(a) Definitions. For the purpose of this section, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
(1) “Biochemical Oxygen Demand” or “BOD” means the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days at 20o centigrade, expressed in terms of weight and concentrations as milligrams per liter.
(2) “Capital charges” means those amounts paid by each premise connected to the wastewater works to pay the debt service requirements and capital expenditures to enlarge or improve the wastewater facilities.
(3) “Capital costs” means those expenditures, including debt service payments, to enlarge or improve the wastewater facilities.
(4) “Chemical Oxygen Demand” or “COD” means the quantity of oxygen utilized in the chemical oxidation of organic matter, expressed in terms of milligrams per liter.
(5) “Commercial user” means any private establishment such as restaurants, hotels, stores, filling stations, or recreational facilities with dry weather wastewater flows less than 25,000 gallons per day and whose discharge; does not interfere with the treatment process; is not toxic; or does not reduce the utility of the sludge.
(6) “Industrial User” means any user of the wastewater works that discharges industrial wastes.
(7) “Institutional User” means any private, nonprofit entity or public entity such as churches, schools, hospitals, Municipal offices, or charitable organizations with dry weather wastewater flows less than 25,000 gallons per day and whose discharge: does not interfere with the treatment process; is not toxic; or does not reduce the utility of the sludge.
(8) “Manager” means the Manager or the authorized agent or representative of said Manager.
(9) “Normal domestic wastes” means wastes with concentrations of 200 milligrams per liter BOD and 250 milligrams per liter SS and 13 milligrams per liter P.
(10) “Operation, maintenance, and replacement costs” means those costs, including labor, materials, supplies, equipment accessories, and appurtenances, required to operate the facilities, keep the facilities in operating condition, and maintain the capacity and performance during the service life of the wastewater works for which such works were designed and constructed.
(11) “Phosphorus” means the total phosphorus content of a sample including all of the orthophosphates and condensed phosphates, both soluble and insoluble, and organic and inorganic species, and referred to in “Standard Methods” as total phosphorus.
(12) “Replacement costs” means the costs of accessories or appurtenances, including installation, which are necessary during the useful life of the treatment works to maintain the capacity and performance for which such works were designed and constructed.
(13) “Residential user” means all users of the wastewater works not classified as an industrial user, commercial user, or institutional user.
(14) “Sewer rental fees” means the total capital charge and user charge paid by each premise connected to the wastewater works.
(15) Suspended solids” means the total suspended matter that floats on the surface of, or is suspended in, wastewater and that is removable by laboratory filtering.
(16) “User” means any person who discharges or causes or permit the discharge of wastewater into the wastewater system or the owner or occupant of any property from which said discharge is made.
(17) “User charge” means the amount paid by each premise connected to the wastewater works proportionate to the service provided. This charge shall cover all operation, maintenance, and replacement costs for the facilities.
(18) “Wastewater works” means the complete wastewater collection, treatment and disposal systems of the Municipality including all works, instrumentalities, or properties used or useful therein.
(Ord. 632. Passed 4-26-82.)
(b) Establishment of Sewer Rental Fees.
(1) Beginning with the billings on the dates set forth below, and thereafter, the following shall be the monthly rates charged for the supplying of wastewater services by the Municipal wastewater worksg.
(2) The user charges shall result in the distribution of operation, maintenance, and replacement costs of the treatment works within the jurisdiction of the Municipality to each user in proportion to such user’s contribution of the total wastewater loading of the treatment works. Factors such as strength, volume, and delivery flow rate characteristics shall be included to ensure a proportional distribution of the costs.
(3) User charges for wastewater treatment service shall be paid by each user connected to the system. User charges consist of a monthly billing charge and commodity charge. The commodity charge shall be based on the quantity of water discharged to the system as measured by the water meter installed on the discharge pipe therefrom (or as estimated by the Municipality). The cost of installation, operation, and maintenance and any and all other costs for the meter, shall be paid for by the users.
(4) The owner of each property utilizing water from a source other than the water works system of the Municipality, shall measure the quantity of such water by installing, without cost to the Municipality, a meter to measure the quantity of such water. No meter shall be installed or be used for such purpose without the approval of the Manager. If the owner of said property fails to install and maintain, at his expense, an approved meter, the Manager shall make an estimate of the amount of water from sources other than the Municipal water works system which is discharged into the Municipal wastewater works from said property, using the consumption of water from similar operations, and bill such estimated water so discharged into the wastewater works as though the same was metered.
(5) The quantity of water which a property utilizes for an industrial or commercial purpose, but is not discharged into the Municipal wastewater works, may be determined by measurement by a device installed and maintained without cost to the Municipality, by the user; said measurement may be made either of waste discharged into the wastewater works, or of said quantity of water not so discharged. However, no such device shall be installed or used without the approval of the Manager as to the measuring device so employed and as to the Manager of installation. Each such meter installed shall be billed separately.
