2008-002and
ORDINANCE NO. 2008- 2
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 13.04.290 OF
TITLE 13 OF THE VILLAGE OF BUFFALO GROVE MUNICIPAL CODE
WHEREAS, the Village of Buffalo Grove is a Home Rule Unit pursuant to the Illinois Constitution of 1970;
WHEREAS, the County of Lake provides for certain sanitary and storm water management and treatment
services for all system customers within the Lake County portion of the Village of Buffalo Grove pursuant to an
"Agreement for Sewage Disposal" dated April 18, 1972; and
WHEREAS, said Agreement sets forth the requirement for the Village to assess and collect on behalf of the
County of Lake rates and fees necessary to offset the expense of treating and disposing of sanitary system sewage
generated; and
WHEREAS, the County of Lake has determined that it is necessary to revise its user rates and fees for their
operational and maintenance expenses incurred in treating and disposing of sanitary system sewage within the Southeast
service region, which includes Lake County Buffalo Grove; and
WHEREAS, to that effect, the Lake County Board approved, on November 13, 2007, an ordinance amending
rates over a three year period, for all wholesale and retail water and sewer systems in the County.
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT ORDAINED BY THE PRESIDENT AND BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF
THE VILLAGE OF BUFFALO GROVE, COOK AND LAKE COUNTIES, ILLINOIS, the
following:
SECTION 1. Section 13.04.290 A.3., Sewer User Charges, of the Village of Buffalo Grove Municipal Code is
amended to read as follows:
3. Service Charge. There shall be a service charge of twenty -three dollars and ten cents per
month for each user /consumer serviced by the Lake County sewer system beginning March 1,
2008 and ending February 28, 2009. There shall be a service charge of twenty -nine dollars
and ten cents for each user /consumer serviced by the Lake County sewer system beginning
March 1, 2009 and ending February 28, 2010. There shall be a service charge of thirty
dollars and no cents per month for each user /consumer serviced by the Lake County sewer
system beginning March 1, 2010. Cook County user /consumers are taxed for sewer
treatment via tax levied by the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago.
For commercial, institutional and industrial user /consumers serviced by the Lake County
sewer system, the rate will be twenty -three dollars and ten cents for every seven thousand five
hundred gallons of metered service (effective March 1, 2008 through February 28, 2009)
twenty -nine dollars and ten cents (effective March 1, 2009 through February 28, 20 10) and
thirty dollars and no cents (effective March 1, 2010). The fee will be calculated to the
nearest tenth equivalent of measure.
SECTION 2. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage and approval in the
manner provided by law as of March 1, 2008.
AYES: 6 — Braiman, Glover, Berman, Kahn, Trilling, Rubin
NAYES: 0 — None
ABSENT: 0 — None
PASSED: January 7 , 2008. APPROVED: January 7 , 2008.
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