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UTILITY SERVICE CHARGES (B)
Ordinance No. 0-09-11
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING APPENDIX A, SECTION UTILITIES (7) OF THE GAINESVILLE CODE OF ORDINANCES BY AMENDING CERTAIN SERVICE CHARGES AND DECREASING LATE FEE FOR COMBINED STATEMENT; PROVIDING A REPEALING CLAUSE; PROVIDING DIRECTIONS TO THE CODIFIER; PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; AND, PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE SCHEDULE PROVIDED HEREIN.
recommendation
The City Commission adopt the proposed ordinance.
explanation
Staff has performed cost studies on the service charges, such as activation charges to open a new account or relocate service, and after hour charges to reconnect power after hours at a customer's request, and has identified the appropriate prices for the charges based on actual cost of service. Adjusting these service charges to the correct levels will allocate costs to those customers utilizing these services, rather than having these items spread over the entire customer base.
Finally, included in the changes is a decrease to the late payment fee from 2% to 1.5% of the outstanding balance due.
The rate changes will be applied to services rendered after 12:01 A.M., June 1, 2009.