(1) Fee base.
(a) All applicants for connection to the sewer system which seek to connect to the system where a Sewer District, Sewer Extension District, or combined Sewer and Water District have been created and whose property shall not have been charged by way of special assessments for said sewer service, shall pay, in addition to the deposit required by the code, a sewer connection fee to the City Treasurer, which sewer connection fee shall be based upon the following formula:
(b) The City Engineer shall prepare an estimate of the cost of an installed eight (8) inch sewer main. In addition to the estimated cost of the eight (8) inch main, the City Engineer shall add a factor to cover engineering fees, bonding fees, legal fees, and other miscellaneous expenses. Based on these estimates, the City Engineer shall then calculate a "per linear foot" estimated cost of the sewer main. The per linear foot cost shall be recalculated annually and be kept on file in the City Clerk's office.
(2) Application of fee base. The sewer connection fee shall be calculated by multiplying the number of linear feet of frontage of the applicant's lot parallel to the sewer line times the Engineer's estimate of the per linear foot sewer line cost.
(3) Alternate fee application. In cases where irregular lot configuration lends front footage connection calculations to be inequitable, the City Engineer, with approval of City Council, may use one of the following alternate methods of applying the fee base.
(a) The fee base may be applied prorata to the number of properties benefitted.
(b) The fee base may be applied on a square footage of benefitted properties basis or by a combination of square footage and front footage.
(4) No connection fee shall prohibit the Council from negotiating and entering into a developer subdivision agreement which may specify fees, assessments and other subsequent charges.
(5) Sewer connection fee is non-exclusive. Payment of a sewer connection fee under this section does not exclude the applicant from the responsibility of sewer connection-capital facilities fees which intent is to offset costs of treatment plants and supporting structures necessary to provide sewer service to the property.
(6) No connection shall be made to the sewer system until such deposit and appropriate sewer connection fees shall have been paid in full to the City Treasurer.
(7) The City Treasurer shall apply all fees collected to the City Sewer Fund. (Ref. 18-503 RS Neb) (Ord. No. 701, 2/21/06)