A. Creation: The city council hereby creates and establishes a storm sewer utility as part of the city's overall sewer system. The storm sewer utility shall plan, design, construct, maintain, administer and operate the city storm sewer system.
B. Enterprise Fund: The city council hereby establishes and adds a storm sewer utility enterprise to the water/sewer enterprise fund to handle all income, expenses and other financial transactions related to the storm sewer utility. All storm sewer utility service charges shall be deposited in the enterprise fund. The enterprise fund shall be operated according to state law and city policy.
C. Facilities And Assets: The storm sewer utility shall operate independently of city operations funded by the general fund. The storm sewer utility shall have the same relationship to the city as the other city utilities, such as the water utility and the sanitary sewer (wastewater) utility. Upon creation of the utility, all of the city storm sewer facilities and assets (other than streets and other facilities and assets designated by the city), shall be transferred to the storm sewer utility in consideration for the storm sewer utility's agreement to take primary responsibility for planning, designing, constructing, maintaining, administering and operating the city storm sewer system. (Ord. 10-6-98A, 10-6-1998)
D. Administration: The storm sewer utility shall be administered by and under the direction of the public works director. (Ord. 10-6-98A, 10-6-1998; amd. 2004 Code)