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Boise council, acting as irrigation board, confirms 2025 municipal irrigation assessments; gravity lateral fee rises to $70
Summary
City staff reported the 2025 pressurized irrigation assessment rate will remain $935 per acre and the gravity lateral fee will increase to $70 per lot; no property owners disputed assessments at the hearing and staff recommended formally noting no corrections were required.
At a March 11, 2025 meeting in which Boise City Council sat as the board of directors for the Boise Municipal Irrigation District, Public Works project manager John Gunnarsson presented the 2025 irrigation assessments and opened the floor for property-owner objections.
Gunnarsson said the assessment rate for water year 2025 remains unchanged at $935 per acre for pressurized irrigation service. He said a separate assessment for gravity lateral users was mailed at $70 per lot, a $10 increase from 2024, to help cover operation and maintenance costs for keeping the lateral clear and flowing.
Gunnarsson noted the district operates seven pressurized irrigation systems serving 14 subdivisions and about 375 lots in West Boise, plus one gravity lateral that serves another 29 properties. He told council that assessments were mailed in late February and staff had not been notified of any errors.
Council opened the hearing for anyone disputing an assessment; no members of the public in person or online testified. With no objections, staff recommended and council recorded that no corrections were needed for the 2025 assessments.
Gunnarsson and council members referenced the statutory structure that places the council in the role of the irrigation district’s board of directors for purposes of the assessment hearing; the transcript records that staff recommended formally noting no corrections were required.
