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Pensacola council adopts stormwater assessment after tense debate, 4-2
Summary
After weeks of questions about methodology, the Pensacola City Council voted 4-2 to adopt the city's annual stormwater service assessment for fiscal year 2025'026, keeping the assessment rate at $120.49 per equivalent stormwater unit (ESU) while agreeing to schedule follow-up review.
The Pensacola City Council on Aug. 14 adopted the city's annual stormwater service assessment for fiscal year 2025'026 by a 4-2 vote, keeping the assessment rate at $120.49 per equivalent stormwater unit (ESU) and approving the 2025 assessment roll.
Council members said they supported funding for stormwater management but were sharply divided over how the assessments are apportioned. Opponents said the current ESU-based categories are blunt and urged a property-by-property impervious-surface calculation; supporters said the city must preserve the program and can refine methodology through a workshop.
The assessment program, implemented in 2000, funds stormwater management services and facilities and is limited by law to those uses. The city said the rate of $120.49 per ESU is unchanged from the prior year and the assessments will generate about $5.2 million for fiscal 2025'026.…
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