[Ord. No. 476[1] Art. I, 12-11-2012]
It is determined and declared to be necessary and conducive
to the protection of the public safety, welfare, and convenience of
the Village of Country Club, Missouri for the Village of Country Club
to collect rates, fees and charges from all users who contribute wastewater
to the Village of Country Club wastewater treatment facility. The
proceeds of such charges so derived will be used for the purpose of
operating and maintaining the system; paying the principal and interest
of all revenue obligations of the Village now outstanding or hereafter
issued or incurred; and providing funds sufficient to meet the requirements
of the Village to treat wastewater, including replacement of the system.
[1]
Editor’s Note: This ordinance also superseded Ord. No. 419, adopted 6-3-2008, which ordinance established and imposed a monthly surcharge on all Village residents who are connected to and make use of the Village sewer and wastewater system. See Section 700.130(D).
[Ord. No. 476 Art.
II, 12-11-2012]
A.
BOD (denoting biochemical oxygen demand)
NORMAL DOMESTIC WASTEWATER
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE
REPLACEMENT
RESIDENTIAL CONTRIBUTOR
SS (denoting suspended solids)
SYSTEM
TREATMENT FACILITY
USEFUL LIFE
USER CHARGE
The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this Article,
shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this Section, except where
the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five (5)
days at twenty degrees Celsius (20°C), expressed in milligrams
per liter (mg/l).
Wastewater that has a BOD concentration of not more than
two hundred sixty-five (265) mg/l and a suspended solids concentration
of not more than three hundred fifteen (315) mg/l.
All expenditures during the useful life treatment works for
materials, labor, utilities, and other items which are necessary for
managing and maintaining the treatment plant to achieve the capacity
and performance for which such plant was designed and constructed.
Expenditures for obtaining and installing equipment, accessories,
or appurtenances which are necessary during the useful life of the
treatment works to maintain the capacity and performance for which
such works were designed and constructed. The term "operation and
maintenance" includes replacement.
Any contributor to the Village of Country Club wastewater
treatment plant whose lot, parcel of real estate, or building is used
for domestic dwelling purposes only.
The solids that either float on the surface of or in suspension
in water, sewage, or other liquids and which are removable by laboratory
filtering.
The sewer system of the Village, consisting of all properties
and assets, real and personal, and tangible and intangible, of the
Village, now or hereafter existing, which are held for the purpose
of collecting and treating sewage, including, but not limited to,
the Village's wastewater facilities and all collection lines and equipment
connected therewith.
Any devices and systems for the storage, treatment, recycling,
and reclamation of municipal wastewater, domestic wastewater, or liquid
industrial wastes. These include interceptor sewers, outfall sewers,
sewage collection systems, individual systems, pumping, power, and
other equipment and their appurtenances; extensions, improvements,
remodeling, additions, and alterations thereof; elements essential
to provide a reliable recycled supply such as standby treatment units
and clear well facilities; and any works including site acquisition
of land that will be an integral part of the treatment process or
is used for ultimate disposal of residues resulting from such treatment,
including land for composting sludge, temporary storage of such compost,
and land used for storage of treated wastewater in land treatment
systems before land application; or any other method or system for
preventing, abating, reducing, storing, treating, separating, or disposing
of municipal waste or Industrial waste, including waste in sanitary
sewer systems.
The estimated period during which the wastewater facility
will be operated.
That portion of the total wastewater service charge which
is levied in a proportional and adequate manner for the cost of operation,
maintenance, and replacement of the wastewater treatment facility.
B.
"Shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
[Ord. No. 476 Art.
III, 12-11-2012]
A.
The user charge system shall generate adequate annual revenues to
pay the costs of annual operation and maintenance, including replacement,
and costs associated with debt retirement of capital associated with
financing the wastewater treatment plant. That portion of the total
user charge which is designated for operation and maintenance including
replacement of the wastewater treatment plant shall be established
by this Article.
B.
That portion of the total user charge collected which is designated
for the operation and maintenance, including replacement purposes
as established in this Article, shall be deposited in a separate non-lapsing
fund known as the "Operation, Maintenance, and Replacement Fund" and
will be kept in two (2) primary accounts as follows:
1.
The operation and maintenance account shall be an account designed
for the specific purpose of defraying operation and maintenance costs,
excluding replacement of the wastewater treatment facility.
2.
The replacement account shall be an account designed for the
purpose of ensuring replacement needs over the useful life of the
wastewater treatment facility. Deposits in the replacement account
shall be made monthly in an amount to be determined by the Board of
Trustees following consultation with Village engineers and financing
consultants.
C.
Fiscal year-end balances in the operation and maintenance account
and the replacement account shall be carried over to the same accounts
in each subsequent fiscal year, and shall be used for no other purposes
than those designated for these accounts. Monies which have been transferred
from other sources to meet temporary shortages in the Operation, Maintenance,
and Replacement Fund shall be returned to their respective accounts
upon appropriate adjustment of the charge rates for operation, maintenance,
and replacement. The user charge rate(s) shall be adjusted such that
the transferred monies will be returned to their respective accounts
within the fiscal year following the fiscal year in which the monies
were borrowed.
[Ord. No. 476 Art.
IV, 12-11-2012]
A.
