Our "falling apart" water treatment plant, about two blocks from the place we will be building a new one this year because of lack of maintenance early in the rationing-rate system.
Section 1. UTILITY BILLS: Only water and sewer charges shall be on City of
Grants Pass utility bills. Failure to
pay City Utility Bills shall be the only reason to shut off water except for infrastructure
maintenance, ordinances to the contrary notwithstanding.
Section 2. PRINCIPLES
OF RATESETTING:
A.
Monthly
base rates for water shall pay all overhead, expenses that do not rise and fall
with the volume of cleaned water produced. Base Rates shall
be based proportionally on water service size, per connection. Base rates shall rise by actual inflation of
the previous year’s overhead costs over the year before.
B.
A
single unit rate for water shall pay for all unit costs, which rise and fall
with the volume of cleaned water produced.
Water unit rates shall be total unit cost the previous year, divided by
the number of total units produced the previous year.
C. Base rates shall cover all sewage
treatment costs, with rates to be based proportionally
on sewer service size, per connection.
Sewer base rates shall rise by actual inflation of sewer costs in the
previous year over the year before.
D. Bulk water haulers shall pay the ¾
inch base rate per month, plus the city’s unit rate times 1.336 per 1000
gallons, to make all unit rates equal per gallon.
Section 3. CONTINGENCY
FUNDS
A.
Overhead
and unit cost expenses shall include separate contingency funds to cover actual
inflation of expenses during the year for each utility.
B.
There
shall be a separate contingency fund for maintenance of infrastructure for each
utility.
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Talk or write to your Mayor and City
Councilors
About putting this proposed Charter
Amendment on a special election ballot ASAP.
Mayor Clint Scherf 541-450-6000 cscherf@grantspassoregon.gov
Councilor Rob Pell Ward 1 NW 451-476-7578 rpell@grantspassoregon.gov
Councilor Indra Nicholas Ward 1 NW 541-450-6000 inicholas@grantspassoregon.gov
Councilor Rick Riker
Ward 2 NE 541-479-7333 rriker@grantspassoregon.gov
Councilor Victoria Marshall Ward 2 NE 541-450-6000 vmarshall@grantspassoregon.gov
Councilor Eric Schoegl Ward 3 SE 541-450-6000 eschoegl@grantspassoregon.gov
Councilor Seth Benham Ward 3 SE 541-450-6000 sbenham@grantspassoregon.gov
Councilor Joel King Ward 4 SW 541-761-7538 jking@grantspassoregon.gov
Councilor Kathleen Krohn Ward 4 SW 541-450-6000 kkrohn@grantspassoregon.gov
Mayor and Council@grantspassoregon.gov
If we must make this another
initiative petition, it will be another 2-3 years before this passes and takes
effect.
Saturdays, I will usually be East of
Growers Market, between the Post office and the railroad tracks in the RATEPAYERS
REVOLT booth. When special events
are being held, I will be at the event.
Rycke Brown, Natural Gardener 541-955-9040 rycke@gardener.com
