Needles Municipal Code § 3.2 Refund of wastewater system extension costs

of the customer’s extension by the city, the customer may be eligible for a partial refund of construction costs. To be eligible for a refund the customer’s total extension construction costs, (less premises connection construction costs and connection fees) must be over two hundred dollars, and the additional customer’s construction must also be an extension(s) directly connected to, or service lines directly connected to the customer’s extension. If these conditions are met, then the additional customer(s) must pay a portion of the customer’s extension construction costs. The amount due shall be based upon the amount of extension capacity required by the additional customer(s). The additional customer(s) are not required to reimburse the customer’s extension costs, if the additional customer(s) cannot be served by the customer’s extension, or the customer’s extension must be upgraded in size, or a lift station must be installed to increase capacity, or the customer’s extension main(s), service(s) or trunk line(s) that are being extended from are gravity lines and are eight inches in diameter or smaller.

completed: execute a wastewater service extension agreement; submit final engineering drawings of the wastewater system and costs estimates which separate service or premises connection costs from the main or trunk line construction costs; and provide a written summary of the estimated total capacity and required capacity of each main or trunk line for the premises being served. The city shall review and approve the drawings, estimates and summary prior to the final agreement being executed.

reimburse the customer through a nonrefundable contribution to construction made payable to the city. The contributions will be calculated by multiplying the original construction costs, less premises connection construction costs and connection fees, by the percentage of capacity required by the additional customer(s) development. The city shall then add a fifteen percent administrative fee to the calculated amount, and the total of the two amounts shall be the nonrefundable contribution required from the additional customer(s). The city shall then pay the original customer the calculated percentage of capacity costs, and shall retain the administrative fee. Customer shall not earn interest on extension construction costs that are refundable.

whoever executed the extension agreement. If development or property ownership or control changes during the refund period, it is the customer/developer’s responsibility to form a refund resolution agreement between the parties of such a transaction. The city will not honor any contractual or other arrangement that transfers the refund from the original customer/developer, who executed the extension agreement to another party, even if a refund resolution agreement exists between the parties.

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other words, if the agreement executed states the customer’s development will utilize forty-five percent of the system capacity, and the actual capacity required is less, the city shall only collect refunds for the fifty-five percent of noncommitted capacity. In the above example, the customer shall not be entitled to a construction costs refund of greater than fifty-five percent regardless of how much additional capacity may be connected.

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