904ORDINANCE N0,22,
AN ORDINANCE REPEALING THOSE PARAGRAPHS
OF SECTION 2 OF ORDINANCE 878 DEALING
WITH WATER CONNECTION FEES AND SEWER
CONNECTION FEES AND REESTABLISHING SAID
FEES UNDER THIS ORDINANCE AS A HATER
DEVELOPMENT CHARGE AND A SEWER DEVELOP-
MENT CHARGE AND FURTHER PROVIDING FOR
THE IMPLEMENTATION OF EACH CHARGE AND
FURTHER PROVIDING FOR THE METHODS OF
PAYMENT AND UTILIZATION OF FUNDS COL-
LECTED THEREUNDER ANDPROVIDING ANEF-
FECTIVE DATE THEREFOR.
WHEREAS, the City of Edgewater has had the benefit of an auditors'
study by May, Zima and Company and an engineers' study by Briley,
Wild and Associates which form the basis for the establishment
of the water connection fees and the sewer connection fees as
set forth under Ordinance 878, and
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Edgewater is desirous
of reestablishing these fees, together with more complete guide
lines and procedures for their implementation and utilization
of said fees collected in accordance with this Ordinance.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE CITY OF
EDGEWATER, FLORIDA:
SECTION 1. That those paragraphs of Section 2 of ordinance 878
dealing with water connection fees and sewer connection fees are
hereby repealed and reestablished as fees under this Ordinance
as a water development charge and a sewer development charge.
SECTION 2. That the City of Edgewater does hereby determine
that it is necessary to impose an impact fee or water development
fee of $200.00 per each single family dwelling unit.
The connection charge for motels shall be in accordance with the
description of a plumbing unit as provided in the Southern Stan-
dard Building Code.
SECTION 3. That the City of Edgewater does hereby determine that
it is necessary to impose an impact fee or sewer development fee
of $150.00 per each single family dwelling unit.
The connection charge for motels shall be in accordance with
the description of a plumbing unit as provided in the Southern
Standard Building Code.
SECTION 4. That said charges should be re-evaluated every
year to assure a sound and fair assignment of charges to the
consumers based on factors determined in said previously re-
ferred to study.
SECTION 5. Definitions
A. A sanitary sewer system includes two broad categories of
sub -systems which are:
1. Primary or sewage disposal system, and
2. Secondary or local collection system. The primary
system is further subdivided into: collector sewers,
interceptors, pump stations, force mains, treatment plants,
and effluent disposal facilities.
The local system includes house service and lateral sewers.
A collector sewer is usually defined by govermental agencies
as follows: "A collector sewer carries flows generated by
two or more lateral sewers whether or not it also provides
direct services to abutting properties."
B. The water system includes two broad categories of sub -systems
and they are:
i. Primary System
a. Wells and well pumps
b. Raw water mains
c. High service pumping
d. Storage and repumping
e. Treatment plant, and
f. Transmission mains
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2. Secondary or Local Distribution System
a. House services including metering
b. Six inch and smaller water mains
C. A family dwelling unit for the purpose of this Ordinance is
defined as follows: Any structure within the City of Edgewater,
Florida desioned for residential inhabitance, together with all
Industrial and commercial uses within the City of Edgewater.
This definition shall include but shall not be limited to the
following: Singly family residents, apartment houses, mobile
homes, trailers, factories, places of business, etc., which
are connected directly or indirectly to the water works and
sewer system of the City of Edgewater, Florida.
SECTION 6. Purpose and Authority
This article establishes procedures to facilitate the orderly
expansion of the City's water supply system and waste water
treatment system and provides alternatives for funding of such
expansion by those benefiting thereby by imposing a user charge
which is reasonably commensurate with the burden currently im-
posed or reasonably anticipated to be imnosed on those systems.
