TAKE NOTICE

TAKE NOTICE Take notice that the Board of Supervisors of Chesterfield County, Virginia, at an adjourned meeting on Wednesday, April 25, 2007 at 6:30 p.m. in the County Public Meeting Room at the Chesterfield Administration Building, Route 10 and Lori Road, Chesterfield, Virginia, will hold a public hearing to consider:

An ordinance to amend the Code of the County of Chesterfield, 1997, as amended, by amending and re-enacting Sections 18-22 and 18-27 relating to fees for water and wastewater connection and monthly water and wastewater capacity cost charges.

This ordinance is being proposed pursuant to authority granted to the County by Va. Code §§ 15.2-2109, 15.2-2118, 15.2-2119 and 15.2-2143. The full text of the ordinance is reproduced below. A copy of the ordinance is also on file in the County Administrator's office, Room 504, 9901 Lori Road, Chesterfield County, Virginia and may be examined by all interested persons between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday.

The hearing is held at a public facility designed to be accessible to persons with disabilities. Any persons with questions on the accessibility of the facility or the need for reasonable accommodations should contact Lisa Elko, Clerk to the Board, at 748-1200. Persons needing interpreter services for the deaf must notify the Clerk to the Board no later than Friday, April 20, 2007.

AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND THE CODE OF THE COUNTY OF CHESTERFIELD, 1997, AS AMENDED, BY AMENDING AND RE-ENACTING SECTIONS 18-22 AND 18-27 RELATING TO CONNECTION FEES AND UTILITY CHARGES

BE IT ORDAINED by the Board of Supervisors of Chesterfield County: (1) That Sections 18-22 and 18-27 of the Code of the County of Chesterfield, 1997, as amended, are amended and re-enacted to read as follows:

Sec. 18-22. Connection fees. (a) The water connection fee shall be the capital cost recovery charge plus the meter installation charge based on the size of the water meter that the director installs. The wastewater connection fee shall be the capital cost recovery

charge for the size of the water meter that serves the property, or, if the property does not receive water service, the size of the water meter that would serve the property if it received water service. (b) The capital cost recovery charge shall be:
Customer Class
(i)   For a dwelling, single-family,
    including townhouses, mobile homes that
    are not located in a mobile home park, and
    individually metered multi-family dwelling
    units.
(ii) For a dwelling, two-family (per unit)
(iii) For   mobile   homes   that   are   located
    in a mobile home park and for master
    metered multiple-family dwellings other
    than   multiple-family   dwellings   used
    exclusively as housing for colleges and/or
    universities (per unit)
(iv) For all other customer classes

Meter               Number of ERU's
Size (inches)         per Unit
                                                Capital Cost Recovery Charge
                                                Water                         Wastewater
5/8                   1.00                     $ 3,592.00                     $ 2,050.00
                                                $3,970.00                     $2,370.00
5/8                   1.00                     3,592.00                       2,050.00
                                                3,970.00                       2,370.00
                      0.85                     3,053.00                       1,743.00
                                                3,375.00                       2,015.00
5/8                   1.00                     3,592.00                       2,050.00
                                                3,970.00                       2,370.00
1                     2.50                     8,980.00                       5,125.00
                                                9,925.00                       5,925.00
1 1/2                 5.00                     17,960.00                     10,250.00
                                                19,850.00                     11,850.00
2                     8.00                     28,736.00                     16,400.00
                                                31,760.00                     18,960.00
3                     16.00                   57,472.00                     32,800.00
                                                63,520.00                     37,920.00
4                     25.00                   89,800.00                     51,250.00
                                                99,250.00                     59,250.00
6                     50.00                   179,600.00                     102,500.00
                                                198,500.00                     118,500.00
8                     80.00                   287,360.00                     164,000.00
                                                317,600.00                     189,600.00
10                     115.00                   413,080.00                     235,750.00
                                                456,550.00                     272,550.00
12                     155.00                   556,760.00                     317,750.00
                                                615,350.00                     367,350.00
The capital cost recovery charge for meters that are larger than 12 inches shall be determined by the director based on the number of ERUs per unit.

(v) The capital cost recovery charge for a dwelling that is served by a meter that is larger than five-eighths inch shall be the same capital cost

recovery charge in subsection (b)(iv).

(c) The meter and water service line installation charge shall be:
(1) For installing water service lines:
                                                  5/8"                       $ 777.00
                                                  1"                           981.00
                                                  1 1/2"                     1,641.00
                                                  2"                         1,836.00
(2) For installing meters:
                                                  5/8"                       $ 35.00
                                                  1"                           90.00
                                                  1 1/2"                     205.00
                                                  2"                         250.00
(3) For installing residential outside use meters using existing service lines: $375.00. (4) The meter and water service line installation charge for meters that are larger than two inches shall be the actual cost that the county incurred to install the meter plus 25 percent. (d) The consumer shall construct, at his expense, the wastewater lateral to serve the property. (e) Residential property owners who apply for a utility connection may pay the connection fee in 36 monthly installments. Interest at a rate of two percent above the prime rate that is published in the Wall Street Journal on the day that the residential consumer executes the installment contract shall be added to all connection fees that are paid in installments. The residential consumer shall also pay an installment contract loan handling fee of three percent and a lien recording fee that is equal to the lien recording fee that is charged by the clerk of the circuit court of Chesterfield County at the time that the residential consumer applies to connect to the utility system. (f) No capital cost recovery charge shall be charged for a meter that is five-eighths of an inch in size or smaller which serves any business that is located in an Enterprise Zone designated by the Commonwealth of Virginia if the business is connecting to the county utility system for the first time. This exemption shall continue for the life of the Enterprise Zone.

