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billings based on meter readings taken on or
after 11/1/78; ord. to be effective 10/1/78,
(1st reading 9/6/78)(continued from 9/20/78).
Commission,as rate -making body, made findings,
based on the information provided and testi-
mony given by City's expert, as follows: 1)
An increase of 9 (from 48 to 57) per 1,000
gallons, was warranted for municipal consumers;
2) An increase of 10 (from 48 to 58) per
1,000 gallons, was warranted for non -municipal
consumers. Further action deferred to 9/29/78
at 4:30 p.m.
Ord. #78-2137 adopted, increasing schedule of 9/29/78
rates for water supply service to municipalities
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to 57 per 1,000 gallons (application of in-
creased rates shall abide the event of current
litigation in courts) and to non -municipal con-
sumers to 53 per 1,000 gallons; increasing
minimum monthly service charges; and providing
for an effective date of Oct. 1, 1978. Prior
to adoption of above ord., a motion to provide
for an increase in non -municipal consumers'
rate to 52 per 1,000 gallons, failed of pas-
sage. 9/29/78
(NOT ON AGENDA) City Atty. submitted a report 10/19/78
concerning a Third District Court of Appeal
judgment dated Oct. 17, 1978, reversing the
judgment of Circuit Court in favor of the
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City, and setting forth that this opinion did
not hold that City was not entitled to the
monies owed by satellite cities, but merely
that only the Metro Dade Co. Water & Sewer
Brd. has jurisdiction to fix water rates to be
charged them. Mr. Joseph Weil, atty. for N.
Bay Village, appeared and requested Commission
reconsideration of Ord. No. 78-2137, adopted
Sept. 29, 1978, and to delete those portions
pertaining to rates for service to municipali-
ties, which he alleged were in violation of
the Temporary Injunction. The City Atty.
stated that such action is not necessary since
that ord. includes the notation that application
of the increased rates shall abide the event of 10/19/78