§ 360-33. Annual service fee.

The City of North Wildwood shall charge and collect fees for sewer services, which fees shall be determined as follows:

A. 

The formula for calculation shall include a fixed rate and a variable rate for the total annual sewer charges. The fixed rate shall be $5 per 1,000 gallons of metered water consumption, multiplied by the total of 12 months consumption of the immediate preceding year. The third quarter rate shall be variable.

[Amended 11-5-2014 by Ord. No. 1661; 2-18-2020 by Ord. No. 1795]

B. 

The total annual amount of revenue needed to cover wastewater treatment costs shall be calculated by the Tax Collector and Chief Financial Officer. The total fixed-rate charges generated in accordance with Subsection A above shall be deducted from the total annual revenues necessary to fund waste water treatment.

C. 

The dollar value difference determined in Subsection B shall be used to determine the variable rate by dividing said difference by the total metered water consumption of the three-month period covering the months of June, July and August of the immediately preceding year.

D. 

Notwithstanding the formula as established herein, no user of sewerage services in the City of North Wildwood shall pay less than the designated minimum annual fee as determined by the Tax Collector, as further set forth in Subsection E hereof.

E. 

Upon making the calculations defined herein, the Tax Collector, in consultation with the Chief Financial Officer, shall submit the proposed sewage rates and a minimum charge to City Council for confirmation by resolution. City Council shall have the right to review these calculations and to take testimony from municipal officials and such other persons as City Council may deem necessary to confirm the proposed sewage rates and the minimum charge, as submitted by the Tax Collector. Should the City Council fail to act within 20 days of the submission of the proposed rates and the minimum charge, the proposed rates and minimum charge shall be conclusively deemed to have been confirmed as submitted. No bills for the annual sewage charges shall be issued until the charges are confirmed by City Council or until the twenty-day-period has expired.

F. 

In the event that an industrial or commercial property utilizes well water rather than, or in addition to, the municipal water system, then a meter shall be installed by the property owner.

Amended 12-6-1988 by Ord. No. 1024; 10-16-1990 by Ord. No. 1073; 3-4-1997 by Ord. No. 1252