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Santa Rosa council adopts five-year water and wastewater rate plan after protest hearing
Summary
After a Prop 218 protest hearing, the City Council adopted a five-year schedule of rate increases for potable, recycled and wastewater service and approved a code change to set future water rates by council resolution. Council found the number of written protests fell short of a majority and voted 6-0 on the main measures.
Santa Rosa City Council voted to adopt a five-year schedule of increases to potable, recycled and wastewater rates and to change the city code so future potable and recycled water rates can be set by council resolution. The council also adopted a written response to 10 timely objections received under newly enacted Assembly Bill 2257 and proceeded to the Proposition 218 protest hearing; the clerk reported 163 valid written protests, fewer than the majority threshold of 29,236 parcels.
The rate plan approved by the council calls for tiered changes in water revenue of roughly 6% annually for the first three years and 7% for the last two years of the five-year period, and a 5% increase each year for wastewater for five years. City staff said the schedule would support a planned increase in capital spending across water and wastewater infrastructure while keeping rates in the lower half among regional utilities. “We are looking to invest quite a bit more in the…
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