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San Fernando moves forward with water shutoff policy; tax-roll assessment to be studied with rate review
Summary
City staff will begin enforcing the council-approved residential water shutoff process while studying whether delinquent accounts could instead be placed on the property tax roll as part of an upcoming Prop 218/rate study.
The San Fernando City Council directed staff to begin implementing the council-approved residential water shutoff procedures and to return with more analysis on a property-tax assessment alternative as part of the city's upcoming water and sewer rate study.
City staff and legal advisers told the council that state law permits local agencies to collect delinquent water charges via the property tax roll under Health and Safety Code provisions, but the city would first need to invoke that authority under the Prop 218 process. City Attorney Richard Padilla said, "it is typically done incident to…
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