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HomeMy WebLinkAboutRES NO 123-10RESOLUTION NO. 123- 10 A RESOLUTION OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BAKERSFIELD SETTING DOMESTIC WATER AVAILABILITY FEE. WHEREAS, the City is slated with the responsibility of ensuring that all proposed development in the City's Domestic Water Service area will have a viable high quality water supply and pressures or such development cannot proceed; and WHEREAS, in order to ensure water supplies will be available for current and new users, the City must take all necessary steps to procure and capture water resources, including, but not limited to, acquiring real property for the drilling of water wells, installation of transmission water mains and water treatment facilities; and WHEREAS, the cost of procuring and maintaining the water supply is an expense which is funded from the various fees established for the use of such water supplies; and WHEREAS, the Availability Fee charged to ensure water will be accessible for new development (cost of funding new water well construction, purchase of land for recharge facilities, etc.) is currently $5,450.00 per acre and has not been adjusted since January 1, 2010; and WHEREAS, pursuant to Government Code Section 66016, the City noticed a hearing for October 13, 2010 regarding the setting of the availability fee; and WHEREAS, while, pursuant to the calculations set forth in Exhibit "A", attached hereto and incorporated herein by reference, the new availability fee needs to be set at $5,664.00 per acre effective January 1, 2011 to offset these increased costs, pursuant to Bakersfield Municipal Code Section 14.04.120(B) in accordance with the Construction Cost Index as defined in the Bakersfield Municipal Code Section 15.84.030(D). Page 1 of 3 AK, q ORiGINA' NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the City of Bakersfield as follows: 1. The above recitals are true and correct and incorporated herein by reference; 2. The City Council hereby adopts a new water availability fee of $5,664.00 per acre based upon the calculations contained in Exhibit "A"; 3. Such fee represents the reasonable cost of ensuring an adequate water supply for future development in the City. 000-------------- s OI Page 2 of 3 r t,~ C ORi('1NA1 HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Resolution was passed and adopted by the Council of the City of Bakersfield at a regular meeting thereof held on OCT 13 2010 by the following vote: AYE COUNCIL MEMBER COUCH, CARV/ L'111 L/ SON, BE AM, HA SON, SUL IL VAN, SCRIVNER, WEIR S: COUNCILMEMBER VV\!_ ABSTAIN: COUNCILMEMBER (\M%Q ABSENT: COUNCIL EMBER r\CNA - L it ~a4' ROBERTA GAFFOR CMC CITY CLERK AND E OFFICIO Clerk of the Council of the City of Bakersfield APPROVED OCT 13 2010 By APPROVED AS TO FORM: VIRGINIA ~GE,~ NARO City Attorn By Le 4, V GINIA E ARO Ity Attorney 'u O Page 3 of 3 r rJ C D 'INN ENR Construction Cost Index January February March April May June July August September October November December Divided by 12 AVAILABILITY FEE 2009 2008 9810.94 9183.42 9796.69 9183.42 9799.19 9199.69 9797.44 9204.69 9789.94 9223.94 9777.19 9265.94 9764.44 9335.69 9766.19 9342.44 9765.44 9394.19 9760.69 9894.94 9760.94 9876.19 9763.69 9823.19 117,352.78 112,927.74 9,779.40 9,410.65 Computation of change in CCI: 2009 9,779.40 2008 9,410.65 Change 368.75 Change 3.92% Current Availability Fee - Jan 1, 2010 $5,450 Change Construction Cost Index 3.92% New Availability Fee - Jan 1, 2011 $5,664 o~,~6AKF90) r J C 0R1('jINA1