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Clerk 05/20/2020
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AN ORDINANCE relating to rates and charges for sewage treatment and disposal; and amending Ordinance 12353, Section 2, as amended, and K.C.C. 4A.670.100, Ordinance 18745, Section 2, and Ordinance 11398, Section 1, as amended, and K.C.C. 28.84.055.
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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Ordinance 12353, Section 2, as amended, and K.C.C. 4A.670.100 are hereby amended to read as follows:
A. Having determined the monetary requirements for the disposal of sewage, the council hereby adopts a ((2020)) 2021 sewer rate of ((forty-five)) forty-seven dollars and ((thirty-three)) thirty-seven cents per residential customer equivalent per month. Once a sewer rate ordinance becomes effective, the clerk of the council is directed to deliver a copy of that ordinance to each agency having an agreement for sewage disposal with King County.
B. The King County council approves the application of Statement No. 62 of the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB-62) as it pertains to regulatory assets and liabilities to treat pollution remediation obligations and RainWise Program expenditures and strategic planning costs as regulatory assets, recovered ratably over the life of the underlying financing, and establish a rate stabilization reserve for the purpose of leveling rates between years.
C. As required for GASB-62 application, amounts are to be placed in the rate stabilization reserve from operating revenues and removed from the calculation of debt service coverage. The reserve balance shall be an amount at least sufficient to maintain a level sewer rate between ((2019)) 2021 and ((2020)) 2022, and shall be used solely for the purposes of: maintaining the level sewer rate in ((2020)) 2021; and if additional reserve balance is available, moderating future rate increases beyond ((2020)) 2021. The estimated amount of the reserve, as shown in the financial forecast, Attachment A to ((Ordinance 18915)) this ordi...

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