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Staff Report for Matter of Protest Ballots Regarding Change in Purpose of Previously Approved Wastewater Rate Increases and Consideration of Ordinance and Code Changes
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RECOMMENDATIONS
Staff recommends that the City Council hold a public hearing and take testimony on the proposed change in purpose and at the conclusion of the public hearing tally the protest votes received. Should the City receive protest ballots from less than 50% of the affected property owners, staff recommends that the City Council take action to implement the change in purpose of previously approved wastewater rate increases, providing a source for reimbursement of rate payers when they have to reconnect their private sewer lateral to a relocated City maintained sewerage main line:
· Pass to print an ordinance to amend the San Leandro Municipal Code Title 3, Chapter 14, Section 3-14-640, Private Sewer Laterals and Sewer Overflows;
· Adopt a resolution to amend San Leandro Administrative Code Title 8, Chapter 11, Financing of Sewer Lateral Connections to City Sewerage System.
BACKGROUND
On June 20, 2011, the City Council determined that the City should pay for reconnecting private sewer laterals in the particular situation where the City determines that it is necessary to relocate a City maintained sewer main. To that end, the City Council directed staff to prepare and implement policies and procedures to legally create a program that would reimburse rate payers affected by this particular City sewerage system activity.
To determine the sewer rate impact from the proposed change in lateral connection policy, staff updated the wastewater rate model with data that included actual bid amounts and financing rates for the treatment plant rehabilitation project. The result showed a capacity for the Water Pollution Control Fund to absorb the potential costs for reimbursing property owners for constructing private sewer laterals to reconnect to a relocated main line.
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