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Subcommittee reviews half‑year residential and nonresidential water budgets; allocations remain under caps
Summary
Staff reported that for the Jan. 1–June 19, 2025 tracking period the semiannual residential and nonresidential budgets (each 25 acre‑feet) have substantial remaining capacity: residential approvals used 7.36 acre‑feet; nonresidential approvals used 14.93 acre‑feet.
City of Prescott staff on July 1 presented semiannual residential and nonresidential water‑budget tracking data to the Council Subcommittee on Water Issues, showing that administrative approvals to date remain within the budgets set for the period.
Brian Reese, Water Resources Manager in Community Development, told the subcommittee that "the residential budget was set at 25 acre feet and the non residential budget was set at 25 acre feet" for the January 1–June 30, 2025 cycle. Reese said that between Jan. 1 and June 19 the city administratively approved six residential projects totaling 7.36 acre‑feet (including four single‑family homes, one senior living center and an administratively approved eight‑unit multifamily project), leaving about 17.64 acre‑feet remaining in the residential semiannual budget.
On nonresidential allocations Reese said eight projects were approved during the tracking period totaling 14.93 acre‑feet, with the largest nonresidential allocation going to an Embry‑Riddle student union project; that left roughly 10.07 acre‑feet remaining for the semiannual nonresidential budget. Reese also presented a tracking spreadsheet for existing contracts showing that between June 1 and June 19 staff logged 23 administratively approved, existing‑contract projects totaling 4.9 acre‑feet.
Council members asked staff about fee applicability. Will West, Operations Manager for Community Development, clarified that projects with only an administrative water allocation but without completed permit advancement are subject to the 2025 impact fees: "they would be subject to the 2025 impact fees," he said. Staff clarified that to qualify for prior (2024) impact fees, permit applications would have needed to be in by January 1, 2025.
Reese and staff noted the figures are a snapshot through June 19 and that a few administrative approvals might have been added between June 19 and the date of the presentation; staff said the final numbers are likely the same or similar to what was presented. The subcommittee took the presentation as information; no formal action was requested beyond approval of the previous meeting minutes at the start of the meeting (minutes were approved by voice vote).
