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JCSA unveils FY27 budget with $1.50 monthly fixed-charge increase and $7.5M Kings Point water-main project
Summary
Doug Powell, general manager of the James City Service Authority, presented a FY27 budget just over $29 million that funds a $7.5 million Kings Point water-main replacement, a $5.3 million FY27 CIP and proposed $1.50 increases to fixed monthly water and sewer charges; volumetric sewer rates would hold steady.
The James City Service Authority on Tuesday presented a proposed FY27 budget of just over $29 million that relies entirely on user fees and funds a neighborhood-scale water-main replacement and a modest five-year capital program.
"We are solely reliant on the fees and charges that we charge our customers for the services that we provide," JCSA General Manager Doug Powell said, adding, "We don't get any revenue from the county. We're totally self sufficient." Powell framed FY27 as the first year of a two-year budget and said the proposal is guided by a five-year strategic plan adopted in February.
Powell highlighted a multiyear Kings Point project to replace roughly 20,000 feet of aging 19-inch water pipe, which he said has a total project cost of about $7,500,000; not all of that sum is budgeted in FY27. The…
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