This Section will set the rates to be charged to users for collection
and treatment of sewage. Each user shall pay for the sewage collection
and treatment services provided by the Village, based on use of the
system as determined by water meters acceptable to the Village.
B.
The user charge for each contributor will be based on water used
during the current month. If a commercial or industrial contributor
has a consumptive use of water, or in some manner uses water which
is not returned to the wastewater collection system, the user charge
may be based on a wastewater meter or separate water meter installed
and maintained at the contributor's expense, and in a manner acceptable
to the Village of Country Club.
C.
The base rate charge per month shall be fifty dollars ($50.00) for
each contributor. In addition, each contributor shall pay a user charge
for operation and maintenance, including replacement, of sixteen dollars
ninety-seven cents ($16.97) per thousand gallons of water or twelve
dollars seventy-four cents ($12.74) per one hundred (100) cubic feet
of water.
[Ord. No. 482 §1, 5-14-2013; Ord.
No. 539, 10-13-2015; Ord. No. 577, 11-1-2018]
D.
User Charge Fee.
[Ord. No. 519, 12-9-2014]
1.
The established monthly charge of ten dollars ($10.00) per household
user of the Village of Country Club Sewer System shall be for the
sole purpose of establishing a separate sewer maintenance and operation
fund to be maintained by the Village Clerk for the maintenance, operation
and repair of said sewer system or any cost connected said system.
2.
The billing for the above established monthly charge will be provided
by the City of St. Joseph for a fee established by contract with the
City of St. Joseph. Or, in the event the City of St. Joseph fails
to bill for the monthly surcharge for any reason, then the Village
Clerk will bill the residents.
3.
In the event the charges for monthly sewerage maintenance service
are not paid within thirty (30) days after rendition of the bill for
such service such charges shall be deemed and are declared to be delinquent
and thereafter such delinquency shall constitute a lien upon the real
estate for which such service is supplied, and the Village Clerk be
and is hereby authorized and directed to file sworn statements showing
such delinquencies in the office of the recorder of deeds of Andrew
County, and the filing of such statements shall be deemed notice of
the lien of such charges for such service.
4.
That all sewerage services shall be discontinued without further
notice if the charges for this monthly maintenance surcharge are not
paid within sixty (60) days after rendition of the bill therefore.
5.
The charges herein established shall be collected from the owners,
occupants and users of the premises within said Village from and after
the effective date of this Section.
E.
Any user which discharges any toxic pollutants which cause an increase
in the cost of managing the effluent or the sludge from the Village
Wastewater Treatment Facility, or any user which discharges any substance
which singly or by interaction with other substances causes identifiable
increases in the cost of operation, maintenance, or replacement of
the wastewater treatment facility shall pay for such increased costs.
The charge to each such user will be as determined by the responsible
plant operating personnel and approved by the Village Board of Trustees.
F.
The residential service charge shall be based upon the quantity of water used during the winter quarters as measured by water meters read during January, February, and March each year. The amount so computed, in addition to the minimum charge as specified in Subsection (c) of this Section shall be the monthly charge for the ensuing year.
[Ord. No. 482 §2, 5-14-2013]
G.
In the case of a change of occupancy of premises served under the
residential rate, the sewer service charge shall be prorated by the
number days in service.
[Ord. No. 486 §1, 9-10-2013]
[Ord. No. 476 Art.
V, 12-11-2012]
A.
All users will be billed monthly. Billings for each month shall be
made within thirty (30) days after the end of that month. Payments
are due within fifteen (15) days of when billings are made. Any payment
not received within thirty (30) days after the billing is made shall
be delinquent.
B.
A late payment penalty of ten percent (10%) of the user charge bill
will be added to each delinquent bill for each thirty (30) days of
delinquency.
C.
Billing for the user rates and charges will be handled administratively
by the City of St. Joseph, by ordinance previously enacted and by
agreement with the City of St. Joseph. By separate agreement with
Missouri-American Water Company, the Village of Country Club has the
power and authority to cause the water service of contributors to
the wastewater facility to be terminated for failure to pay wastewater
user charges for a period of delinquency exceeding ninety (90) days,
and the Village of Country Club will exercise such power and authority.
[Ord. No. 476 Art.
VI, 12-11-2012]
A.
The Board of Trustees of the Village of Country Club shall review
the user charge system at least annually and revise user charges as
necessary to ensure that the system generates adequate revenues to
pay the costs of operation and maintenance, including replacement,
and that the system continues to provide for the proportional distribution
of operation and maintenance, including replacement, costs among users.
The factors the Board of Trustees will consider in setting the annual
rates will include, but not be limited to, the rates that the Village
pays for power sources to power the wastewater treatment facility,
inflation costs, costs of personnel, unforeseen maintenance costs,
and any other reasonable cost associated with the direct cost of operation
and maintenance, including replacement of the wastewater treatment
facility.
B.
The Board of Trustees will notify each user at least annually, in
conjunction with a regular bill, of the rate being charged for operation
and maintenance, including replacement, of the wastewater treatment
facility.
[Ord. No. 476 Part
2, 12-11-2012]
The provisions of this Article shall be applicable to all service
provided or incurred on or after the wastewater treatment facility
goes on-line and becomes operational.
