(a) It is hereby determined necessary for the protection of public health, safety, and welfare that a system of charges for Utility service be established which justly and equitably allocates the cost of providing the services of the Utility to each residential and commercial property. The Storm Water Management Service Charges provided for in this Chapter are deemed reasonable and necessary to pay the costs of the Utility's Stormwater Management Programs for the operation, maintenance, repair and replacement of the capital facilities of the Village's Stormwater Drainage System, for the planning, design, acquisition, construction, reconstruction, improvement, and extension of capital facilities of that System, to provide for the payment of debt service on obligations incurred and anticipated to be incurred for capital facilities of that System and to maintain adequate fund reserves to provide for reasonable expected variations in the collection of Service Charges, in the cost of providing services, and in the demand for services.
(b) There is hereby levied and imposed upon all residential and commercial properties within the Village of Russells Point a just and equitable Storm Water Management Service Charge for storm drainage service, or subsequent service, construction, reconstruction, maintenance, operation, and extension and a Storm Water Management Enterprise Fund is established for the foregoing purposes.
(c) Fees and charges shall be collected with the monthly water bill of water users or billed alone as a storm water drainage charge for those users not charged for Village water. In the event the owner and non-owner users of a particular property are not the same, the liability for each the owner and non-owner user for the Storm Water Management Service charge attributable to that Commercial or Residential Property shall be joint and several.
(d) Payments for the storm water management service charge shall be made to the Village with one payment method for both the water service charge and the stormwater management service charge, provided that payments made with a monthly water bill shall be credited to the storm water management service charge first, while the remainder of the payment shall be applied to the balance due for water service.
(e) Said charges shall be paid monthly by those liable therefore, and placed in a storm water management fund to be used only for the purposes provided in this chapter.
(f) It is hereby determined that a property in the Village is furnished service as determined by the Board of Public Affairs and by use classification as established by the Village Council to calculate charges. The Village Council hereby establishes the following property use classifications to calculate charges:
(1) Residential property;
(2) Commercial property.
(g) Rates set after June 1, 2016 shall be set by Resolution passed by the Board of Public Affairs and shall be listed in the Municipality Utility Rates, Fees and Charges.
(Ord. 16-1133. Passed 4-18-16; Ord. 20-1182. Passed 10-19-20.)