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West Sacramento staff recommend a 'mid' water-and-sewer funding scenario, warn of multi-year bill increases
Summary
City finance and public-works staff told the Environment Utilities Commission that water and sewer master-plan projects require significant capital and presented three funding scenarios; staff recommended the mid scenario to balance infrastructure need and rate impacts.
West Sacramento finance and utility staff presented an extended workshop on updated water and sewer cost-of-service studies and three funding scenarios that would alter utility bills over the next five years.
Roberta Raper, the city's finance director, opened the workshop saying the studies focus on water and sewer enterprise funds (refuse is excluded pending a separate contract). She told the commission the last rate adjustment was implemented July 1, 2021, and that inflation, pension and wage increases together have driven substantial cost pressure: "Just the CPI ... has increased about 19%," she said, noting master-plan recommended annual infrastructure investment rises of roughly 183% for water and 450% for sewer compared to the prior study.
Consultant Rick Simonson of HF&H explained the cost-of-service approach and customer classes. He noted the city's sewer collection portion is roughly 20% of the total sewer bill because Sacramento…
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