File #: 2012-0144    Version:
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 5/14/2012 In control: Budget and Fiscal Management Committee
On agenda: 6/11/2012 Final action: 6/11/2012
Enactment date: 6/15/2012 Enactment #: 17343
Title: AN ORDINANCE determining the monetary requirements for the disposal of sewage for the fiscal year beginning January 1, 2013, and ending December 31, 2013, setting the sewer rate for the fiscal year beginning January 1, 2013, and ending December 31, 2013, and approving the amount of the sewage treatment capacity charge for 2013, in accordance with RCW 35.58.570; and amending Ordinance 12353, Section 2, as amended, and K.C.C. 4A.--.---, and Ordinance 11398, Section 1, as amended, and K.C.C. 28.84.055.
Sponsors: Joe McDermott
Indexes: Sewage
Code sections: 28.84.055 -
Attachments: 1. Ordinance 17343.pdf, 2. A. Wastewater Treatment Division Financial Plan for the 2013 Amended Proposed Sewer Rate, Revised June 5, 2012, 3. 2012-0144 transmittal letter, 4. 2012-0144 Attachment to Transmittal Letter--2012 Monthly Sewer Rate and Capacity Charge Proposal, 5. 2012-0144 Attachment to Transmittal Letter-- MWPAAC Letter--April 4, 2012, 6. 2012-0144 fiscal note, 7. 05-15-12 Staff Report with attachments, 8. 2012-0144 hearing notice.doc, 9. 2012-0144 Affidavit of Publication.pdf, 10. 06-05-12 Staff Report with attachments, 11. A. Wastewater Treatment Division Plan for the 2013 Proposed Sewer Rate, 12. Revised Staff Report, 13. A. Financial Plan for 2013 Amended Proposed Sewer Rate, Revised June 11, 2012, 14. Amendment 1.pdf
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AN ORDINANCE determining the monetary requirements for the disposal of sewage for the fiscal year beginning January 1, 2013, and ending December 31, 2013, setting the sewer rate for the fiscal year beginning January 1, 2013, and ending December 31, 2013, and approving the amount of the sewage treatment capacity charge for 2013, in accordance with RCW 35.58.570; and amending Ordinance 12353, Section 2, as amended, and K.C.C. 4A.--.---, 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.--.--- are each hereby amended to read as follows:
A. Having determined the monetary requirements for the disposal of sewage, the council hereby adopts a ((2012)) 2013 sewer rate of ((thirty-six dollars and ten)) thirty-nine dollars and seventy-nine 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 of Financial Accounting Standards No. 71 (FAS 71) to treat pollution remediation obligations as regulatory assets, and establish a rate stabilization reserve for the purpose of leveling rates between years.
C. As required for FAS 71 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 ((2011 and 2012)) 2013 and 2014, and shall be used solely for the purposes of: maintaining the level sewer rate in ((2012)) 2014; and if additional reserve balance is available, moderating future rate increases beyond ((2012)) 2014. The estimated amount of the reserve, as shown in the financial forecast, Atta...

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