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THE CITY COUNCIL OF WATERLOO, IOWA
WORK SESSION TO BE HELD AT
Harold E. Getty Council Chambers
Monday, June 17, 2024
4:00 PM
RULES FOR WORK SESSION PUBLIC COMMENT
Iowa Code Chapter 21 gives the public the right to attend council meetings, but it
does not require cities to allow public participation except during public hearings.The
city council shall not receive any public comment during a work session.
Roll Call.
Agenda, as proposed or amended.
Approval of Minutes of June 3, 2024, Council Work Session, as proposed or amended.
4:00 p.m. Discussion of an ordinance amending sewer fees.
Submitted by: Randy Bennett, Public Works Division Manager
Approx. 4:40 Update from Waterloo Fiber.
p.m. Submitted by: Kelley Felchle, City Clerk
ADJOURNMENT
Kelley Felchle
City Clerk
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June 3, 2024
COUNCIL WORK SESSION
Harold E. Getty Council Chambers
4:00 p.m.
Roll Call.
Members present: Mayor Quentin Hart in the Chair. Mr. Boesen, Mr. Nichols, Ms. Creighton -
Smith, Mr. Chiles, Mr. Simon, Ms. Wilder and Mr. Feuss.
Agenda, as proposed or amended.
Feuss/Nichols
that the agenda, as proposed, be approved. Voice vote -Ayes: Seven. Motion carried.
Approval of Minutes of May 6, 2024, Council Work Session, as proposed or amended.
Feuss/Nichols
that the minutes of the May 6, 2024, Council Work Session as proposed, be approved. Voice
vote -Ayes: Seven. Motion carried.
Discussion of an ordinance amending Section 5-2-6: Discharging Weapons.
Martin Petersen, City Attorney, provided an overview of the ordinance.
Joe Leibold, Police Chief, shared that there were over 60 paintball gun call for services in the
city in the month of May.
Mr. Simon questioned if this only applies to city property or on private property as well.
Joe Leibold shared that this applies to private and public property. He further provided an
overview of the calls for service.
Council members and Mayor discussed the ordinance and the calls for service with the police
chief and city attorney.
An update from Historic Preservation Commission.
Noel Anderson, Community Planning and Development Director, introduced the Historic
Preservation Commission.
Matthew Gilbert, Historic Preservation Commission Chair, provided an overview of the
Dunsmore House. He shared the house was built in 1865. It is the only limestone residence left
in Waterloo and is on the National Register of Historic Places. The Commission requested that
the city go through an RFP process to hire someone to rehabilitate the house and work with a
local realtor to sell the property as a single-family home. He added that the property is actually
a double lot that could be parceled out, and a second home be built next door.
Council members and the Mayor discussed the proposal with Noel Anderson and Matthew
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Gilbert.
An update from Grow Cedar Valley.
Dave Wilson, Vice Chair of Grow Cedar Valley Board of Directors, introduced today's
presenters, and each provided the council with an update on projects, programs, and
accomplishments since the last update back in November. The presenters included:
Stephanie Detweiler, Director of Workforce & Talent
Nicole Sallis, Director of Marketing and Communications
Lisa Skubal, Vice President of Economic Development
Katy Susong, President & CEO
ADJOURNMENT
Boesen/Chiles
that the council adjourn at 5:07p.m. Voice vote -Ayes: Seven. Motion carried.
Kelley Felchle
City Clerk
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ARTICLE A. USER CHARGES AND FEES
SECTION:
8-3A-1: Wastewater Volume
8-3A-2: Determination Of Rates And Charges
8-3A-3: Charges And Fees
8-3A-4: Connection Charges
8-3A-4-1: Building Sewer Connection Charges; Determination
8-3A-4-2: Cross And Lateral Sewer Connection Charges
8-3A-4-3: Use Of Sewer Connection Charges
8-3A-4-4: Permitted Connections
8-3A-4-5: Violations And Penalties
8-3A-1: WASTEWATER VOLUME:
A. For purposes of establishing user charges, the quantity of wastewater discharged to
the POTW by a user shall be determined by and held to be the quantity of water used based
on water meter readings of the waterworks or private water supply unless otherwise
approved by the Superintendent. If a user shall use water which comes from a private
water supply, the user shall meter the water at his own expense when required by the
Superintendent and shall pay the appropriate user charges.
B. All charges and fees not otherwise provided for in this article shall be set by
resolution. (Ord. 4261, 10-6-1997)
8-3A-2: DETERMINATION OF RATES AND CHARGES:
A. Each connection to the POTW shall pay user charges in accordance with the following
schedule:
1. The maximum quarterly rate shall be based on one hundred percent (100%) of
water consumption during the winter quarter as recorded by the Waterloo Waterworks.
For those users of water being billed on a monthly basis by the Waterloo Waterworks, the
maximum monthly rate shall be based on one hundred percent (100%) of the monthly
water consumption. Industrial users will be billed on actual water consumption unless
otherwise approved by the Superintendent. Any special or private contracts shall be
metered at the user's expense.
