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REGULAR AGENDA - September 2, 2009

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REGULAR AGENDA

CITY COMMISSION, CITY OF HALLANDALE BEACH

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 02, 2009 10:00 AM

1. CALL TO ORDER

2. ROLL CALL

3. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE

4. PRESENTATIONS AND REPORTS

A. Presentation of Certificates to the Student Citizens of the Month

B. Recognition of Participants in the Weed and Seed Drug Education For Youth (DEFY) Camp (Presented by Theodore Harrell, Weed and Seed Site Coordinator)

C. Discussion of Public Works Construction Projects

5. PUBLIC PARTICIPATION (to be heard at 10:15 A.M.)

6. CONSENT AGENDA

A. Approval of Draft Minutes - Regular Meetings of August 5, 2009 and August 19, 2009

7. PUBLIC HEARINGS (to be heard at 10:30 A.M.)

A. An Ordinance of the City of Hallandale Beach, Florida, Amending Article V of the City Code Entitled, "Water and Wastewater Impact Fees," Sections 30-249, 30-253, 30-254 and 30-259; Providing for the Imposition of Impact Fees on New Wastewater Users for Capital Expansion of the Wastewater Treatment System in Order to Serve New Connections; Updating Payment of Wastewater Impact Fees and Accrued Guaranteed Revenue Charges (“AGRC”); Providing a Fee Schedule; Providing for Severability; and Providing for an Effective Date (First Reading)(Staff: Director of Utilities and Engineering)(See Backup)CAD #023/06

8. CITY BUSINESS

A. A Resolution of the City of Hallandale Beach, Florida to Support Broward County's Off-Shore Erosion Control Structure Project and to Affirm the City's Commitment to Participate and to be Included in the Process of Determining the Type and Placement of Off-Shore Structures to Prevent the Erosion of the City's Beach (Staff: Director, Utilities & Engineering) AR #23/09 & CAD #035/97

9. COMMISSIONER REPORTS

10. OTHER

11. PLANNING AND SCHEDULING MEETING (to be heard in Room 257)

7A. CITY OF HALLANDALE BEACH

MEMORANDUM

DATE: July 15, 2009

TO: D. Mike Good, City Manager

FROM: William M. Brant, P.E., Director, Utilities and Engineering

SUBJECT: An Ordinance of the City of Hallandale Beach, Florida Amending Article V of the City Code Entitled, "Water and Wastewater Impact Fees," Sections 30-249, 30-253, 30-254 and 30-259; Providing for the Imposition of Impact Fees on New Wastewater Users for Capital Expansion of the Wastewater Treatment System in Order to Serve New Connections; Updating Payment of Wastewater Impact Fees and Accrued Guaranteed Revenue Charges (“AGRC”); Providing a Fee Schedule; Providing for Severability; and Providing for an Effective Date (First Reading) CAD #023/06

PURPOSE:

Request the City Commission adopt on First Reading the attached ordinance for wastewater treatment impact fees.

BACKGROUND:

Whenever a community experiences significant growth, there is a corresponding stress on the infrastructure that must be addressed. One of the most crucial and costly areas of impact entails the water and wastewater utilities. Impact fees are designed to assign growth related capital costs to developers responsible for such costs.

On October 15, 2008, the City of Hallandale Beach adopted water impact fees and wastewater transmission impact fees. However, wastewater treatment impact fees were not established at that time because the capital costs of Hollywood’s Southern Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant had not been fully evaluated. Subsequently, City staff has worked with its consultant and Hollywood to evaluate these costs and determine the appropriate wastewater treatment impact fee.

If approved by the Commission, the existing transmission impact fee and the new treatment impact fee will be combined into a single wastewater impact fee to be assessed to new developments. This is similar to the methodology by which the water impact fee was created and is the normal industry standard.

DISCUSSION

According to the evaluation, the City of Hallandale Beach should charge as much as $1,205 per equivalent residential unit (ERU) for the wastewater treatment component. Staff recommends the City establish the rate for the current fiscal year at $1,100 per ERU, which is equivalent to $3.49 per gallon per day (GPD).

