All commercial and industrial users are billed on a quarterly basis, retroactively, for sewer services rendered by the village, upon the basis of actual volume of sanitary sewage disposed of in the next preceding quarter by each such user. Because the operational costs upon which the user rates are determined are calculated upon the basis of the next prior year’s experience, both in general and with respect to a particular commercial or industrial user, as to the types and strength of waste disposed of into the village wastewater collection system, the village reserves the right at the end of each calendar year to retroactively assess commercial and industrial users with the actual cost of treating and disposing of their sanitary sewage so as to avoid having to build those excess costs into the General Sewer Service Metered Rate, Smg-1 for the forthcoming calendar year. This process is necessitated because of one or both of the following two factors.
(a) In the case of a new commercial or industrial user for whom there was no experience during the preceding calendar year, the potential for inaccuracy in estimating the types and strength of the waste that it actually disposes of.
(b) Expansion of an existing commercial or industrial user’s operations during the course of a calendar year, the estimates pertaining to which are inaccurate, and understate either the types or strength of sanitary sewage disposed of. In the case of a commercial or industrial user whose types or strength of sanitary sewage are lower during the current year, on the basis of such a year-end calculation, a credit shall be afforded to it against the next year’s quarterly statements.
(Ord. passed 1-21-2013)