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June 28, 2010
Voting Members and Alternates
Wholesale Customer Advisory Committee
Re: Agreement for Water Service and Final Adoption Schedules
Enclosed please find the final draft of the revised Agreement for Water Service. Since
my last letter we have met with a group of Customers and made two significant
changes:
Street Rental – Definition 1.25 establishes the Street Rental percentage at 5%. Street
Rental can only be increased one percentage point every five years beginning in 2016
and shall never be increased to exceed the percentage charged to the natural gas
franchised utility in Fort Worth or Fort Worth Retail customers, whichever is less. Street
Rental will also not be charged on PILOT.
Transfers from General Fund – In Section 6.1.2 we struck from the list of items included
in System Cost “any lawfully imposed transfers from the General Fund” and instead
specifically listed Street Rental and Payment in Lieu of Taxes.
We believe these changes have substantially addressed the concerns of a number of
Customers. Three copies of the final Agreement are enclosed along with a redline copy
showing the changes discussed above.
As shown in the attached redline of the agreement, showing changes from the draft that
was sent to you on June 11, 2010, we have included several other clean-up changes.
We updated the table of contents, added two missing “§” symbols in 2.6; added
“including pipelines” to clarify a question about the term “special facilities” in § 3.3; and
changed the termination date from September “31” to September 30 in Article 9.
We would like for all Customers to take the Agreement to their Governing Bodies in
July. We need to have them approved by July 31 so that we may proceed with approval
by the Fort Worth City Council. Please contact Skipper Shook at 817-392-8402 or by
email at Robert.Shook@fortworthgov.org with your expected Approval Date. Once
your Governing Body has approved, please return the three executed copies to him at
Water Department, 1000 Throckmorton, Fort Worth, TX 76102.
June 9, 2010
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Please feel free to call me at 817-392-8246, and thank you for your continued work on
this process.
Yours truly,
S. Frank Crumb, P.E.
Water Director, City of Fort Worth
Cc: Fernando Costa, Assistant City Manager