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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1993-04-20 MINUTES CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS ADVISORY COMMITTEE II r. APRIL 20, 1993 The Capital Improvements Advisory Committee meeting was called to order by Chairman Young at 7:20 P.M. in the Council Chambers for the consideration of scheduled items. MEMBERS & STAFF PRESENT MEMBERS ABSENT Ronald Young George Zahn Jack Hill Carl Tyson Billy Owens J.C. Jones John Deithloff Joe Hennig, Director of Development & Operations Rod Tyler, City Planner Paul Kruckemeyer, City Engineer Barbara Chambers, Staff Secretary VISITORS Lewis McLain Phil Philipp I. PRESENTATION OF THE 1993 LAND USE ASSUMPTIONS. CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS PLAN FOR WATER AND SEWER AND THE PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO THE WATER AND SEWER IMPACT FEES. Chairman Young called Rod Tyler, City Planner, to introduce the first item on the agenda. Mr. Tyler referred to the Impact Fee Report that had previously been presented to the Capital Improvements Advisory Committee. This report was prepared by staff and the consultants that assisted the City. The preparation of this three (3) year update of the Land Use Capital Improvements is in order to facilitate the continued use of the Impact Fees. Mr. Tyler reported that this is to comply with State Statute requirements. He stated that staff is recom- mending amendments to the Impact Fees accordingly. Mr. Tyler introduced Lewis McLain, Fiscal Planning Consultant, to make his presentation to the advisory committee. Mr. McLain presented the requirements to adopt an Impact Fee. They are as follows: 1. ) Determine the capital facilities to be included. He stated that those will be the same as adopted in 1990 which is water and sewer only. 2. ) Determine the service. A service area is basically defined as the City Limits of the City of Euless. CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS ADVISORY COMMITTEE, APRIL 20, 1993 - PAGE TWO 3. ) Define a Standard Service Unit. The definition of a standard service unit is basically a 3/4" residential meter, that is also sometime defined as a living unit equivalent or LUE. 4.) Develop Land Use Assumptions. Currently there is about 4,703 acres of developed land in Euless with a residential population of approximately 38,900 and an employment population of 9,488. There are 3,099 acres of single family residential, 724 acres of multi-family residential and 880 acres of commercial and industrial development. He summarized the number of meters that are connected to the system which totals 10,762 meters. When this is applied to the definition of a service unit he stated that they could calculate, what is now connected to the system, being 13,422 water service unit equivalents and 11,105 waste water units. 5. ) Develop a Capital Improvement Plan that matches the ten-year growth period. He stated that Rod Tyler had developed a growth analysis that is projected to occur in the next ten years. This includes the catego- ries of residential population, employment population and acres of development. The projected service units to be added in the next ten years is 1,502 service unit equivalents to water and 1,243 service unit equivalents to waste water. This represents a 9% growth. 6.) Calculate a Maximum Impact Fee and a Proposed Impact Fee. The maximum Impact Fee that could be charged by the City of Euless is $5,351 per rw service unit equivalent. This is broken down into water portions of $2,367 and waste water portions are $2,984. This fee is in accordance with the legislative requirements. He further stated that he shows in his report that the current Impact Fee is set to be $1,000 which is $392 for water and $608 for waste water. When this fee was set in June of 1990, it represented about 17% of the maximum fee based on the recalcu- lated maximum fee, $1,000 would equate to 19% recovery of maximum cost. He stated that they are proposing that the City Council consider a recovery percentage of 25% which would cause an increase in the Impact Fee, overall, to be $1,338. The breakdown of this is $592 for water and $746 for waste water. He further stated that it is of his opinion, that there are no conditions that exist that are set forth in legislation that would cause the City of Euless, at this time to be in a situation to do a refund on any fees that they have collected. 7. ) Conduct public hearings with proper notices and adopt the Impact Fee and certain elements of the process. He asked that the Capital Improvement Advisory Committee submit their comments to the City Council no later than five (5) business days before the Public Hearing where the Fees will be considered. He stated that the law requires that consideration be given to recalculation of fees once every three years. However, City Council can elect to redo and/or raise the fee to the maximum level at any time during that three year period. Lewis McLain informed the Advisory Board that their action for this meeting would be to receive the report and review it. He asked that they make com- ments and submit them to the City staff. CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS ADVISORY COMMITTEE, APRIL 20, 1993 Ala. Chairman Young invited Mr. Phil Philipp with Knowlton, English and Flowers to give a brief overview of proposed Capital Water and Sewer Improvements. Mr. Philipp stated that his firm has been working with the requirements in the Local Government Code - Chapter 395, that dictates what information that is to be contained in the Capital Improvement Plans. Mr. Philipp referred to the tables and information in the Impact Fee Report. He stated that the current system will handle the demand and will maintain 35 psi . He reported that they had designed the system for long range and with the future population it will also maintain 35 psi . With an additional demand of fire flow placed on the system they require a minimum of 20 psi at any point in the City under fire code conditions plus peak flow. He reported that a total assessable project cost of water lines within the City of $738,657. Rod Tyler, summarized that the information used in this forecasts came from the Council of Government's forecasts on population growth and acres. With this information, Phil Philipp was able to develop his long range forecast for the next ten years. Chairman Young reminded the board to make their comments in writing and asked staff to develop a form for the comments. Mr. Joe Hennig, Director of Development and Operations informed the Commission that they would have time to make their comments before the public hearing on lbw May 17, 1993. A motion was made by John Deithloff and seconded by J.C. Jones to accept the Impact Fee Report and for staff to prepare a Resolution for the Capital Improvements Advisory Committees' action of recommended approval to be for- warded to City Council. The vote was as follows: Ayes: Young, Jones, Deithloff, Owens, Hill Nays: None The motion carried. There being no further business the meeting adjourned at 7:55 P.M. C airman Ronal• Yo g /dw4/barb/mi, 20/cip