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Staff outlines tax-roll and water-bill options to recover CAP costs; board schedules more outreach
Summary
Staff presented two main collection options for the Carpinteria Advanced Purification Project's recovery: placing fixed charges on property tax bills or on water bills. Staff provided illustrative per-meter estimates, cautioned that numbers are preliminary, and said extensive public outreach will precede any Prop 218 process.
Staff presented two alternative methods to recover CAP-related capital costs: (1) place a fixed charge on property tax bills collected through the tax roll, or (2) recover costs via the district's water bills (meter-based fixed charges), or a hybrid of the two. Mesa (staff) outlined the mechanics, examples and outreach plan and stressed these figures were preliminary and would require a cost-of-service study and Prop 218 public process before adoption.
Mesa explained how a parcel-based tax-roll charge would be allocated to meter "equivalents" using American Water Works Association (AWWA) capacity ratios so different meter sizes carry proportionate shares of the fixed charge. As a simplified illustration drawn from staff slides, Mesa presented a hypothetical total…
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