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The City of Port Coquitlam

MEMORANDUM

B. Kirk DATE: October 29, 1992
City Administrator

FROM: J. Maitland, City Treasurer -
Deputy Administrator

SUBJECT: Utility Rates Multi-Family Units
TiG Committee October 21, 1992

RECOMMENDATION:

That the City maintain the existing policy of charging all residential units at the same rate
for the supply of water and sewer services.

BACKGROUND & COMMENTS:

Following our last years billing a request was received from Councillor Keryluk to
consider changing our billing process to charge a lesser rate for multi-family units similar
to the rate structure available in some other municipalities.

The Committee reviewed the attached survey which indicates that while there are a fair
number of municipalities which give lesser rates to multi-family units, there at least an
equal number that charge as we do.

In 1992 our water rate (after prompt payment discount) was $108 per unit. If we were to
set the multi-family rate at 80% of the single family rate our rates would have been

$113.70 for single family and $91.00 for multi-family.

The Committee recognizes that the only truly fair method of charging for the supply of
water (see attached articles from Municipal World and The Province) is by installing
individual meters and charging each customer according to their actual use. The
Committee is not recommending this be done as the capital cost of the meters and the
ongoing cost of maintaining the meters as well as reading the meters is at this time too
costly. Ball-park cost of installing 10,000 meters would be somewhere between $2.5 and

$4.0 million.

Our present rate structure was established on the basis that each farnily unit benefits
equally from the supply of water therefore each family unit should pay an equal amount
for this service.

. Maitland, City Treasurer -
Deputy Administrator

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