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City council weighs small-business relief after two boil-water notices, declines further action
Summary
Staff presented models used by other cities and three options — expand residential credit, switch to percentage credits or create a small-business relief grant — but council members expressed little appetite to pursue a new program and no formal relief program was adopted.
City staff presented examples from other Texas and U.S. cities and three possible responses after Victoria issued two boil-water notices totaling eight days in August, but council members signaled they do not want to pursue a new small-business relief program. Staff described options used elsewhere — a flat credit to bills, percentage-based credits, and small-business grant programs administered with a partner such as LiftFund — and explained the costs and administrative tradeoffs of each.
Staff member Mister Garza said Victoria already issued a $10 flat credit for single-family residential accounts after the recent notices and summarized how other cities responded. “We applied it to basically all the residential accounts…
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