Item 5: Ordinance Concerning Fee-Setting and Charges

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(a) The amount charged for such use in the past; (b) Comparable amounts or rates, if any, charged by other airports; (c) The amounts or rates and other municipal benefits agreed to by comparable users of the airport in a contract, lease, or permit; and, (d) The revenue needs of the airport. (2) If the city manager determines that one or more of the factors listed in subsection (1) of this section is irrelevant or inapplicable, the city manager shall notify the mayor and council of that determination. Section 3. Subsection (2) of Section 6.411 of the Eugene Code, 1971, is amended, subsection (3) is renumbered to (4), and a new subsection (3) is added, to provide: 6.411 Ratemaking . (2) Standards. Unless the city manager determines in writing that one or more of the following factors is irrelevant or inapplicable, [T]the amount or rate of any charge for wastewater service, stormwater service or regional wastewater treatment service shall be based on the following: (a) The amount charged for such service in the past; (b) For regional wastewater treatment services the recommendation, if any, of the Metropolitan Wastewater Management Commission, or any successor agency; (c) Applicable federal or state regulations or conditions imposed as part of a federal or state grant or financial assistance agreement; (d) The amounts charged or proposed to be charged by the city of Springfield and other providers of stormwater or wastewater services for comparable services; (e) The revenue needed to pay for the direct and indirect expected costs of constructing, operating, maintaining, and replacing local and regional sewerage facilities based on the adopted budgets of the city of Eugene and the Metropolitan Wastewater Management Commission or its successor, the debt obligations of the city or other entities for construction of the facilities, adopted capital improvement plans of the council, the expected need for financial reserves and contingencies, and other sources of revenue; (f) For an individual stormwater service customer that discharges stormwater that requires extraordinary expense to the city, special surcharge rates based on the type, concentration, quantity, quality and frequency of the discharge. (g) Other relevant adopted policies of the council; (h) The terms of any applicable intergovernmental agreement relating to wastewater or stormwater services or regional wastewater treatment service; and Ordinance - 2 L:\CMO\2007 Council Agendas\M070529\S0705295-attA.doc