Loading...
(a) A seven hundred and fifty dollar ($750) Pre-Annexation and Development Agreement ("PADA") application fee will be assessed for each application for water service to parcels outside the City limits. The fee will be assessed per Pima County Tax Parcel Number, and will not be assessed for parcels deemed ineligible for water service under the City of Tucson's Water Service Policy.
(b) A one thousand dollar ($1,000) Pre- Annexation and Development Agreement ("PADA") fee per Equivalent Dwelling Unit (EDU) will be assessed for each application for water service to parcels outside the City Limits. The fee will be assessed per Pima County Tax Parcel Number and will be assessed for each water meter obtained after a parcel has paid its application fee under Section 27-53 (1) and has completed all requisite plan submittals and obtained approvals for water service.
(Ord. No. 11812, § 1, 1-20-21; Ord. No. 11831, § 1, 4-20-21)
Editor’s note – Section 2 of Ord. No. 11812, adopted January 20, 2021, and section 2 of Ord. No. 11831, adopted April 20, 2021, provide that the PADA application fee shall take effect on or after July 1, 2021.
The city may impose a reasonable charge to handle the processing of checks received as payment for charges referenced in any article of chapter 27, which checks are returned for nonpayment for any reason. Should such check or bank draft be received for a delinquent balance in excess of seventy-five dollars ($75.00), whose balance (1) has been outstanding for forty (40) days or more, and (2) is either not being formally disputed in accordance with section 27-50(2) or the hearing officer under section 27-50(2) has found in favor of the water utility, the customer's service may be turned off and the meter locked without prior notification.
(Ord. No. 9043, § 6, 4-13-98; Ord. No. 9388, § 1, 5-22-00; Ord. No. 10305, § 1, 7-6-06, eff. 8-7-06)
Monies collected pursuant to this section will be managed by the City of Tucson Water Department for funding green stormwater infrastructure projects within the City of Tucson.
2020: $0.13 per Ccf of water usage (748 gallons)
2021: $0.13 per Ccf of water usage (748 gallons)
2022: $0.13 per Ccf of water usage (748 gallons)
(Ord. No. 11726, § 1, 2-4-20)
ARTICLE III.
CITIZENS' WATER ADVISORY COMMITTEE*
CITIZENS' WATER ADVISORY COMMITTEE*
__________
__________
The functions, purposes, powers and duties of the committee shall be to:
(a) Act as the official advisory body on water capital improvement program planning and rate structure formulation to city government;
(b) Annually review the proposed water system capital improvement program, and recommend to the governing body an annual and a six-year capital budget;
(c) Annually review the water revenue requirements of the water system and recommend to the governing body rate adjustments as required; promote the concerns of Tucson Water customers by ensuring that recommended water rate adjustments are kept to the absolute minimum necessary, consistent with adopted mayor and council plans and policies; and ensure that the water system delivers safe, high-quality water to all its customers.
(d) Review and report to the governing body on the long-term (twenty (20) to thirty (30) years) water source and capital needs of the water system, utilizing staff of the water utility and other sources for the information necessary for such review;
(e) Consult with the governing body from time-to-time as may be required by the mayor and council relative to water resource development needs;
(f) Annually review the "Tucson Water Resources Plan 1990--2100" and recommend revisions thereto to the governing body as required;
(g) Initiate comprehensive revision of the "Tucson Water Resources Plan 1990-- 2100" at five-year intervals or more frequently as required and recommend the necessary changes thereto to the governing body.
(h) Review or make recommendations on policies affecting those water issues which the committee deems appropriate.
(Ord. No. 4638, § 1, 4-25-77; Ord. No. 7279, § 1, 9-11-89; Ord. No. 8183, §§ 1, 2, 2-7-94; Ord. No. 8262, § 1, 4-25-94)
(a) Appointment. The citizens' water advisory committee shall be composed of fifteen (15) members who shall be customers of the Tucson Water utility, as either a residential user or owning an enterprise using Tucson Water, and shall serve without compensation.
(b) Selection process. The mayor and each council member shall appoint one (1) member of the committee. The city manager, utilizing the resources of his office, shall nominate eight (8) members for final approval by the mayor and council.
It is suggested that appointed members have professional or technical competence in one of the following areas:
(1) Utility rate making;
(2) Water resource planning;
(3) Business management;
(4) Accounting;
(5) Financial analysis;
(6) Public health;
(7) Water system engineering;
(8) Resource economics;
(9) Hydrology;
(10) Landscape architecture;
(11) Water law.
(c) Terms. The term of those committee members appointed by the mayor and council shall be coterminous with that of the appointing elected official. The term of those committee members nominated by the city manager and appointed by the mayor and council shall be four (4) years, or shall be coterminous with the term of the nominating city manager, whichever is less.
(d) The director of the water department and the director of the Pima County Regional Wastewater Reclamation Department shall serve as non-voting, ex officio, advisory members of the committee, who do not count toward the quorum, but may fully participate in all committee and subcommittee discussions. As used in this subsection, "director" means the director or the director's designee.
(Ord. No. 4638, § 1, 4-25-77; Ord. No. 7261, § 1, 8-7-89; Ord. No. 9172, § 1, 12-7-98; Ord. No. 10379, § 1, 3-20-07; Ord. No. 10606, § 1, 11-25-08)
Loading...