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Council hears consultant recommending higher water and wastewater capacity fees with four‑year phase‑in
Summary
City finance staff and consultants presented a five‑year review of water and wastewater capacity fees, recommending higher calculated fees that would be phased in over four years beginning March 1, 2027, while exempting qualified affordable housing. Councilors pressed consultants about who would bear any gap created by statutory fee caps.
City finance staff and a consulting team told the Tampa City Council that the city’s current water and wastewater capacity fees do not fully cover the system‑level costs of treatment and transmission and recommended higher fees phased in over four years beginning March 1, 2027.
The recommendation, presented by Murray Hamilton of the consulting team and summarized by Mike Perry of Revenue and Finance, stems from a statutorily mandated five‑year review. Hamilton said the firm calculated a system‑wide treatment cost that produced a water treatment component of $1,837 per equivalent residential unit; Florida statute, he said, would cap the statutory maximum for that component at $1,530 and requires a four‑year phase‑in for any increase. "We…
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