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Canby council debates street-maintenance fee increase, task force calls for audit
Summary
Canby councilors and staff spent a lengthy April 2 discussion reviewing options to raise the city’s street‑maintenance fee and asked staff to complete an audit before adopting any large change; several councilors supported indexing the fee to inflation immediately.
The Canby City Council on April 2 received an extended update on the city’s street‑maintenance fee and a recent citizen task force’s work. Staff and task‑force members presented multiple options for the residential fee (currently $5 monthly) and for nonresidential charges; the discussion concluded with council direction to have staff complete an audit before making a final change but several councilors asked the body to at least index the fee to inflation.
Background and options: Public works staff and the task force presented scenarios that would adjust single‑family residential monthly fees to about $7.46, $10.46 or $14.43. Staff said those figures were derived from the Pavement Condition Index (PCI) modeling and earlier task‑force recommendations; $7.46 would largely hold the…
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