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Snyder City Council debates trip-factor street-maintenance fee as officials weigh consultant costs
Summary
City staff proposed a tiered street-maintenance fee — an example $5 per single-family residence and a $40 average commercial rate — and recommended hiring a consultant to validate trip-factor calculations; councilmembers questioned costs, equity and existing street-fund use and asked staff to return with a consultant proposal.
City of Snyder staff outlined a draft approach to fund long-term street maintenance at the council’s Jan. 6 meeting, recommending use of a trip-factor index to assign fees by land use and vehicle trips and proposing that residential customers might pay about $5 a month while commercial accounts would pay higher, usage-based tiers.
“That is gonna take some time to dig into,” a staff member said, urging the council to hire a third-party consultant to validate trip factors for local commercial properties and to produce reliable…
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