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I <br />IN'rHE CITY COUNCIL OF 'EPEE CITY OF SAN LEANDRO <br />RESOLUTION NO. 2019-084 <br />RESOLUTION TO ACCEPT THE WASTEWATER UTILITY FINANCIAL PLAN AND <br />RATES STUDY AND WASTEWATER UTILITY CAPACITY CHARGES STUDY AND PROVIDE <br />DIRECTION TO PROCEED WITH THE PROCESSES AND PROCEDURES TO INCREASE THE <br />SEWER SERVICE RATE AS REQUIRED BY PROPOSITION 218 <br />WHEREAS, the Water Pollution Control Enterprise Fund has rate setting objectives to adequately <br />fund sewer utility operations, maintenance, capital replacement expenditures and debt service obligations, <br />while keeping rates as competitive as possible and maintaining a prudent level of reserves; and <br />WHEREAS, the City Concluded a Wastewater utility Financial Plan and Rates Study and <br />Wastewater Utility Capacity Charges Study to ensure equitable allocation among customer classifications <br />and project the fiscal sustainability of the wastewater utility; and <br />WHEREAS, this Wastewater Rate Study, a copy of which is attached, concluded that wastewater <br />utility rates need to be increased in order to adequately fund operations, maintenance, capital replacement <br />expenditures and debt service operations; and <br />WHEREAS, the City concluded a Wastewater Utility Capacity Charges Study to ensure equitable <br />charges for adding additional loading to the sewer system; and <br />WHEREAS, this Capacity Charges Study concluded that a new schedule ofcharges should be <br />instituted and that rates should increase annually by the ENR -20 City index as published by Engineering <br />News -Record and on the schedule as set by City Council. <br />NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of San Leandro does RESOLVE as follows: <br />• That the City Manager or his or her designee, in accordance with Proposition 218, is authorized <br />to take all actions necessary to properly notice the af'lected property owners and proceed with <br />the necessary procedures to authorize the sewer service rate increase. <br />• That the requisite Proposition 218 Public Hearing for the proposed sewer service rate increase <br />and vote tally shall be held on July 15, 2019. <br />Introduced by COLHICilinernber Cox and passed and adopted this 6th day of May 2019, by the <br />following vote: <br />Members of the Council: <br />AYES: COLHICi hnernbers Aguilar, Bal lew, Cox, f lernandez, Lee, Lopez; Mayor Cutter (7) <br />NOES: None (0) <br />EXCUSED: None <br />ATTEST: <br />"E'Citt I. Mimic], Citg,'lerk <br />