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City Council Regular Meeting Minutes December 23, 2014 Page 3 supports the resolution. Councilmember Stille encouraged the community to welcome the Center to St. Anthony Village, noting the City will provide respect to the new neighbors. Councilmember Roth stated his initial position was he would not support this. He noted he had supported this the first time around and encouraged two other councilmembers to join him in the vote. He stated the City did violate RLUIPA and will support it at this time. 8 Councilmember Jenson stated his original vote on this was that it was a land use issue and he 9 will support approval of the resolution. 10 11 Mayor Faust stated this is a good time to welcome our new neighbors and the lack of 12 understanding should not cause us to have fear in our hearts or reject them. He noted that 13 everyone has the freedom to worship their God and practice the freedoms we have. Mayor Faust 14 welcomed the Center to St. Anthony on behalf of the Council and the City. 15 16 Motion carried unanimously. 17 18 B. Review Effect of Tiered -Water Rates on Conservation. 19 20 Finance Director Shelly Ruechert reviewed the City's 2014 Strategic plan includes seven broad 21 goals for which actions steps are developed each year. An action step supporting the goal `Build 22 and Cultivate Environmental Responsibility" was a review of the effect of tiered water rates on 23 conservation. Staff has completed a review of residential water consumption in years preceding 24 and following the implementation of tiered rates. The review process was as follows: 25 • Isolated periods of time where peak residential use occurs. 26 • Isolated the extreme water usage accounts. 27 • Tracked the historical water consumption by account during both peak and non -peak 28 periods for various consumption levels. 29 • Compared rainfall impact on water consumption levels within peak periods. 30 • Determined change in water usage by groups/periods before and after tiered rate 31 implementation. 32 33 Ms. Rueckert reviewed the review process yielded the following results: 34 • Extreme water users reduced their consumption by usage subsequent to the 35 implementation of tiered rates. 36 o 25.19% for peak period (July — Sept) 37 o 35.41% for spring/summer (April —Sept) 38 o 0.05% for winter usage (Oct — Mar) 39 • Single-family residential users as a group reduced their usage subsequent to tiered rate 40 implementation by 13.72%. This reduction equated to a savings of over 99 million 41 gallons in a three-year period. 42 • Median quarterly usage was reduced from 15,740 in 2008 to 12,976 in 2013. 43 • Mean quarterly usage was reduced from 17,490 in 2008 to 14,800 in 2013. 44 . Water consumption by all customer types was reduced by 13.81%, producing a total 45 savings of over 131 million gallons. 46