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ORDINANCE No. 15 D
ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF BURLINGAME
AMENDING CHAPTER 15.08
ESTABLISHING WASTEWATER COLLECTION
RATES AND CHARGES
The CITY COUNCIL of the CITY OF BURLINGAME does
hereby ordain as follows:
Section 1. Section 15.08.070 ofthe Burlingame Municipal Code is hereby amended
to read as follows:
"15.08.070 Sewer rental—Service charges.
Every person whose premises in the city are served by a connection with the system of
sewerage of the city, whereby the sewerage or industrial wastes, or either or both, are disposed by
the city, shall pay a bimonthly sewer charge based upon the quantity of metered water per bimonthly
billing period as set forth in the following rate schedule, whether such water is derived from a
source other than city water supply or all or part of such water is furnished to the premises without
charge. The director of public works shall determine the classification of uses not specifically listed.
The finance director shall have the discretion and authority to establish a different sewer charge
when circumstances such as water leaks or unseasonable or atypical water usage cause established
rates to result in inequitably low or high sewer charges; any such determination shall be reviewed
by the city manager upon request from the customer.
Classification
(1) Single-family/duplex
(2) Multi -family residential
Amount
$229 per thousand gallons of average
water consumption for the billing periods
January through April of the years 1995,
1996, and 1997.
$2.91 per thousand gallons of water
consumption for the current billing
period.
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(3) Restaurant, caterers, supermarkets, bakeries
and other commercial food processing and
food -related commercial
(4) Moderate strength commercial, including
manufacturing, commercial or industrial laundries,
hotels with restaurants and hospitals
(5) Light strength commercial including
office -warehouse, office buildings, cocktail
lounges, auto -related, carwash, laundromats,
convalescent homes and hotels without
restaurants
(6) Institutional (schools and churches)
$8.15 per thousand gallons of water
consumption for the current billing
period.
$6.18 per thousand gallons of water
consumption for the current billing
period.
$4.24 per thousand gallons of water
consumption for the current billing
period.
$.86 per thousand gallons of water
consumption for the current billing
period."
Section 2. The schedule of rates shall be effective for all billings on and after
September 4, 1997.
Section 3. The City Council finds that the rates adopted by this ordinance are not
discriminatory or excessive and are intended to provide sufficient revenue to operate the water
enterprise pursuant to the Government Code.
Section 4. This ordinance shall be published as required bylaw.
Mayor
I, JUDITH A. MALFATTI, City Clerk of the City of Burlingame, do hereby certify
that the foregoing ordinance was introduced at a regular meeting of the City Council held on the
Is t day of JULY 1997, and adopted thereafter at a regular meeting of the City Council held on
the 4tVdlay of AUGUST 1997, by the following vote:
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