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Subcommittee recommends keeping July'Dec water budgets at 25 AF each; forwards recommendation to council
Summary
The subcommittee reviewed Jan.—2'May budget tracking and recommended the residential and non-residential six-month budgets remain at 25 acre-feet each; the recommendation was forwarded to the full council after a committee motion that passed 3-0.
The Prescott City Council Subcommittee on Water Issues on June 2 reviewed semiannual water-budget tracking and recommended that the city set the July'December 2026 residential and non-residential water budgets at 25 acre-feet each.
Water resources manager Brian Reese told the subcommittee that, for the Jan. 1'May 15 reporting period, two council-approved residential projects ' Lake View Plaza (an 82-unit multifamily development) and the Embry-Riddle modular dorm ' consumed a combined 11.08 acre-feet of the residential budget, leaving 13.92 AF available from the 25 AF allotment. For non-residential projects, nine administrative approvals plus the Prescott Plaza Hotel accounted for 7.56 AF of a 25 AF non-residential budget, leaving 17.44 AF available. Reese noted that a deep-well commercial approval for 27.9 AF was approved during the period but is not subtracted from the semiannual budget totals under current policy.
Reese also corrected an address error on the project tracking table: an amenity building compared to the Granite Dells Estates amenity building had an incorrect address, which staff clarified as 1221 Woodshoot Road; the amenity building includes a clubhouse and a swimming pool.
After discussion about landscaping expectations and the pipeline of pending projects, the committee coalesced around keeping the budgets flat at 25 AF for residential and non-residential uses. A committee member moved to forward that recommendation to the full council; a second was recorded, and the committee vote was recorded as "Passes 3-0." The subcommittee noted that this action is only a recommendation and that the full council must adopt final budget numbers.
What happens next: The recommendation to set the July'December 2026 residential and non-residential budgets at 25 AF will be forwarded to the full Prescott City Council for consideration and final action.
