MEETING OF THE CITY OF
CONNELL,
The special meeting, of the City Council of the City of
PRESENT:
Mayor
STAFF:
Public Works Director
Public Works
Director Munyan went over meter installation costs and impact fees for water
services and advised that actual buy in would be about $40,000 per individual.
Impact fees for the City of
The impact fees, based on meter size, did not include cost of the meter or installation.
Council
consensus was to proceed with impact fees as presented based on the size of the
meter and actual cost.
WASTEWATER HOOK UP FEES
Public Works Director Munyan discussed future sewer impacts due to new housing developments and golf course. He advised that at this time he did not have much information in regards to wastewater hook up fees and would need to look into it further to bring back to Council.
DISCONNECT/RECONNECT FEES
Director Munyan also noted that the City needed to take a closer look at penalty fees for having to turn meters off and on. This was not a problem during the day but was costly after hours due to overtime for staff. Usually staff received one to two calls a month in regards to shut offs after hours.
WATER BILLS PRO-RATE/AVERAGE
Deputy Clerk-Treasurer reported that since the water rates had been restructured and there was no longer a cushion for minimum usage complaints were being received after meters were uninsulated. Application Software Program (ASP) would update the billing system for about $2,000. This would allow averaging of the bills for winter months while meters were insulated.
Public Works Director advised that even with the new meters in some areas of town and the new meter reading devices the meters could not be read through the snow.
Council
consensus was to look into purchasing an upgrade for the water billing system to
average bills.
Council also discussed disconnections of non payments for water bills.
Currently no fines were being
assessed when residents were disconnected due to non payment of water
bills.