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CITY OF STUART, FLORIDA AGENDA ITEM REQUEST CITY COMMISSION

Meeting Date: 12/11/2017

Prepared by: Sam Amerson, PE - Public Works Director

Title of Item:

Stormwater Utility Billing Roll Update (RC)

Summary Explanation/Background Information on Agenda Request:

At the regular meeting of May 22, 2017 the commission authorized Hazen and Sawyer to provide a Stormwater Utility Billing Roll Update.

This stormwater billing roll review and update includes a series of tasks which will reclassify service area parcels for flat or non-flat fee assignment, and measure and recalculate ERU assignments for non-flat fee residential and non-residential parcels. This process may uncover currently untapped revenue and would support the migration to a non-ad valorem assessment method of revenue collection. The City’s current method of stormwater revenue collection places a stormwater fee item alongside water and wastewater collection fees on the monthly utility bill. Additionally, we wish to evaluate placing the utility fee on the Martin County tax bill by utilizing the uniform method of non-ad valorem assessment as an alternative method of stormwater utility revenue collection.

If it remains the City’s intention to implement stormwater utility revenue collection in 2018, Ch. 197.3632 does provide for the extension of that date to March 1, if the property appraiser, tax collector agree and local government agree to do so. Note that the resolution of intent is only what its title implies and hence is a non-binding first step in the process of migrating stormwater revenue collection from the utility bill to the tax bill.

Attached is a draft Notice of Intent with required publication dates and a copy of Chapter 197.3632 FS.

Funding Source:

N/A

Recommended Action:

Authorize staff to proceed with scheduling a public hearing on February 12, 2017 at 5:30 P.M. at City Hall, located at 121 SW Flagler Avenue, Stuart, Florida, the purpose of which is to consider the adoption of a Resolution authorizing the City of Stuart to use, in accordance with Section 197.3632, Florida Statutes, the uniform method of collecting such non-ad valorem assessments as have been or will be levied by the City of Stuart, which the city would continue to use for each year until discontinued.

ATTACHMENTS:
	Description	Upload Date	Type
	Draft Notice of Intent	12/1/2017	Attachment
	Copy of Ch197.3632 FS	12/1/2017	Attachment