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Wasilla council trims FY26 goals, delays comprehensive user‑fee review pending ERP; keeps utility‑rate and water/sewer planning
Summary
At a Committee of the Whole, Wasilla City Council revised FY26 goal language after staff said a citywide, comprehensive user‑fee and cost‑recovery analysis is not feasible until the new Tyler ERP is implemented. The council kept a review of utility rates and moved to prioritize water/sewer master planning and targeted infrastructure work.
The Wasilla City Council met in committee of the whole and revised several proposed FY26 goals on financing and infrastructure, removing a citywide “comprehensive” user‑fee analysis for the coming year while keeping work on utility rate structure and sewer/water planning.
Council members and staff spent the session clarifying what the city can accomplish in FY26 and what must wait until staff finish a planned enterprise resource planning (ERP) rollout. Finance Director Cassie Olin told the council the department inherited a project begun under a prior director but that “there are hundreds of user fees” scattered through city code and that the workload, plus the Tyler ERP implementation, means a full, cost‑of‑service analysis across all departments is unlikely in the coming year.
“The workload of that is a tremendous lift for the finance department,” Finance Director Cassie Olin said, adding the new ERP will make many of the required financial reports and breakouts easier to produce.
Council members amended goal language to make the effort more incremental: instead of a single comprehensive review of current fees, the…
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