Subcommittee hears mid‑year update on 2022 water management policy budgets; residential use low so far

City of Prescott water staff provided the subcommittee an update Sept. 2 on the semiannual water budgets set by the city’s amended 2022 water policies. The update covered the budget period July 1 through Dec. 31, 2025 and summarized administrative approvals to date.

Brian Reese, Water Resources Manager, said the budget was set at 25 acre‑feet for residential projects and 25 acre‑feet for nonresidential projects for the period. “The budget was set for 07/01/2025 through 12/31/2025 for residential projects at 25 acre feet per year and was also set, for nonresidential projects at 25 acre feet per year,” Reese said. For residential approvals through Aug. 21, staff reported three single‑family residential administrative approvals totaling 0.7 acre‑feet, leaving 24.3 acre‑feet of the residential budget unallocated.

On the nonresidential side, Reese said two projects (a coffee shop and an office building complex) were administratively approved and together used 1.26 acre‑feet, leaving 23.75 acre‑feet of the nonresidential budget for the period. Staff also provided a third table showing projects approved under existing contractual commitments; those approvals totaled 1.73 acre‑feet in this reporting window.

Subcommittee members had no further questions and took no formal action. Reese clarified the accounting method: projects under existing contracts bypass the semiannual budget process and are tallied separately. The presentation was for information and will be part of future budget and demand monitoring reports to the subcommittee.