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Leon Valley town-hall survey prompts council to rehear water, sewer rate options
Summary
City officials reviewed results of a recent town-hall and online survey and spent more than an hour weighing several ways to raise water and sewer revenue, directing staff to return with an adjusted rate model that avoids a shortfall in the first two years.
Leon Valley city staff presented results of a recent town-hall and online survey on community priorities and followed with a council discussion of several water- and sewer-rate proposals that would raise revenue for aging infrastructure.
The presentation showed differing respondent profiles between in-person and online participants and highlighted recurring priorities — parks, public safety and water infrastructure — that city staff say will inform the capital-budget draft the council will review next. The council then considered multiple rate scenarios for the city’s water and sewer enterprise funds, including a steep 250% option that councilors dismissed and lower, multi-year increases tied to either the city’s existing usage tiers or San Antonio Water System (SAWS) tiers.
City staff emphasized that the city’s water system has aging infrastructure and that borrowing for a larger capital package (the staff example used a $10 million target) would produce better unit pricing than…
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