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Council considers changing water/sewer rate structure; staff to meet individually with large users
Summary
Staff proposed aligning commercial and residential water rate structures to reduce the burden on residential rates and to support increased water/sewer capital investments; council debated impacts to large multifamily accounts and asked staff to meet individually with affected customers before finalizing changes.
Town staff raised a potential change to the town’s water and sewer rate structure that would move accounts to a single rate model similar to regional practice, with the stated goal of stabilizing revenues while limiting the overall rate increase for residents.
Staff said Fairfax Water’s wholesale volumetric rate is rising ~9%, and the town is also budgeting for increased wholesale and material costs. As a revenue strategy, staff…
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