Water Accountability and Equity Act - Modifications For the purpose of clarifying tenants’ access to programs at the Department of Public Works; protecting against conflicts of interest by employees at the Office of Water-Customer Advocacy and Appeals and by hearing officers and their overseers at the Environmental Review Board; improving and specifying data collection metrics by the Office of Water-Customer Advocacy and Appeals; clarifying a customer’s right to dispute determinations by the Department of Public Works before the Department, the Office, or the ECB; deleting the Director of Public Works or the Director’s designee from the list of members of the Committee for Office Oversight and replacing that member with the Mayor or the Mayor’s designee; modifying the effective date of the “Water Accountability and Equity Act”, as enacted by Ordinance 20-336 and modified in part by this Ordinance; mandating the publication for public comment of all proposed new or amended rules and regulations governing the operations of the Office of Customer Advocacy or ECB hearings or restricting the rights granted customers under the Water Accountability and Equity Act and this Ordinance; suspending water service cut-offs and the imposition of service restoration fees until the Water Accountability and Equity Act, as amended by this Ordinance, is fully effective; correcting and clarifying related provisions; and providing for special effective dates for certain provisions and activities.

Committee

City Council

Introduced

October 5, 2020

Passed

December 7, 2020

Enactment no.

20-468