(A) All property located in Frankfort Township, Will County, either within the corporate limits of the village, or otherwise connected to the village’s wastewater collection systems is subject to a wastewater or sewer treatment charge for treatment and disposal of sewerage wastes (also known as “water reclamation”).
(C) The amount of the wastewater treatment charges provided under this section shall be presented separately on the utility bill from any other charges contained therein.
(D) Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Chicago Service Area.
(1) For that portion of the village which lies within Frankfort Township, Will County and within the wastewater service area under an agreement between the village and the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (formerly the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chicago, hereinafter “MWRD”), an amount shall be charged for wastewater treatment services and computed under the formula provided within the agreement as follows:
(a) The most currently available equalized assessed valuation for the property at the time the utility bill is being rendered shall be multiplied by the most recent available real estate tax rate of the MWRD for property within its district boundaries (primarily in Cook County) and the result thereof shall be multiplied by 140% to obtain the annual wastewater treatment charge for such property.
(b) This amount shall be divided by 12, and the applicable number of months corresponding to the utility billing cycle shall be added to each utility bill rendered, (e.g., if a bi-monthly billing cycle is used, two months shall be added; if a quarterly billing cycle is used, three months shall be added.)
(c) Each year, as a new equalized assessed valuation becomes available for the subject property and a new tax rate becomes available for the MWRD, the amount of such user charge shall be recomputed utilizing such new equalized assessed valuation and tax rate and shall apply to the subsequent utility bills rendered.
(d) If the sewer treatment fee computed for one sewer treatment service year under the agreement has not been wholly recouped from the property prior to the computation of the next sewer treatment service year, the remaining sewer treatment service fee will be added to the next available billing period in addition to the pro-rata share of the new year’s sewer treatment service fee.
(2) This sewer treatment charge is applicable to all properties which lie within the corporate limits of the Village in Frankfort Township, Will County and within the designated wastewater service area under an agreement between the village and the MWRD regardless of whether the property is vacant land or otherwise developed in any manner (i.e., if the property is subject to a property tax bill, the property is also subject to the sewer treatment charge under this section).
(3) From time to time, a property owner may have had cause to appeal the valuation of property for property tax purposes, or have a property tax billing error corrected that affects the property’s equalized assessed valuation for a tax year, and which may have resulted in the recalculation of the related annual property tax bill. Should a property valuation (equalized assessed valuation) for a given tax year be reduced, the village utility customer may be eligible for a reduction in the related sewer treatment charge which is based on the equalized assessed valuation.
(a) The recalculation of an annual sewer treatment charge under this section due to a subsequent adjustment to equalized assessed valuation will not occur automatically as the village is not notified of such changes as they occur. It is solely the property owner’s responsibility to notify the village of such changes to initiate the recalculation of the annual sewer treatment charges.
(b) The property owner must provide the village with valid and legible documentation of the revised or adjusted equalized assessed valuation. Upon verification and validation of the information provided, the calculation of the revised annual sewer treatment charges based on that tax year’s adjusted equalized assessed valuation can be performed.
(c) Any such adjustment reducing the sewer treatment charge will be provided as a credit against the current and/or future utility bills.
(E) Village of Frankfort Service Area.
(1) This sewer treatment charge is applicable to all properties which lie within Frankfort Township, Will County and within the wastewater Facility Planning Area of the Village of Frankfort (hereinafter “Frankfort”).
(2) Under an agreement between the Village and Frankfort, an amount shall be charged for wastewater treatment services and computed as follows:
The amount of water consumption billed under § 50.023C times the Village of Frankfort basic user charge rate per 1,000 gallons in effect on the date the bill is being rendered.
(F) Illinois-American Water Company Service Area.
(1) This sewer treatment charge is applicable to all properties which lie within Frankfort Township, Will County and within the wastewater Facility Planning Area of the Illinois-American Water Company (formerly known as Citizens Utilities Company of Illinois, hereinafter “IAW”).
(2) For that portion of the village which lies within Frankfort Township, Will County and within the wastewater service area under an agreement between the village and IAW, an amount shall be charged for wastewater treatment services and computed as follows:
(a) The difference between the IAW “Collection and Treatment Service” and “Collection Service” rates from the most recent tariff rate schedule approved by the Illinois Commerce Commission then in effect during the billing period shall be used to compute the wastewater treatment charges.
(b) It is recognized and acknowledged that the terms “Collection and Treatment Service” and “Collection Service” may change from time to time in relation to the IAW tariff schedules. These terms shall also cover such other terminology that may be used to distinguish between the charges applicable to sewer collection and sewer treatment such that the charges applicable to sewer treatment alone can be separately determined.
(c) Such charges may include both fixed and volumetric (consumption) based rates as may be included in the Illinois Commerce Commission approved tariff schedules in effect during the village billing period. The current IAW rate structure of the tariff schedules is based on monthly billing. The computation of the applicable wastewater treatment charges herein shall be adjusted to correspond with the village billing cycle in effect when the utility bill is rendered.
(Ord. 2009-O-072, passed 12-15-09; Am. Ord. 2023-O-056, passed 10-3-23)