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Council directs staff to push back planned increases to development connection fees by one year

5387712 · July 15, 2025
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Summary

After months of ad hoc committee work, Mount Shasta City Council voted July 14 to delay planned increases to water and wastewater connection fee discounts by one year and asked staff to prepare a resolution formalizing the revised timeline.

City staff presented a recommendation from an ad hoc fees committee to phase out a long-standing discount on development connection fees. Melissa, the city manager, told the council the committee recommended reducing an existing 75 percent discount on connection fees to 50 percent for fiscal year 2025–26, then to 25 percent in 2026–27, with full fees by 2027–28, and that staff should pursue…

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