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Resident calls for transparency, urges rollback of stormwater fee increase
Summary
Resident Maynard Little asked council to provide the consultant input data and line-item explanations behind a recent stormwater fee study and argued budgeted drainage expenditures far exceed actual spending; he urged staff to "rerun the numbers" and roll back the increase.
At the June 2 City Council meeting, resident Maynard Little delivered an extended public comment challenging the city's stormwater fee increase and asking for full transparency of the consultant inputs and line-item expense methodology. Little cited several fiscal-year drainage-improvement line items and told council, "Please rerun the numbers in house using something much closer to actuals and include estimated incremental revenue from new construction," arguing that budgeted drainage-line amounts substantially exceeded actual expenditures.
Little reviewed budget figures and year-to-date spending patterns for drainage improvements across FY '23–'26 and said the stormwater fund showed a reserve balance that "far exceeds" a 20% reserve figure; he urged council to roll back the fee increase if a rerun of the numbers shows the increase was unnecessary. Council did not provide an on-the-record detailed rebuttal during the public comment; staff and council members acknowledged Little's request and said they would follow up off the dais.
