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OP(etyr:Aa ORDINANCE NO. 3100-08 AN ORDINANCE amending Ordinance No. 1561-89, as amended by Ordinances No. 1816-91, 2084-95 and 2688-03, authorizing an increase of sewer utility funding to encourage installations of sanitary sewers in unsewered areas of the City and establishing rates and charges related thereto. WHEREAS, Ordinance No. 1561-89 and its amendments offer limited funding assistance to single-family residences, businesses and City Water Utility customers toward the cost of constructing public sanitary sewers, the stipulated payment amount of this funding assistance was established in 1989 at $4,000 and has not been adjusted to reflect current construction costs; and WHEREAS, increasing the payment amount in proportion to construction cost escalation since 1989 will restore the value of this financial incentive as it was originally intended; and WHEREAS, some existing single-family residences,businesses and City Water Utility customers are connected to the city sewer system by means of private lines, side sewers or other connections that are not in conformance with EMC Title 14. In some instances, these non-conforming connections would benefit from extensions of new public sewers to meet code requirements and to enhance public health, safety and the environment. THE CITY OF EVERETT DOES ORDAIN: Section 1. Section 1 of Ordinance No. 1561-89 as amended by Ordinance 2688-03, which reads as follows: Section 1: The Everett Sewer Utility is authorized to pay up to $4,000 per single-family residence or business or other City Water Utility customer on a septic system to encourage formation of Local Improvement Districts for the sole purpose of constructing public sanitary sewer or which include the construction of public sanitary sewers. In addition, the Everett Sewer Utility is authorized to pay up to $4,000 per single- family residence or business or other City Water Utility customer on a septic system toward the City's cost of constructing public sanitary sewers in small, isolated areas within the City's corporate limits that are not served by sanitary sewers. In all cases, the $4,000 City payments shall apply only to single-family residences or businesses or other City Water Utility customer on a septic system that exist at the time the public sewer mains are constructed. Also, the$4,000 payments shall be made in the form of credits deducted from the property owners' proportionate shares of the City's cost of constructing the sanitary sewers. The $4,000 payments shall not be rebates or cash disbursements to new sewer customers. Further, the $4,000 payments apply only to single- family residences or businesses or other City Water Utility customer on a septic systems benefiting from public sanitary sewer mains constructed by City crews or by construction contractors officially retained by the City of Everett.