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Council sets March hearing on 5.5% County Water Authority pass-through after contentious debate
Summary
After a lengthy debate about fairness to ratepayers and the County Water Authority's take‑or‑pay contracts, the City Council voted 6–3 to set a March 4 public hearing on a proposed 5.5% pass‑through to recover recent CWA rate hikes, but withheld multi‑year pass‑through authority for further analysis.
The City Council on Jan. 14 set a March 4 public hearing to consider a 5.5% pass‑through of recently adopted County Water Authority (CWA) rates, after a heated debate over whether the city should immediately pass CWA's increase on to San Diego ratepayers or press the regional wholesaler to change its contracting and budgeting practices.
PUD staff asked the council to set the hearing and also requested authority to administratively pass through future CWA increases up to 15% per year through 2029; the latter request prompted the strongest objections from council members and the IBA and was not advanced. PUD said the CWA board adopted a roughly 14% increase this year and…
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