Queen Creek council opens 60‑day process to raise wastewater capacity fees

The Queen Creek Town Council voted 5‑0 to begin the statutorily required 60‑day notice period to increase the town's wastewater capacity fees and to set a public hearing for 6:30 p.m. on Dec. 3, 2025; the motion as read on the record proposed an effective date of Jan. 5, 2026.

Deputy Town Manager and Chief Financial Officer Scott McCarty said the proposed update is driven by treatment‑plant capacity constraints and growth. "The fee essentially is a little bit more than doubling," McCarty said during the council presentation, pointing to infrastructure and lease costs the town plans to include in the calculation.

The council heard a technical presentation from Mark Skocific, the town's utilities director, and from Kuda Wekwe of DTA Public Finance, the consultant who ran the fee study. Staff told the council they used a 10‑year planning horizon (as required by state law) and a standard equivalent residential unit (ERU) of 168 gallons per day to project demand. Under the study's assumptions, staff estimated roughly 14,600 ERUs of growth over 10 years and said the…