HomeMy WebLinkAboutordinance.council.025-85 ORDINANCE NO.~_~_
(SERIES OF 1985)
AN ORDINA~CE AMENDING DIVISION 3 OF ARTICILE III OF CHAPTER
23 OF THE MUNICIPAL CODE OF THE CITY OF ASPEN. COLORADO, ENTITLED
"WATER RATE AND CHARGES" (THEREBY AMENDI}~ ORDINANCE NO 18-1984)
BY INCREASING CERTAIN WATER RATES AMD CHARGES.
WHEREAS, the City Council finds it necessary to improve the
existing water transmission system; and
WHEREAS, the City has issued 9 million dollars of General
Oblication Utility Bonds; and
WHEREAS, the City Council desires that the cost of the debt
service for these uttltiy improvements be paid for by the water
customers rather than out of the General Fund; and
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF ASPEN, COLORADO=
That Division 3 of Article III of Chapter 23 of the Municipal
Code of the City of Aspen, Colorado, (and by implication, Ordinance
No, 18-7984 No. 3-1983 and Ordinance NO. 36-1981) and hereby is
amended to read as follows:
A. That Section 23-101(a) is hereby amended to read as
follows:
"(a) The residential, multiple family and commercial flat
in-city rate shall be computed on a point basis according to the
following schedule; and for each point determined by fixture
count there shall be charged ($1.06) per-month, provided, however.
that in no event shall there be billed less than ($16.10) per
month for any flat rate service given."
B. That section 23-102[a) is hereby amended to read as
follows:
"(a) Residential (single-family and duplex only). For
in-city residential water users where a metering device has been
installed, is operative and readily accessible, the rate of charge
and/or monthly charge, or any fraction thereof, shall be computed
in accordance with the following table:
Gallons Monthly Charge
3/4 inch 5,000 $ 9.67
1 inch 10,000 17.40
I 1/2 inch 20,000 30.60
2 inch 40,000 59.27
Each additional 1,000 gallons over the minimum = $1. D6
C. That Section 23-102(b) is hereby amended to read as
follows
'(b) Commercial and multiple family (all other metered
water users except residential single and two family units). For
commercial and multiple family in-city users where a mete:ring
device has been installed, is operative and readily accessib~e~;~-
the rate of charge and/or monthly charge or any fraction thereof,
shall be computed in accordance with the following table:
Meter Size ~_a_~ Monthly__Charge
(Min[~!u~) ~
3/4 inch 5.000 $ 10.64
i inch 10,000 19.33
1 1/2 inch 20,000 33.51
2 inch 40,000 64.42
3 inch 90.000 142.04
4 inch 150~000 231.91
6 inch 300,000 450.95
Each additional 1.000 gallons over the minimum = $1.21.
D. That Section 23-107 is hereby amended to read as follows:
"A service charge of twenty-four dollars ($24.00) is
hereby est'ablished for each turn-on and each shut-off of water
service howsoever occuring."
Section 2
The water rates and charges contained in Section I of this
ordiance shall become effective as of May 15, 1985.
Secti0p 3
If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or
portion of this ordiance is for any reason held invalid or
unconstitutional by any court of competent jurisdiction, such
portion shall be deemed a separate, distinct and independent
provision and such hold,nE shall not affect the *valtdity of the
remaining portions thereof.
A public hearing on the ordinance shall be held on the
/6~ay of ~ , 1985. at 5:00 p.m. in the City
Council Chambers, Aspen City Hall, 130 South Galena Street,
Aspen, Colorado.
INTRODUCED, READ AND ORDERED published as providedby law by
the City Council of the City of Aspen, Colorado, at its regular
meeting held ~1~ / ~ ,,, , 1984o
William Stifling, Mayor '
ATTEST :'
Y, adopted, passed and approved on the /~-~day of
'~'"'" , 1985.
w 'll am stifling. Ma½or
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STATE OF COLORADO CERTIFI~TE
COUN~ OF PITKIN
I, Kathryn S. Koch, City Clerk of Aspen, Colorado, do hereby
certify that the above and foregoing ordinance was introduced,
read in full, and passed on first reading at a regular meeting of
the City Council of the City of Aspen on / ~ .,
1985, and published in the Aspen Times, a weekly newspaper of
general circu%ation published in the Ci~ of Aspen,Colorado, in
its issue of /~W// /~ 1985, and was finally
adopted and approved at a regular meeting of the City Council on
, 1985, and ordered published as
Ordinance No. ~__~_, Series of 1985, of said City as provided
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set ~ hand and the seal
of said City of Aspen, Colorado this =~ day of
1985.
Kathryn S. ~ch, City Clerk
Deputy City Clerk