AGENDA CAPTION:
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Consider approval of Ordinance 2019-38, on the first of two readings, creating a new Water and Wastewater Rate Class for Industrial Water and Wastewater customers inside and outside the City Limits with an average daily usage of over 200,000 gallons that receive water service from a meter 3" or larger; and including procedural provisions.
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Meeting date: October 15, 2019
Department: Public Services-Tom Taggart, Public Services Director
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Prior Council Action: None-new rate
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Background Information:
The City water utility has a residential and commercial rate class with inclining block rate structures. These are intended to encourage conservation by increasing rates as higher amounts are used and the resulting higher bills for non-essential uses such as landscape irrigation are a disincentive to use high amounts. The City has not historically had industry that used significant amounts of process water in the potable water system. Industry process water is essential to the product being created and is generally scaled directly to production or service levels with little to no relation to price signals for conservatio...
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