Carson City utility oversight committee recommends tentative FY26 water, wastewater and stormwater budgets to Board of Supervisors

The Utility Finance Oversight Committee on a voice vote on an item-by-item basis acknowledged the tentative fiscal year 2026 budgets for the wastewater, water and stormwater utility funds are in compliance with Carson City's adopted financial policies and recommended the Board of Supervisors approve the tentative budgets.

Jamie Stevenson, accounting manager for Carson City, presented the three enterprise fund budgets and said staff included “the utility rate increase of 2.5% for all revenue projections” based on the December 2024 West Urban CPI rate schedule that went into effect in July 2022. Stevenson told the committee that salaries and benefits increases and internal service charges are the primary upward pressures on expenditures and that a recent health-insurance renewal lowered the originally budgeted medical increase.

Stevenson described key figures and supplementals for the funds. For the wastewater fund she said salaries and benefits were initially expected to…