Title
Resolution authorizing the execution of a twenty (20) year Sewage Disposal Service Contract with Miami-Dade County.
Department Head Recommendation
Approval.
Brief History
The City’s sanitary sewer system is an engineered system of City owned and operated pipes and pump stations that are used for the collection and conveyance of sewage that is discharged into Miami-Dade County’s sewage transmission facilities located at S.W. 37th Avenue and 28th Street. On April 28, 1965 the City originally entered into a Sewer Service Contract with the Department of Water and Sewers of the City of Miami. This contract was assumed by the Miami-Dade Water and Sewer Authority, as successor to the Department of Water and Sewers, and resulted in a new Sewage Disposal Service Contract dated May 3, 1979. Miami-Dade County, as legal successor in interest to the Authority, has assumed all the rights, duties, and obligations of the Authority and continues to provide sewage disposal service to the City pursuant to that now expired May 3, 1979 contract with the Authority. Miami-Dade County and the City desire to enter into this wholesale Sewage Disposal Service Contract so that the County can continue to render sewage disposal service to the City. This new contract allows the City to continue to provide sanitary sewer services to its residents and businesses as it has in the past. Miami-Dade County’s current wholesale wastewater rate structure will remain unchanged under this new agreement until such time that the Board of County Commissioners approves further changes. Funding for the City’s sewage disposal is provided by the Coral Gables Sanitary Sewer System’s monthly and quarterly billings.