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High Point budget presentation includes 8% water/sewer rate increase, solid waste fee changes and capital requests
Summary
City budget staff presented a draft FY2025–26 budget that includes an 8% water and sewer rate increase and several fee changes, citing shared PTRWA infrastructure costs, higher construction bids on major projects and increased capital needs.
Steven Havelock, the city’s budget performance director, told the High Point City Council the proposed FY2025–26 operating and capital budget includes an 8% increase in water and sewer rates, higher capital and debt-service costs in the city’s five-year capital improvement plan and several fee schedule changes across departments.
“The water sewer in the proposed budget includes an 8% rate increase,” Havelock said. He attributed most of that increase to the city’s share of infrastructure improvements at the Piedmont Triad Regional Water Authority (PTRWA), higher construction estimates on major projects and increased pay-as-you-go and bond-funded capital needs.
Havelock presented a table of capital drivers that listed four near-term revenue-bond projects—an East Side UV upgrade, West Side centrifuge, Water View pump station and the Whites Mill lift station—along with a large current estimate for the City Lake Dam project. The proposed five-year revenue-bond total rose in the plan from about $101 million previously to roughly $207 million in the current draft.
On fees, staff recommende…
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