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City approves one-time sewer credits totaling about $2,748 for eight residents
Summary
Officials approved a batch of one-time metered sewer credits for eight households — totaling about $2,748 — for incidents such as filling pools and repairing leaking outdoor hose bibs; a council member urged individualized review before blanket approvals.
City officials approved a set of one-time sewer credits for eight residents, with the credit amounts listed by staff and tied to events such as pool refills, new landscaping and leaking outside hose bibs. The amounts presented and recommended by staff were: $278.14, $94.66, $786.26, $614.14, $57.50, $110.39, $228.88 and $578.08, a total of $2,748.05.
Staff described the policy rationale: the credits reflect water that was not sent to the wastewater treatment plant, so the city did not incur treatment costs. “The reason we’re giving them this money… is because the city didn’t have to do any work to treat this water,” the committee member explained.
A council member identified in the transcript as Steve pressed for more individualized consideration and questioned approving all credits in a single vote, saying, “I don’t want to sound like the Grinch, but… we gotta take every individual thing.” The committee member responded by explaining the credit calculation method and moved to approve the credits as presented. The motion was seconded and vocal aye votes were recorded; the presiding official declared the motion carried.
Staff noted the credits are calculated by comparing heavy usage periods against normal averages and that the listed amounts reflect those calculations.
