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Brooksville council adopts higher water and wastewater connection fees to fund plant expansion
Summary
The Brooksville City Council adopted Resolution 2025-02, raising recommended water and wastewater connection fees after a consultant presentation that tied the increases to a planned 1.1 MGD wastewater-plant expansion and rising construction costs.
The Brooksville City Council voted 5-0 to adopt Resolution 2025-02, which sets new water and wastewater connection fees recommended by a consultant study to help fund planned wastewater capacity upgrades.
The council action follows a presentation from Raft House consultants that recommended raising the water connection fee to $765 and the wastewater connection fee to $6,467. Mark Tumah, project manager for the study, said, “connection fees are paid by new development to fund infrastructure costs allocated to growth.”
The consultant team told the council the city’s current connection fees were set in 2004 and that the existing wastewater treatment plant is at capacity under…
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