HomeMy WebLinkAbout2024-011 Ordinance to amend Chapter 7.50.040 of the Yakima Municipal Code, Utility Accounting ORDINANCE NO. 2024-011
AN ORDINANCE amending the City of Yakima Municipal Code Section 7.50.040 relating to
utility service fees.
WHEREAS, the City of Yakima is engaged in various municipal functions, and the City
provides various public services, several of which entail fees; and
WHEREAS, the City has created a Master Fee Schedule where fees are maintained and
published instead of in all of the various ordinances; and
WHEREAS, in an effort to complete the process of removing these fees from the Municipal
Code into the Master Fee Schedule, now, therefore;
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF YAKIMA:
Section 1. Section 7.50.040 of the City of Yakima Municipal Code is hereby amended
to read as follows:
Fees and charges shall apply when the listed actions are taken/provided by the utility services
division and/or water/irrigation division. The fees are set forth in the Master Fee Schedule and
shall be considered the base for calculations of future fee increases. Once every two years
beginning in March 2008 (or as soon thereafter as reasonably possible based upon availability of
the indices set forth herein), an adjustment shall be added to the base figures that is either eighty
percent of the December change in the United States Consumer Price Index for Wage Earners
and Clerical Workers (CPI-W) for the Seattle, Tacoma, Bremerton region or eighty percent of the
December Implicit Price Deflator for Personal Consumer Expenditures, whichever is lower and
rounded to the nearest whole dollar, to reflect the changes in inflation for these two indices over
the previous two calendar years. (For purposes of determining the change in the CPI, the standard
reference base period of 1984 equals one hundred will be used.) The following fees and charges
shall be included and updated, as appropriate, in the Master Fee Schedule:
a. Account reinstatement fee
b. Start temporary water service (less
than twenty-four hours in duration)
c. Immediate service—customer request
d. Irrigation shut-off fee
e. Turn-on and shut-off customer request
for nonbusiness hours
f. Meter obstruction charge (after notice)
g. Check read charge, after first accurate
check read within one billing cycle
h. Lien processing fee
i. Returned NSF check fee
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j. Field visit for delinquency
k. (For future use)
I. Illegal turn-on, tampering of utility
service or illegal connection as
defined in YMC -
* "Business hours" for purposes of this
section correspond to the work shift of water
service specialists established by the city
water/irrigation division from time to time.
Current work shift hours are Monday through
Friday, 7:00 a.m. through 3:30 p.m.,
excluding holidays. These hours are subject
to change, and the utility services division will
update and provide notice of business hours
to customers by any means deemed
appropriate, including posting of such
information on its Internet website.
Section 2. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect 30 days after its passage,
approval, and publication as provided by law and by the City Charter.
PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL, signed and approved this 2nd day of April, 2024
Patricia yers, ayor
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Publication Date: April 6, 2024
Effective Date: May 6, 2024
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BUSINESS OF THE CITY COUNCIL
YAKIMA, WASHINGTON
AGENDA STATEMENT
Item No. 12.
For Meeting of:April 2, 2024
ITEM TITLE: Ordinance to amend Chapter 7.50.040 of the Yakima Municipal
Code, Utility Accounting
SUBMITTED BY: Rosylen Oglesby, Interim Director of Finance and Budget
*Anabel Chavez, Utility Customer Services Manager
SUMMARY EXPLANATION:
The Utility Accounting rates are included in the Master Fee Schedule that was adopted by
Council on December 5, 2023 via R-2023-172. This ordinance will remove any reference to the
rates from the Yakima Municipal Code.
ITEM BUDGETED: NA
STRATEGIC PRIORITY: Public Trust and Accountability
APPROVED FOR SUBMITTAL BY THE CITY MANAGER
RECOMMENDATION:
Pass Ordinance.
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