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<br /> I COUNCILMAN SWANSON WELCOMED THE STUDENTS ATTENDING fROM CAL YOUNG, WOODROW WILSON AND JEffERSON II I
<br /> JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLS AND SAID ARRANGEMENTS SHOULD BE MADE fOR fEWER TO BE PRESENT AT ONE TIME. THE
<br /> CITY MANAGER EXPLAINED THE TEACHERS REQUESTING PERMISSION fOR THE STUDENTS TO BE PRESENT HAD BEEN II
<br /> ~DVISED Of THE PROBLEMS BUT THEIR ATTENDANCE CANNOT BE PROHIBITED.
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<br /> 2 WATER USER CHARGE - A LETTER fROM MR. RALPH RODERICK WAS REAO AS fOLLOWS: j
<br /> 1I1N LINE WITH THE GENERAL DISCUSSION Of THE WATER USE CHARGES AT THE COUNCIL II
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<br /> COMMITTEE MEETING ON THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1959, WE HAVE, TOGETHER WITH MR. ALLEN
<br /> Of THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT, DEVELOPED A NEW RATE WHICH WE fEEL WILL REDUCE II
<br /> MANY Of mHE OBJECTIONS TO THE EXISTING ORDINANCE. II
<br /> THIS REVISEO RATE WOULD ELIMINATE THE LEGAL PROBLEM Of JUSTifYING CLASSlfl- II
<br /> CATIONS AS IT PROVIDES fOR JUST ONE GRADUATED RATE. THE REVISED RATE COUDD PRO- II
<br /> VIDE fOR A fLAT CHARGE Of $2.00 PER MONTH fOR ALL SINGLE fAMILY RESIDENCES OR IT e
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<br /> COULD REMAIN AS A $2.00 MINIMUM WITH 1,000 CUBIC fEET PER MONTH ALLOWED fOR THE i
<br /> MINIMUM BASED UPON A~ AVERAGE Of THE FOUR WINTER MONTHS. fOR ALL OTHER CUSTOMERS, Ii
<br /> THIS REVISED RATE WOULD BE GRADUATED, THEREBY REDUCING THE UNIT COST FOR THE
<br /> USERS Of LARGE VOLUMES Of WATER. II
<br /> FIRST 1,000 CUBIC fEET 0.20 PER 100 $2...00 M I N IMUM II
<br /> NEXT 4,000 CUBIC FEET 0.15 PER 100 :1
<br /> NEXT 5,000 CUBIC fEET 0.10 PER 100
<br /> I NEXT 15,000 CUBIC FEET 0.075" PER 100
<br /> NEXT 25,000 CUBIC fEET I
<br /> 0.05 PER 100 I
<br /> ALL OVER 50,000 AT 0.03 PER 100
<br /> Ttil S RATE IS A L[TTLE HIGHER THAN THE SUGGESTED RATE USING THE EUGENE WATER I
<br /> AND ELECTRIC BOARD CLASSifiCATION fOR WATER USERS AND WILL INCREASE SOMEWHAT THE
<br /> CHARGE TO THOSE WHO USE FROM 10,000 TO 40,000 CUBIC fEET PER MONTH AND ARE NOW I
<br /> CLASSifiED AS COMMERCIAL USERS: IT DOES, HOWEVER, REDUCE CONSIDERABLY THE RATE
<br /> TO THOSE NOW CLASSIfiED AS RESIDENTIAL USERS WHOSE MONTHLY WATER USE IS IN
<br /> EXCESS Of 10,000 CUBIC FEET. t
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<br /> A TABLE HAS BEEN PREPA~ED TO PRESENT THE ESTIMATED MONTHLY CHARGE TO A
<br /> LARGE GROUP Of USERS FOR THE VARIOUS RATES. IT CAN BE SEEN THAT THE CHARGE TO
<br /> THE SACRED HEART HOSPITAL, fOR INSTANCE, HAS BEEN REDUCED fROM $334.60 PER
<br /> MONTH, BASED UPON THEIR RELATIVE LARGE AVERAGE WATER CONSUMPTION PER MONTH, !
<br /> TO $7Q.30 PER MONTH.L A STUDY Of THESE CHARGES fOR THESE VARIOUS USERS WILL PRE-
<br /> SENT THE EFFECT OF THE REVISED RATE ON THESE USERS.
