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Melbourne officials review consultant plan to raise water and sewer impact fees to $6,920 per home
Summary
City staff and a Raftelis consultant told a Nov. 13 workshop the city’s combined water and sewer impact fee would rise from $3,750 to $6,920 per equivalent residential connection under the proposed study; council gave staff direction to prepare an ordinance and hold a second workshop on Nov. 25 to consider an extraordinary‑circumstances finding.
Trevor McCarthy, a consultant with Raftelis Financial Consultants LLC, told a City of Melbourne workshop on Nov. 13 that his firm’s updated study supports increasing the city’s water impact fee to $2,755 per equivalent residential connection (ERC) and the wastewater fee to $4,165 per ERC, for a combined fee of $6,920 per ERC, up from the current $3,750 per ERC. “We’re recommending that the city's Council consider our impact fees of $2,755 per ERC for water ... $4,165 per ERC for wastewater,” McCarthy said during the presentation.
McCarthy said the calculations reflect roughly $322 million in water-related assets and about $217 million in wastewater-related assets included as existing and planned capacity in the city’s capital improvement plan, and use a 240‑gallon‑per‑day level of service to convert cost per gallon into a per‑ERC fee. He told council the proposed increases are driven by a mix of factors including construction‑cost inflation, large planned capital projects and projected development growth.
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