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Council updates culinary and pressurized irrigation rates; mapping fee changed to one-time charge
Summary
Council approved a five-year culinary water rate schedule (with a 2027 Block-2 non-residential rate set at $3.53) and adopted pressurized irrigation rates effective Jan. 1, 2027; Council also replaced a proposed $50 annual irrigation mapping fee with a $75 one-time mapping-change fee.
The American Fork City Council on June 23 approved updates to both culinary and pressurized irrigation rates and revised the city fee schedule governing irrigation mapping.
Finance staff and consultants proposed a five-year culinary rate schedule; after discussion the Council restored the originally proposed 2027 Block-2 non-residential culinary water rate to $3.53 (previously listed at $4.02 in a draft). The Council approved the culinary water utility fee resolution with that modification.
On pressurized irrigation, staff recommended a new rate schedule developed over roughly 18 months of analysis. During the pressurized-irrigation discussion Council Member John disclosed a conflict of interest as President of the American Fork Irrigation Company and recused himself from discussion and voting. The Council adopted Resolution No. 2026-06-28R to implement the pressurized irrigation fees effective Jan. 1, 2027; voting recorded four yes votes, one abstention/recusal.
Council and staff also discussed an irrigation mapping fee intended to recover administrative costs for maintaining GIS-based irrigation boundaries. Council consensus favored charging property owners only when a mapping change is requested rather than imposing an annual renewal fee. The final fee schedule approved that evening removed the $50 annual mapping renewal fee and replaced it with a $75 one-time mapping change fee to be charged when a property owner requests remapping.
Concerns raised during the public hearing included whether lot-size-based irrigation charges reduce conservation incentives and the accuracy of mapping for multi-meter HOA systems; speakers estimated potential first-year and long-term cost increases for some shareholders and urged the Council to finalize water shareholder agreements before new rates take effect.