(g) When the board of supervisors approves a utility extension that is funded in whole or in part by the Federal Community Development Block Grant Program, the board of supervisors may eliminate connection fees for property on which an existing residence is located and which is served by the extension for customers who apply for service within 30 days after the extension is completed.

(h) The capital cost recovery charge shall be the charge that is in effect on the date that the customer applies for service except that, when the board of supervisors approves funding for a utility extension to a developed area, the capital cost recovery charge for customers who apply for service within 30 days after the extension is completed shall be the capital cost recovery charge that was in effect when the board approved the extension. o o o

Sec. 18-27. Utility charges.

Effective July 1, 2006 2007, the consumer shall pay charges for utility service in accordance with the following schedules: (a) Monthly service charges. The monthly service charge shall be:

(1)Customer cost charge. A customer cost charge of $1.50 $1.70 for each service account. However, customers who have only a water account or a wastewater account shall pay a customer cost charge of $3.00 $3.40.

(2) Commodity cost charge.

(i) Water: $1.24 per 100 cubic feet (Ccf). (ii) Wastewater: $1.31 per 100 cubic feet (Ccf). (3) Capacity cost charge.
Customer Class
(i)     Dwelling, single-family, including townhouses
      and mobile homes that are not located in a
      mobile home park
(ii)   Dwelling, two-family (per unit)
(iii)   Mobile homes that are located in a mobile
      home park and multiple-family dwellings other
      than multiple-family dwellings used exclusively
      as housing for colleges or universities (per
      unit)
(iv)   All other customer classes

Meter               Number of ERU's
Size (inches)         per Unit
                                                              Monthly Capacity Charge
                                                Water                         Wastewater
5/8                   1.00                     $2.80                           $7.90
                                                $3.48                           $9.20
5/8                   1.00                     2.80                           7.90
                                                3.48                           9.20
                      0.85                     2.38                           6.72
                                                2.96                           7.82
5/8 and 3/4         1.00                     2.80                           7.90
                                                3.48                           9.20
1                     2.50                     7.00                           19.75
                                                8.70                           23.00
1 1/2                 5.00                     14.00                           39.50
                                                17.40                           46.00
2                     8.00                     22.40                           63.20
                                                27.84                           73.60
3                     16.00                   44.80                           126.40
                                                55.68                           147.20
4                     25.00                   70.00                           197.50
                                                87.00                           230.00
6                     50.00                   140.00                         395.00
                                                174.00                         460.00
8                     80.00                   224.00                         632.00
                                                278.40                         736.00
10                     115.00                   322.00                         908.50
                                                400.20                         1,058.00
12                     155.00                   434.00                         1,224.50
                                                539.40                         1,426.00
(v) The capacity cost charge for a dwelling that is served by a meter that is larger than five-eighths inch shall be the capacity cost charge in subsection (a)(3)(iv).

(b) Ancillary charges.

Type Charge (1) Portable water meter deposit $750.00 (2) Bacteriological test for new construction 21.50 per test (3) Meter testing charges (i) 5/8-inch 30.00 (ii) 1-inch 30.00 (iii) 1 1/2-inch 40.00

(iv) 2-inch 40.00

(v) Meters that are larger than two inches will be charged the actual cost of the test.

(4) Temporary voluntary meter disconnection fee Customer cost charge plus capacity costs charge for each billing period of disconnection, plus service reconnection fee.

(5) Strong waste surcharge (See section 18-107.)

(6) Septage dumping charge $25.00 per 1,000 gallons

(c) The water volume for residential consumers who are connected to the wastewater system but not to the water system shall be 0.296 hundred cubic feet per day. Non-residential consumers who are connected to the wastewater system but not to the water system shall install a private meter approved by the director. The volume shall be based on the private meter reading. (d) A consumer who has paid a connection fee shall pay the monthly service charge and ancillary charges, irrespective of whether the consumer is actually receiving utility service. (e) Significant industrial users shall pay a surcharge for the cost of treating excessive strength waste or pollutants in accordance with article IV. (f) When a water meter is tested at the consumer's request and the test establishes that the meter is inaccurate according to industry standards (AWWA C700a-91, section 3.8, Registration Accuracy) the consumer shall not be assessed the meter testing charge.

(2) That this ordinance shall become effective July 1, 2007.