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Department of Utilities
Reference: A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BRIGHTON, COLORADO, ACTING BY AND THROUGH ITS WATER ENTERPRISE, APPROVING THAT MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING (MOU) BY AND BETWEEN THE CITY OF BRIGHTON AND BRIGHTON SCHOOL DISTRICT 27J REGARDING NON-POTABLE IRRIGATION CONNECTION AND SERVICE, AND AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR TO EXECUTE THE MOU ON BEHALF OF THE CITY.
To: Mayor Richard N. McLean and Members of City Council
Through: Manuel Esquibel, City Manager
Prepared By: Curtis Bauers, Utilities Director
Date Prepared: August 3, 2015
PURPOSE
To consider the Memorandum of Understanding to allow the City of Brighton to assist the 27J School District in converting its irrigation usage to the non-potable supply, thereby eventually reducing the irrigation usage rate charged to 27J, and immediately relieving that component of demand from the Water Enterprises potable supply.
BACKGROUND
Historically, the City of Brighton has had a special water usage rate charged to schools. This rate was eliminated in the 2015 Rate Schedule. The true Cost-of-Service rate analysis performed in fall of 2014 was unable to support the separate rate which had previously been in place for schools, and the small number of schools made it unrepresentative to attempt to establish a new rate for the customer class, 'schools'. For that reason, the School District 27J was faced with a fairly substantial increase in the irrigation rate that would be charged beginning in 2015. In an effort to assist 27J with this change, as well as to reduce our overall demands on the potable system, staff evaluated the possibility of utilizing the non-potable system for on-going school demands. As a result, we have determined that four separate 27J locations may reasonably be converted to be supplied by the non-potable system.
These sites are generally known as the two Brighton High School baseball fields, Friendship Park, and landscaping, park and playgroun...
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