A
Public Works
L
Golf Course/Parks Superintendent
COST IMPACT:
S
Recreation Director
FUNDING
SOURCE:
City Clerk
Airport Manager
TIMELINE:
Librarian
Police Chief
SUMMARY STATEMENT:
The applicant is an elderly man with serious health
problems that have left him unable to work. His monthly income is $400.00, which has been loaned to him by another member of the community. Social Security and Veterans Pension have
not yet been approved. Attached is the request for hardship adjustment. A copy of Agenda Bill 99-06 dated 1/14/99 and section 6-4-250 of City Code are also attached to assist in Council
consideration.
The amount of relief is to be determined by Council. Staff recommends that the hardship be granted at the “relief base rate” for a family of one. The rate would be
$22.50 per month with a usage limit of 6,000 gallons. Any usage over this limit would be charged at $1.04 per 1,000 gallons. Sewer would be charged at the current rate of $24.50.
This would result in a total monthly bill of $47.00 if the applicant remains within the usage limits.
Applying this new rate to the applicant’s account since the billing date of 1/15/00
would result in the following credit:
Billing Date Month of Service Amount Billed Adjusted Billing Credit Due
1/15/00 12/99
56.24 47.00 9.24
2/15/00 1/00 67.20 47.00
20.20
3/15/00 2/00 77.59 47.00 30.59
4/15/00 3/00 77.15
47.00 30.15
5/15/00 4/00 79.38 47.00 32.38
6/15/00
5/00 82.78 47.00 35.78
7/15/00 6/00 82.83
47.00 35.83
8/15/00 7/00 83.94 47.00 36.94
9/15/00
8/00 77.96 47.00 30.96
10/15/00 9/00 78.74 47.00
31.74
Total Credit Due $293.81
The current water base rate
is $42.70 per month. Granting a hardship to the applicant would create a differential of $20.20 per month in addition to the above-calculated credit. 6-4-250 of City Code states “In
the event relief is granted, it shall be accomplished not by modification of the otherwise applicable rates or schedules as herein contained, but by determining a differential between
the usual rate and the allowed rate; the differential shall be reimbursed from the General Fund by crediting said amount to the account for the user receiving the allowance”. The differentials
and credits on hardships that have been granted in the past have not been reimbursed from the General Fund.
SUMMARY STATEMENT:
The applicant is an elderly man with serious health problems that have left him unable to work. His monthly income is $400.00, which has been loaned to him by
another member of the community. Social Security and Veterans Pension have not yet been approved. Attached is the request for hardship adjustment. A copy of Agenda Bill 99-06 dated
1/14/99 and section 6-4-250 of City Code are also attached to assist in Council consideration.
The amount of relief is to be determined by Council. Staff recommends that the hardship
be granted at the “relief base rate” for a family of one. The rate would be $22.50 per month with a usage limit of 6,000 gallons. Any usage over this limit would be charged at $1.04
per 1,000 gallons. Sewer would be charged at the current rate of $24.50. This would result in a total monthly bill of $47.00 if the applicant remains within the usage limits.
Applying
this new rate to the applicant’s account since the billing date of 1/15/00 would result in the following credit:
Billing Date Month of Service Amount Billed
Adjusted Billing Credit Due
1/15/00 12/99 56.24 47.00 9.24
2/15/00 1/00
67.20 47.00 20.20
3/15/00 2/00 77.59 47.00
30.59
4/15/00 3/00 77.15 47.00 30.15
5/15/00 4/00
79.38 47.00 32.38
6/15/00 5/00 82.78 47.00
35.78
7/15/00 6/00 82.83 47.00 35.83
8/15/00 7/00 83.94
47.00 36.94
9/15/00 8/00 77.96 47.00 30.96
10/15/00
9/00 78.74 47.00 31.74
Total Credit Due $293.81
The current water base rate is $42.70 per month. Granting a hardship to the applicant would create a differential of $20.20 per month
in addition to the above-calculated credit. 6-4-250 of City Code states “In the event relief is granted, it shall be accomplished not by modification of the otherwise applicable rates
or schedules as herein contained, but by determining a differential between the usual rate and the allowed rate; the differential shall be reimbursed from the General Fund by crediting
said amount to the account for the user receiving the allowance”. The differentials and credits on hardships that have been granted in the past have not been reimbursed from the General
Fund.
RECOMMENDED ACTION:
Approve the hardship request for adjustment with a status review each year and credit the account in the amount of $293.81.
Assign a line item _____
from the General Fund to reimburse the rate differential and the credit on the applicant’s account and all other approved hardships in the future.
RECORD OF COUNCIL ACTION
Meeting
Date
Action
October 26, 2000
Approved the hardship request for adjustment with a status review each year and credit the account in the amount of $429.53.