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Council to consider $853,000 NRDP grant for water meters and a Basin Creek park rehabilitation grant
Summary
Public Works requested hearings May 20 to accept an $853,000 NRDP grant to fund a Water Meter Program and to accept a separate NRDP grant for Basin Creek Park rehabilitation; council listed both items for public hearing with Ready Frost recorded as proponent and no recorded opponents.
Angie Mullikin, Public Works Budget Manager, requested that the council schedule public hearings on May 20 to amend the FY2025-26 budget and accept NRDP grant funding for two projects.
Mullikin said one grant is for $853,000 to fund a Water Meter Program for the Water Division and indicated the grant would allow the utility to move away from flat-rate billing (transcript phrasing: "getting off flat rates"). The second request would fund the Basin Creek Park Rehabilitation Project; Mullikin brought the item forward for scheduling and no award amount for the Basin Creek project was specified in the meeting record.
Proponent Ready Frost was listed for both items; no opponents were recorded. The council scheduled the public hearings as requested. Details on matching funds, implementation schedule and whether the water-meter project requires a rate study were not specified during the discussion and were not included in the presentation materials on the record.
If approved after the public hearing and formal budget amendment, the water meter program would be funded by the NRDP grant of $853,000 and would shift utility billing policy toward meter-based charging, subject to council and rate-setting procedures.
