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However, an immediate adjustment in the sewer service charge is required to coincide with the V.C.S.D. increaseto prevent a $98,000.00.deficit from occurring in. the Sewer and Drainage Fund balance. The City Council policy in the past has been to have-uniform rates for the entire City for the same services, therefore, it is assumed that any proposed interim rate adjustment would be applied City-wide and not just to that area sewered by V.C.S.D. Over eighty percent (80%) of all accounts in the City and eighty- eight percent (88%) of the accounts sewered by V.C.S.D. are single family homes. Therefore, an adjustment in the City.singl~ family rate to equal the new V.C.S.D. single family rate would be logical. This would increase the total sewer service fee paid from $9.50 bi- monthly to $11.50, an increaseof $2.00 per billing period or a. twenty-onepercent increase. Theincrease could be increased pro- portionately for the remainder of the rate structure. A sewer service charge of $5.75 per month, ($11.50 bi-monthly~ for all residential users and proportionate increase for all other users would yield an additional~$120,000 in revenue. The $22,000 over the $98,000 required for the V.CoS.D. increase would offset a portion of the projected operating deficit next year. Also, it should be kept in mind that the City must reimburse the V.C.S.D. rate~ therefore, any rate set by the City atless than $11.50 bi-monthly wou-ld require the City to pay more' toV.C.S~D~ than was being collected. The chart below compares the current City of Pleasanton sewer service fee schedule with an interim schedule that would set the single family rate in Pleasanton at the new V.C.S.D. rate: Current. Proposed Schedule Schedule Increase a)-Residential Units b) Sleeping Units' c) Office, Light Comm. d) Comm. with cooking or similar facilities 6.15 e) Industrial and Heavy Conmaercial~ 1st 1,000 C.F. 6.15 Each additional ' 1,000 C~F. ' .75 $4175 monthly $5.75 monthly $1~00- 3.70 4.50 .80 4.75 5.75 1.00 7.45 1.30 7.45 1.30 .91 .16 An alternative interim fee schedule that would provide revenue to offset the V.C.SoD. increase and the 1975-76 operating deficit would be possible_by adding a 25 cent surcharge to the residential units, with proportionate surcharges on all other users: -3-