A. The purpose of the Clean Water and Storm Protection fee is to conserve and protect the City’s essential values of maintaining our aging storm drainage infrastructure, encouraging groundwater replenishment, and maintaining a sustainable environment in accordance with the Clean Water Act, EPA regulations and the City’s NPDES permits.
B. The specific purpose of the Clean Water and Storm Protection fee established pursuant to this chapter is to derive fee revenue, which shall only be used for the acquisition, construction, reconstruction, maintenance, and operation of the storm drainage system of the City or related green infrastructure or other activities required by the City’s NPDES permits, to repay principal and interest on any bonds which may hereafter be issued for said purposes, to repay loans or advances which may hereafter be made for said purposes, and for any other purpose set forth in Section 3.38.160.
C. The Clean Water and Storm Protection fee is imposed pursuant to Articles XIII C and D of the California Constitution, Government Code Sections 38900 - 38901 and 53755 - 53756, and Health and Safety Code Section 5471 - 5473.11.
D. Proceeds from the Clean Water and Storm Protection fee will be deposited in the “environmental management/clean creeks fund” created by Section 3.36.170 of Chapter 3.36 of the Municipal Code (Storm Drainage Service Charge) as the “storm drainage service charge fund” and subsequently renamed, and may be comingled with the revenues of the City’s storm drainage service charge because they are authorized to be used for the same purposes.
(Ord. 19-2183, 2019)