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Tehachapi council adopts water and wastewater rate increases after Prop 218 hearings
Summary
After public hearings under Californias Proposition 218, the Tehachapi City Council on May 5 approved phased increases to water and wastewater service charges, rejecting written majority protests and voting 5-0 to adopt the new rates.
The Tehachapi City Council adopted new water and wastewater service charges following Proposition 218 hearings on May 5, approving the proposed schedules by a 5-0 vote after receiving 50 written protests on water and 49 on wastewater.
City Public Works Director Don Marsh and Monique Roberts, an engineer with consulting firm AECOM, presented separate rate studies for the water and wastewater systems. Marsh said the city has undertaken a series of expensive, necessary maintenance projects in recent years — including well rehabilitations, major water-main replacements and clarifier work at the wastewater plant — and that projected costs required the adjustments.
"These are projects that are needed to be done to continue to have a reliable water system for the city as well as remain in compliance with all the state requirements," Marsh said at the hearing.
The water rate study recommended eliminating the long-standing two-zone structure (Zone A and Zone B) and moving to a single, citywide rate because per-capita water use has fallen and the city has acquired additional water rights. AECOM…
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