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2. Users who have their own private wells shall pay a minimum sixty three dollars
twenty seven cents ($63.27) of fifty three dollars eighty three cents ($53.83) per quarter,
unless required to properly meter wastewater flows by the Superintendent.
3. Users who are located outside of the limits of the City shall pay double the rates
specified herein, unless an agreement has been reached and signed between the City of
Waterloo and the contributing municipality or entity.
4. If the rates as specified in this section are not paid when due as required by this
section, there shall be added to the rates a penalty of five percent (5%). The Clerk shall
certify to the County Treasurer all sewer rates, charges or rentals and penalties delinquent.
5. A surcharge for wastewaters in excess of domestic strength and containing no such
chemical or other substances as would interfere with the proper operation of the purifying
plant, shall be computed according to the following formula:
BOD - $0.10/pound
TSS - 0.10/pound
TKN - 0.10/pound
6. The following sewer rental charge shall become effective beginning JAugust 1,
20232024:
Minimum monthly chargel $21.0920.09
Minimum quarterly charge2 $60.2663.27
Per CCf over minimum monthly charge3 $ 3.2238
Notes:
1. Includes first 3 Ccf.
2. Includes first 9 Ccf.
3. Ccf = 100 cubic feet of metered water used or metered wastewater discharge if
provided in permit.
7. Effective July 1, 2015August 1, 2024, sewer users with flow exceeding eight hundred
million (800,000,000) gallons per year are eligible for the following rates:
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Minimum monthly charge $11.2521.09 (includes first Ccf)
Per Ccf over minimum
monthly charge
$42.70
(Ccf = 100 cubic feet of metered water used or metered wastewater discharge if provided
in permit) Rates will be increased by the same applicable amount that rates under
subsection A6 of this section are increased. (Ord. 4261, 10-6-1997; amd. Ord. 4482, 5-29-
2001; Ord. 4699, 6-14-2004; Ord. 5091, 1-30-2012; Ord. 5287, 6-8-2015; Ord. 5472, 11-13-
2018; Ord. 5558, 6-1-2020; Ord. 5603, 6-7-2021; Ord. 5645, 5-16-2022; Ord. 5702, 5-15-
2023)
8-3A-3: CHARGES AND FEES:
A. Charges And Fees: The city may adopt charges and fees, which may include:
1. Fees for reimbursement of costs of setting up and operating the city's pretreatment
program.
2. Fees for monitoring, testing, inspections and surveillance procedures.
3. Fees for reviewing accidental discharge procedures and construction.
4. Fees for permit applications.
5. Fees for filing appeals.
6. Fees to specific contributing industrial users for consistent removal, by the city, of
pollutants otherwise subject to federal categorical pretreatment standard.
7. Other fees as the city may deem necessary to carry out the requirements contained
herein.
These fees relate solely to the matters identified above and are separate from all other fees
chargeable by the city.
B. City's Scheduling Of Charges And Fees:
1. A surveillance monitoring fee of three hundred fifty dollars ($350.00) per
installation of equipment shall be assessed against each user for which the city, rather than
the user, installs surveillance monitoring equipment for the purpose of conducting
wastewater sampling.
2. A sampling fee of one hundred thirty dollars ($130.00) per site visit for the purpose
of wastewater sample collection shall be assessed against each user.
3. Fees for investigating accidental discharges shall be based on the time expended at
twenty three dollars ($23.00) per hour.
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4. Laboratory testing fees shall be based on actual expenses incurred for each
parameter tested as specified in a fee schedule which the city shall approve and issue from
time to time.
5. A wastewater discharge permit application fee shall be assessed each request for a
wastewater discharge permit in the amount of twenty five dollars ($25.00). Wastewater
discharge permit and/or permit renewal shall be assessed in the amount of two hundred
dollars ($200.00). An additional fee shall be assessed in the amount of one hundred dollars
($100.00) for past due applications.
6. An appeal filing fee shall be assessed in the amount of one hundred dollars
($100.00). (Ord. 4261, 10-6-1997)
8-3A-4: CONNECTION CHARGES:
8-3A-4-1: BUILDING SEWER CONNECTION CHARGES; DETERMINATION:
The charge for making connection to an existing public sewer in the near vicinity of a
property for which it is desired that service be provided shall be determined as follows:
A. Where the property to be served has been specifically assessed for the sewer facilities
prior to the time of the application for connection, there shall be no additional connection
charge, unless at the time of assessment a deficiency was allowed. Then, the sewer
connection charge shall be equal to the deficiency previously allowed.
B. Where the property to be served has not been assessed or is not subject to an
assessment of a special tax for the construction of the sewer facilities to which connection
is sought and said sewer was built through assessments, the connection charge shall be
equal to the average front footage charge assessed to all property on the sewer involved
applied to the front footage of the property to be served. Where the property has frontage
on two (2) intersecting streets, the footage to which the charge shall be applied shall be the
one considered the front in all usual proceedings for assessments. Where unusual parcel
shape would make the charge inequitable to the owner or to the city, the frontage shall be
taken as the lot width at the face of the building.
