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Bellevue environmental panel unanimously backs three sewer rate design changes and sends recommendation to council
Summary
The Environmental Services Commission voted unanimously to recommend three sewer rate-design proposals — a single-family volumetric simplification, restructuring of the multi-family fixed charge (phased in five years), and aligning nonresidential minimum charges with King County treatment costs — for city council consideration as part of the 2027–28 rate ordinance.
The Environmental Services Commission voted unanimously Jan. 8 to recommend three proposed changes to Bellevue’s sewer rate design that staff said aim to improve equity across customer classes while limiting abrupt bill shocks.
Staff asked the commission to forward a package that would: replace the single-family two-tier volumetric approach with a single uniform volumetric charge of $8.54 per 100 cubic feet (CCF); remove an 11-CCF allowance embedded in the multi-residential fixed charge and index that fixed charge to the class’s share of wholesale King County treatment costs with a five-year phase-in; and tie the minimum charge for nonresidential customers to the single-family wholesale-equivalent treatment cost.
"The cost-recovery study shows our multi-residential class collects about 123% of its cost, and that's effectively…
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