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Newberg rate review recommends 5% water increase; council hears $31 million oxidation-ditch plan
Summary
Consultant and staff recommended multi-year utility rate increases (roughly 5% water, 4.1% sewer, 4.5% stormwater, 4% transportation) to fund $6.6M in near-term HB 2001 projects and build capacity for a $31M wastewater oxidation-ditch rebuild; no vote was taken — the item was informational and will return for future decisions.
Consultant Deb Galardi of Galardi Rothstein Group presented the city’s biennial rate review on March 2, recommending multi-year increases intended to cover capital projects, operations and debt-service needs.
Galardi summarized the committee’s work and recommended a 5% water increase alongside 4.1% for sewer, 4.5% for stormwater and 4% for the transportation utility. She said the recommendations assume use of reserves and systems-development charges (SDCs) to reduce the short-term rate impact and noted the city’s two-year rate process is intended to smooth larger investments over a longer planning horizon.
“Those projects total $6,600,000 over the next few years,” Galardi said, naming the portion of HB…
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