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Board backs recommending Sonoma Water FY26–27 transmission budget and rate increase to WAC representative
Summary
Sonoma Water officials presented a FY26–27 transmission budget that includes wholesale rate increases of 8.21–8.97% across aqueducts; Santa Rosa staff said the package would raise the average family of four's monthly bill by about $5.33 (6.4%); the BPU voted 5–1 to recommend the WAC representative support the proposal.
Nick Harvey, deputy director of administration for Santa Rosa Water, and Jake Spaulding, Sonoma Water finance manager, presented Sonoma Water’s proposed FY26–27 water transmission budget and a wholesale rate proposal to the Board of Public Utilities and asked the board to recommend how the city’s Water Advisory Committee (WAC) representative should vote.
Spaulding said Sonoma Water faces rising operations and maintenance costs, multiyear capital projects and resiliency needs, and that its fully volumetric rate structure makes per‑unit costs sensitive to…
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