C. Where the property to be served has not been subject to assessment for the cost of the
public sewer, constructed before January 1, 1978, and the cost thereof was paid by general
taxation, the sewer connection charge shall be calculated on the basis of five dollars fifty
cents ($5.50) per front foot of actual lot frontage, as hereinabove defined, plus fifty dollars
($50.00) hookon.
D. Where the property to be served has not been subject to assessment for the cost of the
public sewer constructed after January 1, 1978, and before January 1, 1982, and the cost
thereof was paid by general taxation, the sewer connection charge shall be calculated on
the basis of fifteen dollars ($15.00) per front foot of actual lot frontage as hereinbefore
defined or the actual front footage construction cost (including engineering, real and
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administrative charges) whichever charge is lesser, plus a hookon charge in the amount of
two hundred dollars ($200.00) per acre prorated to lesser portions of an acre with a
minimum hookon charge of fifty dollars ($50.00) per hookon.
E. Where the property to be served has not been subject to assessment for the cost of the
public sewer constructed after January 1, 1982, and the cost thereof was paid by general
taxation, the sewer connection charge shall be calculated on the basis of the actual front
footage construction cost (including engineering, real and administrative charges), plus a
hookon charge in the amount of two hundred dollars ($200.00) per acre prorated to lesser
portions of an acre with a minimum hookon charge of fifty dollars ($50.00) per hookon.
(Ord. 4261, 10-6-1997)
F. The subject matter of this section is legally described as follows:
Property lying within the North One-half (1/2) of the Northwest Quarter (1/4) of Section
14, Township 88, Range 13 West, City of Waterloo, Black Hawk County, Iowa, except right-
of-way of E. Shaulis Road and Hammond Avenue (hereinafter "described property").
All "described property" not currently assessed for the cost of the public sewer which
proposes to be served by the public sewer or any extension of the public sewer shall be
assessed a hookon charge at the rate of one thousand one hundred twenty four dollars
sixty seven cents ($1,124.67) per acre. This hookon charge shall be paid in full by the
developer in lump sum within thirty (30) days of the city council's acceptance of a
subdivision final plat that is within the "described property". The areas to be used for
calculating the hookon fee shall include the entire area of the subdivision, including street
rights of way, and any included or adjoining areas not used for residential or commercial
development, including, without limitation, ponds, lakes, and parks. Any area not included
in a subdivision final plat but that is a part of the "described property" and which proposes
to hook on to the public sewer or any extension of it shall, at the time the property owner
or user applies to hook on to the public sewer or any extension of it, pay in full any lump
sum it owes to hook on to the public sewer or any extension of it. Hookon charges for
unplatted areas shall be determined by the size of the entire parcel being served.
G. The provisions of the hookon charge provided for in this section shall not apply to any
property covered by a specific hookon charge ordinance. (Ord. 4469, 4-16-2001)
8-3A-4-2: CROSS AND LATERAL SEWER CONNECTION CHARGES:
Before a permit for a new cross or lateral sewer connection to a main sewer shall be
granted, the applicant shall have complied with the terms and conditions for such
connection established by the city council. Such terms and conditions may include, but not
be limited to, engineering design, construction standards, requirements for inspection of
construction of the applicant's sewer, and the setting of equitable fees to be paid for the
right to connect to public sewer and all facilities to which the sewer will be contributory.
(Ord. 4261, 10-6-1997)
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8-3A-4-3: USE OF SEWER CONNECTION CHARGES:
Such charges shall be due without regard to whether the facilities involved, trunk sewers or
POTW have been paid for in full or whether prior assessments and other resources will
cover all costs for such facilities. Connection charges shall be deemed a refund of amounts
yet to be or previously paid by the city from its funds for the additional service made
available to the applicant. (Ord. 4261, 10-6-1997)
8-3A-4-4: PERMITTED CONNECTIONS:
No building sewer connection shall be made to a public sanitary sewer which is not in front
of the property to be served unless the public sewer cannot feasibly be extended and the
building sewer can be connected without creating difficulties for other utilities in the street
or unless any such difficulties are offset by a definite public advantage in having the
connection. No building sewer shall be connected directly into a manhole more than six
inches (6") above the flow line therein. Where a public sewer is extended by an applicant at
his own expense, it shall be constructed in accordance with the specifications of the city for
public sewers and connection charges may be reduced by the cost thereof, in whole or in
part. (Ord. 4261, 10-6-1997)
8-3A-4-5: VIOLATIONS AND PENALTIES:
Any person which shall make a connection without paying connection charges due under
this section 8-3A-4 or in any manner violate the other terms of this section 8-3A-4 shall be,
upon conviction, deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to fine and imprisonment as
provided by law. (Ord. 4261, 10-6-1997)
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