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Salinas pauses sewer rate rollout after staff find errors; council told public hearing will repeat
Summary
City staff told the Salinas City Council on June 17 that inaccuracies were found in the sewer rate study, rate schedule and public notices. No vote was taken; staff will revise the study and bring new notices and a corrected schedule to council on July 1.
City staff told the Salinas City Council on June 17 that the city would restart the sanitary sewer rate process after identifying inaccuracies in the rate study, rate schedule and the public notices that had already been mailed. The revised study and updated notices are scheduled to return to the council for action on July 1.
The council had initiated a sewer rate-increase process on April 22. At the June 17 meeting Chris (staff member) said staff discovered differences between the categories and calculations the city used and the way Monterey One Water bills some customers based on measured flows. "We identified some…
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