<br /> You WI LL ,..NOTE I'M SURE THAT THE i~COM~ FROM THIS REVISED RATE WILL BE. I
<br /> MATERIALLY REDUCED. WHILE IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO ESTABLISH THE AMOUNT Of THE
<br /> INCOME TO BE PRODUCEO BY THIS CHARGE WITHOUT A COMPLETE REVIEW Of CHARGES TO I
<br /> ALL USERS, IT WOULD APPEAR fROM THE RECORD OF ANNUAL WATER USAGE THAT IT WOULD
<br /> 1 PRODUCE BETWEEN $400,000 AND $500,000 ANNUALLY. THIS WOULD BE SOMEWHERE IN I I
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<br /> THE VICINITY Of 75 PERCENT OF THE PRESENT INCOME. I
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<br /> ! IT WOULD BE POSSIBLE, Of COURSE, TO INCREASE OR DECREASE THE AMOUNT Of
<br /> INCOME BY ADJUSTING THE REVISEO GRADUATED RATE. THIS SUGGESTED RATE WE BELIEVE
<br /> I APPROACHES THE CHARGES SUGGESTED AT THE PREVIOUS MEETING."
<br /> TABUL~TIONS WERE PRESENTED TO COUNCIL'MEMBERS AND INTERESTED CITIZENS, AND THESE TABULATIONS
<br /> WERE EXPLAINED BY THE DIRECTOR Of PUBLIC WORKS VERBALLY AND BY GRAPHIC REPRESENTATION ON THE VARIOUS e
<br /> SUGGESTED RATES, THE PRESENT RATE AND THE RATE IN EXISTENCE PRIOR TO JULY I, 1959. SOME DISCUSSION
<br /> WAS HAD ON THESE RATES, AND .DURING THE COURSE Of THE DISCUSSI~N MR. BYRON PRICE, SUPERINTENDENT-
<br /> SECRETARY Of THE EUGENE WATER & ELECTRIC BOARD, GAVE HIS CONSIDERATION OF THE VARIOUS ,RATES BEFORE
<br /> THE COUNCIL.. MR. PRICE STATED THAT A fLAT RATE STRUCTURE FOR SINGLE fAMILY RESIDENCES WOULD EASE I
<br /> THE ADMINISTRATIVE PROBLEMS CONSIDERABLY. HE OBJECTED TO A RATE PROPOSAL CONTM NING SIX STEPS AND
<br /> I INDICATED THAT IT IS DiffiCULT fOR BILLING MACHINE OPERATORS ,TO FOLLOW A RATE STRUCTURE CONT~NING
<br /> THIS NUMBER Of RATE CLASSIFICATIONS. HE STATED THAT A FOUR STEP RATE WOULD EASE THIS CONSIDERABLY I'
<br /> AND IT APPEARED WOULD NOT MATERIALLY CHANGE THE REVENUES PRODUCED. 11
<br /> MR. PRICE ALSO STATED THAT THE $2.00 APPEARS EXCESSIVE fOR SOME PENSIONERS WHO HAVE LIMITED II
<br /> INCOMES, AND HE ALSO STATED THE CITY SHOULD ENCOURAGE USE OF WATER FOR IRRIGATION ANO fOR AIR CON-
<br /> DITIONING ALTHOUGH IT WAS HIS WISH THAT SEPARATE METERING BE AVOIDED fOR IRRIGATION AND AIR CONDI-
<br /> TIONING PURPOSES. SOME CONSIDERABLE DISCUSSION WAS THEN HAD ON THREE PROPOSED RATES, TWO Of WHICH
<br /> l ENVISIONED A RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL RATE S.TRUCTURE AND ONE Of WHIC'H WOULD BE A UNifORM RATE
<br /> STRUCTURE fOR RESIDENCES AND COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS.
<br /> CONSIDERABLE DISCUSSION WAS HELD ON THESE VARIOUS RATE STRUCTURES AND IT WAS POINTED OUT THAT I
<br /> ONE SUCH STRUCTURE, BEING KNOWN AS ITEM 4 REVISED RATES DEVELOPED BY THE CITY STAfF IN COOPERATION I
<br /> WITH CONSULTING ENGINEERS, ATTEMPT~D TO iAKE INTO CONSIDERATION THE TREATMENT PLANT LOAD AND THE
<br /> TYPE Of WASTE BEING DEPOSITED AT THE TREATMENT PLANT AND CHARGED ACCORDINGLY. ON THIS BASIS LARGE
<br /> MULTIPLE FAMILY UNITS WOULD PAY IN PROPORTION TO THE AMOUNT OF WASTE DEPOSITED IN THE SEWER SYSTEM
<br /> AND REQUIRING TREATMENT IN THE SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT WHILE THE RATES WOULD BE SCALED DOWN FOR
<br /> VOLUME USERS IN DEPOSITING AS MUCH PATHOGENIC BACTERIA IN THE TREATMENT PLANT.
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