A. Capital charges result in the distribution of wastewater related capital improvements and debt service costs within the jurisdiction of the Municipality to each user. The bulk of the revenue required through sewer rental fees to meet capital costs shall be generated through a demand charge.
B. The demand charge shall be computed in accordance with the probable demand a user places on the system as measured by the capacity ratio of the water meter thereon. Additional revenue shall result from a demand surcharge levied on outside-the-Municipality users.
(6) For any multiple unit family dwelling which is supplied through a single meter, the service charge for a 3/4 inch meter shall be applied to each separate unit of such dwelling regardless of the size of the meter. Commodity charges shall apply as though the dwelling was a single family unit. (Ord. 1017. Passed 9-12-94.)
(7) Each user connected to the wastewater works shall pay charges equal to the rates below. In the case of a non-industrial user, the user shall pay a flat rate based on an average consumption of 1,000 cf per month and 5/8" meter, unless an accurate measurement of volume discharge is made.
(Ord. 1017. Passed 9-12-94; Ord. 1067. Passed 9-23-96; Ord. 1107. Passed 12-14-98; Ord. 1112. Passed 2-8-99; Ord. 1123. Passed 6-28-99.)
MINIMUM CHARGES PER MONTH
SERVICE CHARGES
Effective Date | ||||||||||||
5/1/2023 | 5/1/2023 | 1/1/2024 | 1/1/2024 | 1/1/2025 | 1/1/2025 | 1/1/2026 | 1/1/2026 | |||||
Meter Size | Inside Corporation | Outside Corporation | Inside Corporation | Outside Corporation | Inside Corporation | Outside Corporation | Inside Corporation | Outside Corporation | ||||
5/8" 3/4" | $21.50 | $43.00 | $23.00 | $46.00 | $24.50 | $49.00 | $26.00 | $52.00 | ||||
1" | $37.63 | $75.25 | $40.25 | $80.50 | $42.88 | $85.75 | $45.50 | $91.00 | ||||
1 ½" | $53.75 | $107.50 | $57.50 | $115.00 | $61.25 | $122.50 | $65.00 | $130.00 | ||||
2" | $86.00 | $172.00 | $92.00 | $184.00 | $98.00 | $109.00 | $104.00 | $208.00 | ||||
3" | $268.75 | $537.50 | $287.50 | $575.00 | $306.25 | $612.50 | $325.00 | $650.00 | ||||
4" | $349.38 | $698.75 | $373.75 | $747.50 | $398.13 | $796.25 | $422.50 | $845.00 | ||||
6" | $510.63 | $1,021.25 | $546.25 | $1,092.50 | $581.88 | $1,163.75 | $617.50 | $1,235.00 | ||||
8" | $913.75 | $1,827.50 | $977.50 | $1,955.00 | $1,041.25 | $2,082.50 | $1,105.00 | $2,210.00 | ||||
10" | $1,720.00 | $3,440.00 | $1,840.00 | $3,680.00 | $1,960.00 | $3,920.00 | $2.080.00 | $4,160.00 | ||||
Effective Date | ||||||||||||
5/1/2023 | 5/1/2023 | 1/1/2024 | 1/1/2024 | 1/1/2025 | 1/1/2025 | 1/1/2026 | 1/1/2026 | |||||
Inside Corporation | Outside Corporation | Inside Corporation | Outside Corporation | Inside Corporation | Outside Corporation | Inside Corporation | Outside Corporation | |||||
Commodity Charge per 100 cu.ft. (ccf) | $2.26 | $2.51 | $2.42 | $2.68 | $2.58 | $2.87 | $2.77 | $3.07 | ||||
Ord. 2267. Passed 4-24-23.)
(8) Each user connected to the waste water works who is directing storm water runoff into the sanitary sewer and who has been given notice to cease and for which the time for correction has expired, shall pay a monthly surcharge of fifty dollars ($50.00) for each month for a period of three months and thereafter a surcharge of one hundred dollars ($100.00) a month until the condition ceases.
(Ord. 1131. Passed 11-8-99.)
(c) Billing; Procedures for Delinquent Accounts.
(1) Sewer rental fees shall be billed monthly as part of the total utility bill issued by the Utilities Department to persons responsible for paying such bills. The person responsible shall pay said bill on or before the due date indicated on each billing. Payment shall be made to the Utilities Department.
(2) Payments of bills made after indicated due date shall include an additional ten percent (10%) of the amount indicated on the billing as a delinquent penalty.
(3) Whenever any such fees against any property shall be delinquent for six months, the Manager may enter said fees upon the next tax roll as a charge against such premises and shall be collected and the lien thereof enforced. Nothing herein, however, shall be deemed to prevent the Municipality from suing in a court of law to collect the amount due it for sewer rental fees. In addition to the other remedies provided in this section, the Municipality shall have the right to shut off and discontinue the supply of water to any premises for the nonpayment of the sewer rental fees.
