The Paso Robles City Council met Tuesday to discuss potential changes to sewer rates, among other items.
Council directed staff to bring back a specific rate proposal for sewer rates, with options, at their Feb. 16 meeting, with a proposed public hearing notice to commence the Proposition 218 notice and hearing process for adjusting sewer rates. The proposed rate increase would be 24-percent in July of 2021, and then 8-percent for 2022, 23, and 24. See graph above.
The city provides for the collection, treatment, and disposal of wastewater for nearly every home, business, and other facility in Paso Robles. The city wastewater system includes 126 miles of sewers, 14 sewage lift stations, and a 4.9 million gallon per day capacity wastewater treatment plant. Sewer rates are the main source of revenue for the operation and maintenance of the city wastewater system. The city maintains sewer revenues in a separate enterprise fund (the Wastewater Fund or Sewer Fund). Sewer rates have not