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City Council Agenda Request
December 20, 2022

AGENDA REQUEST NO: V.A.

AGENDA OF: City Council Meeting

INITIATED BY: Georgia Tate, Environmental Manager

PRESENTED BY: Christian Eubanks, Environmental Compliance Coordinator

RESPONSIBLE DEPARTMENT: Environmental and Neighborhood Services
AGENDA CAPTION:

PUBLIC HEARING 5:30 P.M.: Receive and hear all persons desiring to be heard on the schedule of rates to establish and levy drainage charges for the implementation of a Municipal Drainage Utility System.

 

Consideration of and action to adopt the schedule of rates that constitute the Stormwater Compliance Fee that will be levied against all benefitted properties under the Municipal Drainage System created pursuant to Ordinance 2283.

RECOMMENDED ACTION:

Hold a public hearing on the schedule of rates to establish and levy drainage charges associated with the Stormwater Compliance Fee. 

 

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:

The approved city budget for Fiscal Year 2023 includes a Stormwater Compliance Fee. The purpose of the fee is to pay for stormwater related activities, which are part of State and Federal environmental protection requirements. These unfunded mandates require municipalities to implement best management practices to reduce stormwater pollution to the maximum extent practicable. To remain in compliance with these mandates, the Stormwater Compliance Fee will fund pollution prevention measures, community education, drainage system operations and maintenance, and other activities to control the quality of water discharged to the City’s storm drains and waterways.

 

The Stormwater Compliance Fee will provide a sustainable, dedicated revenue source for operating the City's Stormwater Management Program, including the cost for compliance with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System Permit. The Stormwater Compliance Fee will be charged to each benefit property located within the drainage service area and will be calculated by the measured amount of impervious cover. 

 

The Stormwater Compliance Fee, will be effective on January 1, 2023. 

 

Drainage Charges - Stormwater Compliance Fee

 

  1. A drainage charge, known as the Stormwater Compliance Fee, will be charged to each benefited property located within the drainage service area.

  1. The Stormwater Compliance Fee is calculated by the measured amount of impervious area or surface (IA) on the benefited property. 

  1. Benefited properties owned by the City, County, State, School District, or Levee Improvement District are statutorily exempt from paying the Stormwater Compliance Fee.

 

 

Stormwater Compliance Fee Rates.

 

  1. The owner or occupant of any single-family residential lot will be charged a monthly Stormwater Compliance Fee as follows:

 
 
 
 
 
 

Tier
 
 
 
 

Minimum IA SF
 
 
 
 

Maximum IA SF
 
 
 
 

Monthly Fee
 

1
 
 

0
 
 

3,500
 
 

$1.98
 
 

2
 
 

3,501
 
 

4,800
 
 

$2.96
 
 

3
 
 

4,801
 
 
 
 

$4.44
 

  1. The owner or occupant of any place of worship, multi-family or commercial lot will be charged a monthly Stormwater Compliance Fee as follows:Total SF of IA / 4200 X $2.96

 

The Environmental and Neighborhood Services Department recommends that the City Council hold a public hearing to hear all persons interested in the schedule of rates to establish and levy drainage charges for the implementation of a Municipal Drainage Utility System. The Stormwater Compliance Fee will be levied against all benefitted properties subject to charges under the Municipal Drainage Utility Systems Act and as established in Ordinance No. 2283.

BUDGET

EXPENDITURE REQUIRED:  

CURRENT BUDGET:

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