Haslet advisory committee unanimously approves minutes, recommends city council accept biannual water and sewer impact-fee report

City of Haslet — At its July 29 meeting the City of Haslet Capital Improvements Advisory Committee unanimously approved minutes from the committee’s Jan. 28 meeting and voted to recommend that the City Council accept the biannual water and sewer impact-fee report and use available impact-fee funds for eligible projects.

The recommendation follows a staff outline of the biannual impact-fee report and a newly completed draft update to the impact-fee study. City staff member Roman described the packet as “a standard, biannual item” and said the report includes supporting documents listing building permits and a summary comparing actual collections to projections. “I will give you a handout of those preliminary study results so you can get a little bit better familiar with it,” Roman told the committee.

Why it matters: Impact fees collected for water and sewer are restricted to projects that increase capacity for future growth. Roman told the committee the fund balance as of the reporting period was about $3.1 million…