To keep pace with inflation and the rising costs of providing safe, reliable water and sewer services, the City is conducting utility rates studies of its water and wastewater (sewer) services. Ideally, rate studies should be performed every three to five years. The City’s rates were last adjusted in 2019. Over the past five years, inflation has risen nearly 21% affecting the costs of providing these services.
Join City staff on Wednesday, November 8, from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at Murdy Community Center (7000 Norma Drive) and/or Thursday, December 7, from 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. at the Senior Center in Central Park (18041 Goldenwest Street) for a public open house. City staff has been working diligently on a series of steps involving data evaluation and technical analyses to derive customer rates while considering customer impacts of any rate modifications.
The goal of the rates studies is to ensure the rates customers pay for water and sewer services are:
- Fair, equitable, and aligned with community values and priorities
- Sufficient to ensure the continued financial viability of City utilities
- Sufficient to enable critical maintenance and infrastructure investment to continue high levels of service while complying with ever more stringent regulatory requirements
- Aligned with best practices and in accordance with state law
