1. The City shall assess a surcharge for different classes of users of the City Culinary Water System, City Sewer System, and the City Pressurized Irrigation System.

2. The City Council shall establish the defining boundaries of each class of user.

3. The surcharge shall be established in an amount sufficient to cover the increased cost of providing culinary water service, sewer service, and/or pressurized irrigation service for each such user class, as determined by the City.

4. The City shall utilize the criteria determined to be appropriate by the City for the determination of each user class. A classification may be based upon geographical area, elevation of the property connected to the utility service, source of supply for culinary water service and/or pressurized irrigation water service, pumping costs for culinary water service, sewer service, and/or pressurized irrigation water service, or other factors as determined reasonable by the City Council.

5. The City shall review the surcharge rate not less often than every two (2) years and shall revise the surcharge rate as necessary to assure equity of the surcharge amount.

6. The City Council is designated a board of equalization of culinary water service, sewer service, and pressurized irrigation water service surcharge fees, to hear complaints and make corrections of any assessments deemed to be illegal, unequal, or unjust.

7. The surcharge shall distribute, to the extent determined by the City to be feasible and reasonable, the costs attributable to each user class in proportion to each user class's contribution to the special costs associated with providing City culinary water service City sewer service, and/or City pressurized irrigation service to each such user class. (Ord. 19-93, adopted, 1998)