HomeMy WebLinkAboutbolton pt resolution.pdfMotion: Trustee Karns
Second: Trustee Riesman
To Pass Resolution #6956 to Approve the Amendment to the Southern Cayuga Lake Inter-municipal
Water Commission Agreement Increasing the Water Rate Charges and to Establish Such Amended
Water Rate Charges for the Village of Cayuga Heights.
WHEREAS, the Village of Cayuga Heights entered into an agreement of inter-municipal
cooperation with several other municipalities creating the Southern Cayuga Lake Inter -municipal Water
Commission ("SCLIWC") and authorizing the construction by such Commission of the Bolton Point water
treatment plant and related transmission and other facilities, which agreement was restated as of June 5,
1979, and which agreement has been subsequently amended from time to time (suc h agreement as so
amended being hereinafter referred to as the "SCLIWC Agreement"); and
WHEREAS, the SCLIWC Agreement included a schedule of the water rates to be charged, which
schedule has been amended from time to time; and
WHEREAS, the parties to the SCLIWC Agreement wish to amend the Agreement to increase the
water rates, and a copy of the proposed amendment has been submitted to this Board for its approval; and
WHEREAS, the Village of Cayuga Heights Board of Trustees finds it is in the best interests of the
Village of Cayuga Heights and its citizens to effect the proposed water rate increases;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT
RESOLVED, that the Village of Cayuga Heights Board of Trustees, in accordance with Article 8 of the
New York State Environmental Conservation Law - the State Environmental Quality Review Act
("SEQR") and 6 NYCRR Section 617.5, hereby determines that adoption of said proposed amendment and
the establishment of water rates constitute a Type II action, constituting "routine or continuing agency
administration and management, not including new programs or major reordering of priorities that may
affect the environment," and thus may be processed without further regard to SEQR; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Village of Cayuga Heights Board of Trustees hereby authorizes on its behalf
the execution of the proposed amendment to the SCLIWC Agreement submitted to this meeting, approving
thereby the amendment to the rate schedule so as to increase the water rates to be charged under the
SCLIWC Agreement generally from $2.87 per thousand gallons of water to $3.15 per thousand gallons of
water; and be it further
RESOLVED, that upon the approval by all required parties of the proposed amendmen t to the
SCLIWC Agreement setting the increased rate of $3.15 per thousand gallons of water, and concurrently
with the effective date of such amended rate as provided for in the approved amendment to the SCLIWC
Agreement, the Village of Cayuga Heights Board of Trustees hereby establishes the foregoing increased
rate as the base rate chargeable to each owner of property that is provided with water service by connecting
to the Village of Cayuga Heights Water System, all such water service charges being subjec t to the
additional water rate surcharge (currently 100%) imposed by the Village from time to time by resolution of
the Village Board of Trustees.
Aye Votes: Mayor Supron, Trustees: Crooker, Hamilton, Karns, Riesman, and Szekely