(d) New Accounts.
(1) There is hereby established within the Sewer Fund six new accounts. The accounts so established shall be denominated as the holding account, the user account, the capital account, the user reserve account, the capital reserve account, and the replacement account.
(2) All moneys received from sewer rental fees established herein shall be paid into the holding account in the Sewer Fund. From such holding account there shall be paid into the user account in the Sewer Fund the amount representing the user charges so collected in accordance with that charge as established herein and into the capital account the amount representing the capital charge so collected in accordance with that charge as established herein. Investment income on any fund or on account within a fund shall be credited to the fund or account from which the investment is made.
(3) Moneys so paid into the user account shall be used to pay the costs of operation and maintenance of the wastewater treatment works including replacements thereof. The amount paid into the user account shall at all times be sufficient to enable the Municipality to pay such operation and maintenance expenses including replacements.
(4) Moneys so paid into the capital account shall be used to pay into the Tax Capital Improvement Fund those moneys required for payments on outstanding notes and bonds. After making the payment from the capital account to the Tax Capital Improvement Fund required by the immediately preceding sentence, remaining moneys in the capital accounts may be used for other capital expenditures. The amount paid into the capital account shall at all times be sufficient to enable the Municipality to make the required payments into the Tax Capital Improvement Fund.
(5) On December 31 of each year any moneys remaining in the capital account shall be transferred from the capital account and paid into the capital reserve account in the Sewer Fund and any moneys remaining in the user account, after reserving therein an adequate amount necessary for accruing current requirements for operation and maintenance of the system including replacements, shall be transferred from the user account and first paid into the replacement account that portion of the annual user charge earmarked for replacement costs, but not expended during the year. All moneys remaining in the user account shall be paid into the user reserve account. Any moneys on deposit in the replacement account shall be used only for the purpose of meeting replacement costs as defined herein. Any moneys on deposit in the user reserve account shall be used only for transfer to the user account to make up any deficit that may exist in the payment of operation and maintenance expenses. Moneys in the capital reserve account shall be used only for the purpose of paying costs of capital expenditures and to pay the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on any bonds, notes, or other indebtedness heretofore or hereafter issued for the purpose of making capital improvements to the wastewater works, including any payments to the Tax Capital Improvement Fund in the event that moneys in the capital account are insufficient to make the required payments or for payments to retire notes or bonds early.
(e) Appeals Procedure. It is hereby established that all appeals of billings resulting from the adopted sewer rental fee shall proceed as follows:
(1) The party initiating the appeal shall file a written complaint with the Utilities Department at the time the bill in question is paid.
(2) The written complaint shall be acted upon by the Manager or his appointed representative within a reasonable length of time.
(3) If an acceptable solution to the problem cannot be resolved by the Manager, the Manager shall present the complaint to Council. The decision of Council shall be final.
(f) Management of the Wastewater Works.
(1) The wastewater works shall be and remain under the management, supervision, and control of the Manager, who may employ or designate such person or persons in such capacity or capacities as he deems advisable to carry out the efficient management and operation of the system. The Manager or his designated representative may make such rules, orders, or regulations as he deems advisable and necessary to assure the efficient management and operation of the system, and to provide equitable charges for the services thereof; subject, however, to the rights, powers, and duties in respect thereto which are reserved by law to Council.
(2) The Manager shall cause to be maintained and kept proper books of records and accounts in which shall be made full and correct entries of all transactions relating to the wastewater system. Not later than three months after the close of the fiscal year, the Manager shall cause to be prepared a statement, in reasonable detail, showing the cash income and disbursements of the system at the beginning and close of the operating year, and such other information as may be necessary to enable any taxpayer of the Municipality or user of the service furnished to be fully informed as to all matters pertaining to the financial operation of the system during such year.
(3) A budget, showing in detail the estimated costs of operation and maintenance of wastewater works for the next ensuing fiscal year shall be prepared by the Manager at the same time as he is required to prepare the annual village budget, which budget shall be subject to the approval of Council.
(4) A. In addition, the Manager or his appointed representative shall review the sewer rental fees on a biennial basis. Such reviews shall be undertaken to evaluate the total costs of operation, maintenance, and replacement of the wastewater works and the user charge system enforced. During the reviewing process, the Manager shall recommend changes in the user charge system for the following reasons:
1. Maintain the proportionate distribution of operation, maintenance, and replacement cost among users.
2. Generate sufficient revenue to pay the total operation, maintenance, and replacement costs of the wastewater works.
B. Documentation of such a review shall consist of the preparation of a report and its presentation to Council for their actions.
(Ord. 632. Passed 4-26-82.)