Property owners, rate payers and other interested parties in, served by or to be served by the City of Warsaw Municipal Sewage Works are hereby notified that Common Council at a meeting held on March 29, 2018, approved on first reading Ordinance No. 2018-04-01, which would amend certain of the rates and charges for services rendered by the Sewage Works. At a meeting of the Common Council to be held at 7:00 p.m. (Warsaw time) on April 16, 2018, in the Warsaw City Hall, 102 S. Buffalo Street, Warsaw, Indiana, 46580, there will be a public hearing on the matter of the rates and charges, and consideration of adoption of said Ordinance No. 2018-04-01, which provides in part as follows:
SECTION 1. Amendment. Section 78-155 of Chapter 78 of the City Code of the City is hereby amended to read as follows:
Section 78-155. Metered Domestic, Non-Domestic or Other Users
(a) The following rates and charges shall apply to all domestic and non-domestic users (who are metered customers of Indiana American Water) and shall be based upon the water used on the premises and returned to the sewage works for treatment:
Debt Debt
User 1/1 Service Service
Charge Charge All Users Warsaw Total
Flow Charge $3.73 $.63 $.44 $.85 $5.65
(per 1,000 gallons)
(b) So that dwelling units are not penalized for the normal increased use of water during the summer months, specifically the period of mid-May through mid-September (the “Consumption Period”) (reflected on sewage works billings issued monthly from July through and including October), the monthly flow charge billing for each dwelling unit for such Consumption Period shall (upon request as provided herein) equal the average of the water usage as determined by the meter readings taken in (i) for 2018, the previous months of November, December, and January (reflected on sewage works billings issued in January, February, and March, respectively) and (ii) for each year thereafter, the previous months of October, November, and December (reflected on sewage works billings issued in November, December, and January, respectively) (such three month period being referred to herein as the “Base Period”). In the event that the average water usage for the applicable Base Period is greater than the water usage for any monthly billing period of the Consumption Period, then the Flow Charge for such monthly billing period shall be computed on the actual water usage for such monthly billing period. To receive the credit provided herein, Owners of a dwelling unit served by the Sewage Works must submit in writing to the Sewage Works a request for application of this Subsection (b) by the Sewage Works which request will remain in effect for so long as the owner continues to own the dwelling unit. A request may not be retroactive. Upon an ownership transfer of a dwelling unit, the new owner must make a similar request in writing to receive the benefit of this Subsection (b).
SECTION 2. Intent. It is the intent of this Common Council that the provisions of this Ordinance be incorporated in the City Code of Warsaw, Indiana, and said provisions may be modified as necessary to accomplish such intent.
SECTION 3. Repeals. Sections 78-155 City Code, as previously amended by the Amendment, is hereby repealed and all other Ordinances and parts of Ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby repealed or amended to the extent of such conflict.
Following the adoption of Ordinance No. 2018-04-01, users located outside the municipality’s corporate boundaries may be entitled to petition the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission under Section 8-1.5-3 to review and adjust the rates and charges imposed on the users if a petition under Section 8-1.5-3 or under IC 36-9-23-26.1 with respect to the same rate ordinance has not been filed.
At such hearing and prior to final adoption of said Ordinance, all interested parties may appear and be heard. A copy of Ordinance No. 2018-04-01 may be examined at the office of the Clerk-Treasurer, City Hall, 102 South Buffalo Street, Warsaw, Indiana 46580.
