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Memo
City Manager's Office
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TO: Mayor and City Council
FROM: Bob Kindred, Assistant City Manager
DATE: April 10, 2009
SUBJECT: Storm Water Rate Increase
Attached is an ordinance codifying the $.40 rate increase included in your adopted 2009-10
Budget for our Storm Water Utility. Approving this ordinance will increase the monthly bill
from $2.60 to $3.00 for each utility customer account.
As was discussed during your annual budget deliberations, this increase is needed in order to
maintain the solvency of our Storm Water Fund as we fulfill the EPA's Phase II Storm Water
Regulations and become more active in education, public relations, capital improvements and
regulation of storm water quality.
Staff is aware that the Council would like to consider an alternate methodology for assigning
costs, perhaps with a fee based on the amount of impervious land on a lot. It is our hope that
new aerial maps will enable us to evaluate this new methodology during 2009-10.
Encl.