The City of Edgewater has determined that certain necessary
Improvements will have to be undertaken in order to provide
water supply and waste water treatment for the influx of new
residents, industrial and business establishments anticipated to
occur in future years. In order to finance these necessary capi-
tal improvements, several combined methods of financing •ill be
necessary, one of which is a development fee.
The City Council has authority to establish a user charge, here-
inafter called a "development fee" in order to pay for the neces-
sary extension of the water and sewer systems. The amount of this
development fee has been determined on the recommendation of the
City's Consulting Engineers and as distilled through the process
of public meetings. The City Council finds that after an examina-
Lion of all methods of financing, the development fee is a neces-
sary integral part of the financing of future water supply and
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waste water systems in the City at this time, and that this
fee should be reviewed on a regular basis in order to insure
that it continues to reflect a charge that is reasonably com-
mensurate with the burden currently imposed or reasonably
anticipated to be imposed on community services.
SECTION 7. Development Fee Imposed
The impact or development fee will be due and payable upon
installation of the water meter and permanent connection to
the water distribution system and/or the sewer collection
system, and all persons who have not completed the building
unit for which a permit has been obtained and received that
permanent connection by December 31. 1974 shall be subject
to the fee.
SECTION B. Time of Payment
This development fee, for new construction, shall be due and
payable at the time of the issuance of a temporary or final
occupancy permit by the City on the unit so assessed. Fees
for all existing units will be collected prior to the approval
of the application far service for either water or sewer service.
The development fee is comprised of two separate services, ie.
water and sewer. In areas where only one of these services is
available, the applicable fee shall be that established for the
service provided. The applicable fee for the other service will
become due when service is made available.
SECTION 9. Use of Proceeds
The proceeds accumulated by reason of the establishment of a
development fee can be used nnly for the expansion of the pri-
mary water system or the primary sanitary sewerage system.
Said proceeds may not be used for improving, updating or bringing
the present system into compliance with any change in laws brought
about by reason of pollution control.
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SECTION 10. Trust Funds Established
There are hereby established two (2) trust funds, one designated
as (1) "Development Fee Capital Improvement Trust Fund for the
Expansion of Primary Water System", and (2)"Development Fee
Capital Improvement Trust Fund for the Expansion of Primary
Sewerage System". All development fees paid to the City shall
be deposited in the appropriate Trust Fudd to be held in separate
accounts and used only for the purposes of the expansion of the City
of Edgewater's primary water supply system and the primary waste
water treatment system. funds may be disbursed from these ac-
counts in the customary manner in accordance with appropriate
taw with the added requirement that the disbursal of such funds
shall require the approval of the City Manager and the City
Consulting Engineer. Any funds on deposit in the said Trust
Funds which are not immediately necessary for expenditure may
be invested in time deposits of banks or trust companies repre-
sented by certificates of deposit fully secured as provided by
law maturing in a period of eighteen (18) months or less. All
such security shall be held by the depository bank, and all in-
come derived therefrom shall be deposited in the applicable
Trust Funds as hereinabove established.
SECTION 11. If any provision, section, part, sentence or phrase
of this Ordinance shall be held unconstitutional or invalid, all
other provisions, sections, parts, sentences or phrases of this
Ordinance not expressly so held to be unconstitutional or void
shall continue in full force and effect. All Ordinances and
parts of Ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.
SECTION 12. This Ordinance shall take effect immediately upon
its adoption by the City Council and approval by the Mayor at
second reading.
SECTION 13. The City Clerk is hereby directed to advertise
this Ordinance as required by law.
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The first reading of the above Ordinance was read in full and
passed by vote of the City Council of the City of Edgewater,
Florida at a regular meeting of said Council held on the 9th
day of January , 1975 and approved as provided by law.
The second reading of said Ordinance to be at a meetina
of the City Council to be held on the L±day of �L"`v!n'' .
1975, roll call vote being as follows: _
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Approved this q�day of
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This Ordinance was prepared by:
Joseph E. Weaver, City Attorney
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