SUBJECT: An Ordinance to approve a Utility Service Agreement between the City of Houston and Bissonnet Municipal Utility District.
RECOMMENDATION: Approve an ordinance authorizing the Mayor to execute a Utility Service Agreement between the City of Houston and Bissonnet Municipal Utility District.
Specific Explanation:
Bissonnet Municipal Utility District (“District”) requests that the City of Houston (the “City”) consent to allow the District to provide water and wastewater service to a tract of land (the “Tract”) consisting of 1.6289 acres of land, which is located within the boundaries of the City. The City does not maintain sanitary sewer service to the Tract. The District desires to provide such service and has sought the consent of the City, as is required by law.
The owners of the Tract will construct all the facilities necessary to provide services to the Tract and will obtain the City’s approval of the plans and specifications of the facilities prior to construction. The District will operate and maintain all facilities necessary to serve the Tract until such time as the City annexes the District or otherwise assumes the provisions of service to the Tract.
The District will establish the rates it charges for water and sewer service to the customers within the Tract according to the terms of a water and wastewater disposal contract to be agreed to by the District and the customers within the Tract. The City may withdraw its consent under the contract provisions and initiate the provision of City water service or sewer service or both to the Tract.
c: Yvonne Forrest
Jason Iken, P.E.
Fazle Rabbi, P.E.
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Dale A. Rudick, P.E., Director
Director of Public Works and Engineering