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Council approves first reading of ordinance shifting sewer "winter averaging" period
Summary
Finance Director Barbara Lopez presented an ordinance to amend how sewer usage charges are calculated by shifting which months are treated as the water‑consumption period used to compute winter averaging. Council approved the ordinance's first reading and scheduled a second reading at the next meeting.
The Puyallup City Council on Jan. 7 moved the first reading of an ordinance that changes the dates used to compute the city's winter averaging method for sewer charges, a change the finance director said would better match customers' seasonal water use and reduce sewer charges tied to irrigation and other high‑summer water uses.
Barbara Lopez, finance director, explained the current approach and the proposed change. "Basically, what we do is we take certain months, November, December, through May 31st, and we figure out what your average is of water…
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