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Committee discusses reversing readiness-to-serve charges after vacancy complaints; staff asked to draft ordinance
Summary
The committee debated restoring the pre‑2024 ‘base charge’ approach after applying readiness-to-serve charges to all metered properties produced new bills and revenue; staff were asked to draft ordinance language to reverse applying the charge to inactive meters and present it to the committee.
The Infrastructure Committee on July 15 discussed reversing a 2024 change that applied a “readiness-to-serve” charge to all metered properties — including vacant or inactive accounts — and asked staff to draft ordinance language to return to a model where owners who take service offline are not billed the base charge.
Director Davis, utilities director, said the city began applying the readiness-to-serve charge in 2024 to fulfill an ordinance that historically existed but had not been consistently charged. Staff told the committee that charging readiness-to-serve to inactive accounts generates approximately $500,000 in additional revenue for water and about $500,000 for wastewater in the city’s forecasts; staff also said 97–98% of customers are active users and…
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