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UTILITIES
AVERAGE MONTHLY RESIDENTIAL UTILITY BILL
The current monthly bill for an average home user is $57.20 and will not change for FY01. There is no residential rate increase proposed for Water, Sanitary Sewers or Solid Waste. This is the third consecutive year that the City has been able to operate without a rate increase. This once again allows us to maintain utility rates lower than many local jurisdictions.
Utility Rates / Average Residential User
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Utility | FY99 | FY00 | FY01
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Water | $10.40 | $10.40 | $10.40
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Sanitary Sewers | 27.80 | 27.80 | 27.80
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Solid Waste | 19.00 | 19.00 | 19.00
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Total | $57.20 | $57.20 | $57.20
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VEHICLES
In FY1999 the City began a long process of upgrading it's vehicle fleet. The first part identified was to increase the police marked and unmarked fleet so that each officer had a take-home car. This goal will be reached in FY2001 when the marked fleet reaches its authorization of 741 vehicles and the unmarked units get to 226 units. Beginning in FY2002 one-seventh of the marked and unmarked vehicles will be replaced annually.
The second part was to provide sufficient annual funding for sedans and light trucks in the General Fund departments so that they would be replaced on a seven-year cycle. This part was also initiated in FY1999 and the program was extended to the Enterprise Funded departments in FY2000. For FY2001 the remaining vehicles, heavy-duty and specialized equipment, is being addressed. Annual funding for the General Fund department's heavy-duty fleet is being increased from $800,000 to $1,800,000 and for Specialized Equipment we will introduce pooling and/or leasing.
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DID YOU KNOW?
- In 1885, the Tampa City Council authorized the formation of a paid fire department. Its budget of $18,000 funded 22 full time firefighters housed at five fire stations.
- Cost comparison of Tampa Fire Rescue vehicles from early 1900's to today; ambulance = $5,000 to $115,000; aerials = $30,000 to $600,000; and engines (pumpers) = $12,000 to $280,000.
- 19,500 adults play softball in the Recreation Department's league.
- The Tampa Police Department posts traffic advisories and current calls for service on
links to its Web page at www.tampagov.net/dept_police. It updates the traffic information every 10 minutes throughout the day and the dispatched calls every 15 minutes.
- The City has 832 miles of sidewalks including the world's largest continuous sidewalk-6 miles. The cost to replace them in today's dollars would exceed $71 million.
- The Construction Services Center conducted 127,650 on site inspections; issued 35,833 construction permits; and conducted 15,376 commercial and residential plan reviews.
- It costs the City $439,447 for electric power charges to operate the 552 Traffic Signals in the City.
- It costs the City $3 million annually for electric power charges to light 31,326 street lights.
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