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Supervisors approve one-year rebate for Pajaro-area businesses after rate overhaul
Summary
The board authorized a one-time 50% rebate for nonresidential customers of the Pajaro County Sanitation District to soften large increases resulting from a recent Prop 218 rate restructuring; the county will fund the rebate from general-fund contingency.
The Board of Supervisors voted March 18 to use general-fund contingency to provide a one-time 50% rebate for nonresidential customers in the Pajaro County Sanitation District after a Prop 218 rate process adopted higher fees.
Public works staff said the district had not raised rates for roughly a decade and the Prop 218 update aligned customers to a standard methodology based on water use and a "high-strength" factor for businesses that return higher-strength wastewater. The change led to substantial increases for some businesses—staff said certain…
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