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Council hears water-rate study recommending multiyear increases; staff to begin Prop 218 process
Summary
Consultant presented a water rate study proposing phased increases (roughly 7% per year over five years) to support aging infrastructure and rising wholesale costs; council received the report and discussed a range of rate scenarios.
At a study session on April 8, Millbrae officials reviewed a consultant’s water rate study that recommends a multiyear rate plan to fund aging water infrastructure, rising wholesale water costs from the San Francisco Public Utility Commission (SFPUC), and ongoing operating expenses.
Alex Handlers, the consultant from Bartle Wells Associates, presented the draft findings and recommended a five-year rate plan that would broadly raise rates about 7% annually to reach a long-term capital funding target of roughly $5 million per year (in current dollars). The report includes an option to adopt a wholesale-rate “pass-through” mechanism for unanticipated SFPUC increases above a…
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