HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance - 2013-O0051 - Reese Water Wholesale Rate - 05/23/2013First Reading
May 9, 2013
Item No. 5.5
Second Reading
May 23, 2013
Item No. 5.3
ORDINANCE NO.2013-CX1051
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 22 (UTILITIES) OF THE CODE OF
ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF LUBBOCK, TEXAS, BY ADDING SECTION
22.03.091(h) OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF LUBBOCK THAT
PROVIDES FOR A SPECIFIC WHOLESALE WATER VOLUME RATE
MULTIPLIER FOR LUBBOCK REESE REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY;
PROVIDING FOR PUBLICATION; PROVIDING A SAVINGS CLAUSE; AND
PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
WHEREAS, the City of Lubbock and Lubbock County established Lubbock
Reese Redevelopment Authority by Joint Resolution No. 5575, dated June 26, 1997;
WHEREAS, the State of Texas enacted legislation on July 11, 1997 affirming the
creation of the Lubbock Reese Redevelopment Authority to accept title from the United
States to all or any portion of the real, personal, and mixed property situated within Reese
Air Force Base;
WHEREAS, Texas Tech University, South Plains College, and the City of
Lubbock have also received property on the former Reese Air Force Base for use in
education, research, and training of the citizens of Lubbock and the surrounding
communities;
WHEREAS, the City of Lubbock has provided Lubbock Reese Redevelopment
Authority with wholesale water pursuant to that certain Wholesale Water Sales Interlocal
Agreement approved by the City of Lubbock in Resolution No. 2003-110202, dated May
22, 2003;
WHEREAS, the City of Lubbock and Lubbock Reese Redevelopment Authority
have negotiated a new Interlocal Wholesale Water Sales Contract that has been approved
by the Board of Directors of the Lubbock Reese Redevelopment Authority; and, which
provides that the City Council of the City of Lubbock may specify a volume rate
multiplier other than the current wholesale water volume rate multiplier of 1.5; and
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City deems it to be in the best interest of the
citizens of the City of Lubbock to establish a specific wholesale water volume rate
multiplier for the Lubbock Reese Redevelopment Authority instead of the wholesale
water volume rate multiplier contained in Section 22.03.085(6)(A) of the Code of
Ordinances due to the longstanding special relationship that has existed between the City
of Lubbock and Lubbock Reese Redevelopment Authority and the contributions that it
has made to the redevelopment of the former Reese Air Force Base, as well as the
ongoing economic development, education, research, and job creation that benefits the
City of Lubbock, Lubbock County, and the South Plains region;
NOW THEREFORE:
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LUBBOCK:
SECTION l: THAT Section 22.03.091(h), Lubbock Reese Redevelopment
Authority, of the Code of Ordinances, City of Lubbock, Texas is hereby added to read as
follows:
Solely for the purposes of Lubbock Reese Redevelopment Authority, the water volume
rate shall be equal to the water volume rate for all other commercial customers as set
forth in Section 22.03.085 of this division as applicable to each block. All other
provisions as set forth in Section 22.03.085(6)(A) regarding wholesale water customers
shall continue to apply to the Lubbock Reese Redevelopment Authority.
SECTION 2: THAT the City Secretary is hereby authorized and directed to
cause publication of the descriptive caption of this Ordinance as an alternative method of
publication as provided by law.
SECTION 3: THAT should any section, paragraph, sentence, clause, phrase or
word of this Ordinance be declared unconstitutional or invalid for any reason, the
remainder of this Ordinance shall not be affected thereby.
SECTION 4: THAT this Ordinance shall become effective, except as may
otherwise be provided herein, from and after its publication as provided by law.
AND IT IS SO ORDERED.
Passed by the city council on first reading this 9th day of May , 2013.
Passed by the city council on second reading this 2grd day of _my 12013.
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GLEWL AOERTSON, Mayor
ATTEST:
liebec Garza, City Secre
PPROVE °'f CO NT:
'fo d Klein, District 43 Councilman
APPROVED AST ORM:
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.aura raft, Assistant City Attorney
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