File #: 21-028-O    Name:
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 8/3/2021 In control: Public Works and Utilities
On agenda: 8/16/2021 Final action: 8/23/2021
Title: AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 43-10 OF THE DULUTH CITY CODE, 1959, AS AMENDED AUTHORIZING THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS AND UTILITIES TO EXECUTE CERTAIN DOCUMENTS PERTAINING TO THE WLSSD.
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AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 43-10 OF THE DULUTH CITY CODE, 1959, AS AMENDED AUTHORIZING THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS AND UTILITIES TO EXECUTE CERTAIN DOCUMENTS PERTAINING TO THE WLSSD.

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CITY PROPOSAL:
The city of Duluth does ordain:
Section 1. That Section 43-10 of the Duluth City Code, 1959, as amended, is hereby amended to read as follows:
Sec. 43-10. WLSSD charges apportioned under domestic equivalent system.
(a) At such time as the WLSSD wastewater treatment works presently under construction becomes operational, Ccharges made to the city by the WLSSD for the cost of the city's proportionate share of the operation, maintenance, including replacement and debt service of the WLSSD wastewater facilities, shall be distributed among the users within the city in accordance with the current WLSSD ordinance distributing those costs among its constituent users. domestic equivalent classification system, a copy of which is on file in the office of the city clerk. Revisions to the WLSSD domestic equivalent classification system may be approved by council resolution.
(b) Upon receipt of a wastewater treatment capacity allocation permit or similar document allocating to the city its proportionate costs of WLSSD's waste water treatment system, said document shall be sent to the director of public works and utilities who shall review it and forward it to the city council with the director's recommendation to approve or to disapprove said allocation document. Unless the city council shall, at its next regularly-scheduled meeting, direct the Director to the contrary, the director shall thereafter execute or refuse to execute said document in accordance with the director's recommendation or, if different, the council's direction.
Section 2. That this ordinance shall take effect 30 days after its passage and publication.

Statement of Purpose
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE: The purpose of this ordinance is to allow the director of public works and Utilities to si...

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