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Tails
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 Posted - 02/23/2011 : 4:00:56 PM
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February 22, 2011
City of Everett, Massachusetts
CITY COUNCIL
Offered By:
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JOINT CONVENTION
Bill Number: JC005-11
Bill Type:
February 17, 2011
Honorable City Council
484 Broadway, Room 38
Everett, MA 02149
Ladies and Gentlemen:
In accordance with the provisions of Section 14 of the
Everett City Charter, I hereby call a Joint Convention of
the Everett City Council as follows:
Date: Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Time: 6:00 PM
Location: Peter J. McCarren Memorial Chambers in
City Hall, 3rd Floor, Everett, Massachusetts 02149
Subject:
1. To present the FY12 Water/ Sewer Enterprise
Budget and recommend that the following sums be
appropriated to operate the water/sewer enterprise:
Direct:
MWRA water: $4,126,571
MWRA sewer: $6,968,650
Salaries: $369,730
Expenses: $421,801
Debt: $607,849
Extra/ Unforeseen: $50,000
Budgeted Surplus:$0
Subtotal: $12,544,601
Indirect:
Health Insurance: $90,430
FICA: $5,361
Pensions: $33,275
Auditing Department: $14,831
Treasurer/ Collector: $53,431
Subtotal: $197,328
Total: $12,741,929
$12,544,601 from Enterprise Earnings
$0 from Retained Earnings
$197,328 to be raised and appropriated in the general
fund operating budget and allocated to the enterprise
fund for funding.
Respectfully submitted,
Carlo DeMaria, Jr.
Mayor
Cc: Mr. Michael Matarazzo, City Clerk
Ms. Caroline McCorry, Everett City Council Office
Posted in accordance with the provisions of M.G.L.,
Chapter 39, Sections 23A,B, C on 2/17/2011 at
11:08AM. Attest: Michael Matarazzo, City Clerk.
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tetris
Moderator
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Posted - 03/02/2012 : 7:09:23 PM
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2/23/12
The Honorable City Council
484 Broadway
Everett, MA 02149
Dear Honorable Members,
In accordance with the provisions of Section 14 of the Everett City Charter, I hereby call a special meeting to hold a Joint Convention of the Common Council and Board of Alderman to be held as follows
Date: Monday, February 27, 2012
Time: 6:00 PM
Location: Peter J. McCarren Memorial Chambers in City Hall, Everett, Massachusetts 02149
Subject:
1. To present the FY 2013 Water/Sewer Enterprise Budget and recommend that the following sums be appropriated to operate the water/sewer enterprise:
Direct:
MWRA Water: $4,340,621.00
MWRA Sewer: $7,322,281.00
Salaries: $529,791.14
Expenses: $719,750.00
Debt: $616,930.00
Extraordinary & Unforeseen: $50,000.00
Budgeted Surplus: $0.00
Subtotal $13,579,373.14
Indirect:
Health Insurance: $100,000.00
FICA: $7,108.00
Pensions: $44,122.00
OPEB: $30,000.00
Other Insurances: $14,000.00
Departmental Support: $301,363.00
Subtotal $496,593.00
Capital $130,000.00
Main Replacement $500,000.00
Total: $14,705,966.14
$14,209,373.14 from Water and Sewer Enterprise Rates and Charges
$496,593 to be raised and appropriated in the general fund operating budget and allocated to the Water and Sewer Enterprise Fund for funding.
Sincerely,
Carlo DeMaria, Jr.
Mayor
Sincerely,
Melissa Murphy-Rodrigues, Esq.
Mayor Carlo DeMaria Jr.
Chief of Staff
City of Everett
484 Broadway, Room 31
Everett, MA 02149
617-394-2270
JOINT CONVENTION HELD, REFERRED TO THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN.
MEETING ADJOURNED AT 6:51PM. |
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tetris
Moderator
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Posted - 03/02/2012 : 9:06:31 PM
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I was going to pull a "Topix" and start a new thread called "Don't Believe Everything You Hear or Read". But I found this thread instead and since it it only had last year's Water and Sewer (W & S) Budget posted in it, I posted the meeting report from this year's W & S Budget joint convention so that we could do a little budget analysis. I would have used the budget documents that were presented last Monday night but those don't seem to be available to the general public. So I apologize in advance if I don't match those numbers contained in those documents exactly.
There's a couple of other pieces of information that would be good to be aware of for this discussion. Here is a link to a document on the MWRA website that shows actual assessments from FY12 and estimates of FY13 assesments (You must be logged in to see this link.). The other thing that would probably be good to know for this discussion is that the City Council cut $120,000 from last year's W & S budget, $100,000 from Emergency Repairs and $20,000 from Extra/Unforeseen.
Using the numbers we have available, the W & S FY13 proposed budget is going up almost $2.1 million or 16.51% from the actual FY12 W&S budget approved by the City Council. The assessment from the MWRA is going up by either 5.12% or 5.4%, depending on how you look at it, but not the 10% that was mentioned Monday night or in the Advocate.
The percentage the assessments are going up depends on the numbers that you compare the FY13 premilinary assessments to. If you compare them to the numbers that the city budgeted for in FY12, the percentage is less because the city budgeted for almost $30K more than what the actual MWRA assesments turned out to be.
Again, comparing the FY13 MWRA preliminary assesments to the city's FY12 city budgeted assesments, the assessments are going up almost $568K. But the total proposed FY'13 W & S budget is going up almost $2.1 million from last year's actual W & S budget. In round numbers, that means that the city is responsible for almost $1.5 million of the increase. The MWRA assessment increases are responsible for "only" 27.25% of the proposed increase.
As I said earlier in the post, don't always believe what you hear or read; spend some time to do the analysis yourself.
The other thing that bugged me (as it always does) about the Water and Sewer Joint Convention is the idea that replacing water meters means recouping lost revenue. Replacing water meters is more about fairness than anything else. An accurate water meter means that you pay your fair share. The only way that a new water meter becomes a way to increase revenue is that when you set the water rate knowing that you will be replacing meters and you don't make any type of adjustment for the additional amount of usage that you expect to meter by replacing a large number of water meters. Admittedly, that doesn't sound like a very easy task but I can't imagine that there isn't a way to do it somewhat accurately. |
Edited by - tetris on 03/02/2012 9:07:26 PM |
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