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Pasco proposes multi-year water-sewer rate increases to fund two wastewater plants, seeks public input
Summary
County staff and consultant presented a four-year rate plan — a 3.75% increase in FY2026 followed by 4.75% in subsequent years — to fund operating costs and capital projects including two wastewater-treatment-plant expansions; staff will hold a second public hearing Sept. 3 in Dade City before adoption.
Pasco County staff and consultant Stantec presented a four-year rate plan on Aug. 19 proposing a 3.75% increase to water and sewer rates in fiscal 2026 followed by 4.75% increases in FY2027–29. The proposal is intended to recover operating costs, meet capital-improvement plan needs and fund two wastewater-treatment-plant expansions identified in the county’s capital program.
Tracy Overtoher, interim director of Public Infrastructure, Fiscal & Business Administration, introduced the item and said the package includes a revenue-sufficiency analysis, cost-allocation adjustments and rate-design…
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