Enclosed is an Ordinance for consideration by the City Council to Adjust Wastewater Rates and include Quarterly Reduction Requirements for Discounted Utility Service for Income Eligible Seniors and Disabled Persons.

Section 1. and 2. of the Ordinance include Staff recommendations for the proposed Wastewater Rate Increase to go into effect on May 1, 2019.  Please refer to the separate memo, dated February 19, 2019, summarizing our assumptions and calculations supporting the proposed wastewater rate increase.

Section 3. of the Ordinance reinstates the quarterly reduction requirements for income eligible seniors and disabled persons requesting a reduction of their utility bill.  These quarterly reduction requirements were previously approved by the City Council in 2014 per Ordinance No. 3830.  For various reasons, this section was inadvertently left out of the 2014 Chapter 17 City Code revision.  Section 3. of the Ordinance is intended to clean-up this oversight.  City Staff recently had a utility customer request the quarterly reduction.