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REQUEST FOR CITY COUNCIL AGENDA ITEM <br />Budget <br />Agenda Date Requested: May 11, 2015 <br /> <br />Source of Funds: <br />Requested By: David Mick <br /> <br />Account Number <br />Department: Public Works <br />Amount Budgeted: <br />Report: ___ Resolution: _____ Ordinance: _________ <br /> <br />Amount Requested: <br />Budgeted Item: YES NO <br />Exhibit: Proposed Policy <br />SUMMARY & RECOMMENDATION <br />At City Council’s April 13, 2015 meeting, staff presented several alternatives to the Industrial <br />Waste surcharge as it is applied to restaurants and other Industrial Users (IU’s). City Council <br />selected “Option 2 – fix the Operation and Maintenance (O & M) variable at $0.64/1000 gallons <br />until further notice”. This has the effect of reducing the surcharge for IU’s by 50%. <br />Council also directed staff to continue to monitor IU effluent sample test results for six (6) <br />months and report back to City Council. With Council’s permission, staff would like to increase <br />this timeframe to twelve (12) months. The annual testing results of all IU’s should be available <br />at the conclusion of the 12-month timeframe. And if there is an increase in the IU effluent <br />strength associated with the decreased surcharge rates, this could more realistically take a year to <br />several years to show up in a meaningful way. <br />Staff proposes to implement Option 2 by policy. The Section 74-206 City ordinance text for the <br />O&M variable reads: “O&M = Cost represents operation and maintenance cost of \[the city’s\] <br />wastewater treatment facility. Note: This cost is determined and updated by the City <br />periodically.” The IW ordinance language, which has been approved by the Texas Commission <br />on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), is purposefully written in such a way that the City can <br />administratively determine and update the O&M value without changing the ordinance itself. <br />This is because the TCEQ Executive Director must first approve any change to the city’s <br />industrial waste ordinance before adoption by City Council. Neither the City nor TCEQ benefits <br />from the additional bureaucracy that would be needed to update the O&M factor by ordinance. <br />Action Required by Council: <br />Consider approval or other action of the attached policy fixing the Operation and Maintenance (O <br />& M) variable at $0.64/1000 gallons until further notice. <br />Approved for City Council Agenda <br />Corby D. Alexander, City Manager Date <br /> <br />