The impact fee rate adopted by the Commission on October 15, 2008 was $572 per ERU for the transmission component of wastewater. The addition of the wastewater transmission and the wastewater treatment components will increase this fee to a total rate of $1,672 per ERU, which is equivalent to $5.31 per GPD. The Accrued Guaranteed Revenue Charge is being adjusted accordingly.

The following table provides a comparison of the proposed impact fees with those of other local municipalities.

Comparison of Impact Fees (1)

Water Wastewater Combined

City of Pompano Beach $700 $700 $1,400

City of Deerfield Beach $1,150 $540 $1,690

City of Delray Beach $788 $1,084 $1,872

City of Margate $390 $1,610 $2,000

City of Dania Beach $1,557 $725 $2,282

City of Hollywood $624 $1,770 $2,394

City of Sunrise $1,500 $1,350 $2,850

City of Hallandale Beach $1,318 $1,672 $2,990

(Proposed Rates) (2)

Village of Royal Palm Beach $1,425 $2,000 $3,425

City of West Palm Beach $2,190 $1,270 $3,460

City of Tamarac $1,700 $2,200 $3,900

City of Pembroke Pines $2,120 $1,980 $4,100

City of Boca Raton $5,195 $4,168 $9,363

Other Utilities’ Average $1,612 $1,616 $3,228

(1) Amounts reflect charges anticipated to be collected for the typical residential unit or

1 ERU derived from a survey of Florida utilities obtained in July 2008.

(2) Amount proposed to be effective ninety (90) days from the date of the first hearing.

RECOMMENDATION:

The City Commission adopt on First Reading the attached ordinance for wastewater treatment impact fees and set Second Reading for September 16, 2009.

Prepared By: ______

Earl S. King, III

Deputy Director, Utilities and Engineering

Reviewed:

______

D. Mike Good, City Manager Date

_____Approved _____Disapproved _____Hold for Discussion

09/02/09

8A. CITY OF HALLANDALE BEACH

MEMORANDUM

DATE: August 18, 2009

TO: D. Mike Good, City Manager

FROM: William M. Brant, P.E., Director of Utilities and Engineering

SUBJECT: A Resolution of the City of Hallandale Beach, Florida to Support Broward County's Off-Shore Erosion Control Structure Project and to Affirm the City's Commitment to Participate and to be Included in the Process of Determining the Type and Placement of Off-Shore Structures to Prevent the Erosion of the City's Beach AR #23/09 & CAD #035/97

PURPOSE:

To support Broward County’s efforts to control beach erosion through implementation of an off-shore erosion control structure project and to support City’s participation in the planning process.

BACKGROUND:

During the August 5, 2009 Commission meeting, the Commission discussed its commitment to beach erosion protection. The Commission directed staff to draft a resolution in support of Broward County’s proposed off-shore erosion control structure project.

DISCUSSION:

Staff has been in communication with Stephen Higgins, Beach Erosion Administrator for Broward County Environmental Protection and Growth Management Department, and has discussed in some depth the proposed project. The County’s consultants have done some impressive modeling of the sediment transport dynamics along the coast in Broward, and have concluded that, as expected, the south Hollywood/Hallandale Beach shoreline is an erosive stretch of beach. Of particular interest was their analysis of the offshore reef configuration in this area, which suggests that several gaps and humps in the ocean floor likely contribute to wave focusing in the area and the resulting erosion.

The consultants modeled a couple of generic nearshore structure configurations along the south Broward shoreline under a year’s worth of wave and sediment movement conditions. The results of the structure modeling seem to indicate that in the Hallandale Beach area, structures can indeed help slow erosion in targeted locations. The County and its consultants are hoping to be able to fine-tune the design of potential structures so that they slow the movement of sand without permanently capturing the material.

A final report is anticipated by November.

Because the Commission considers the prevention of erosion on its beaches to be a high priority, the City is prepared to work together with the County to maximize the effectiveness of the project.