Laserfiche WebLink
Mr. Freihammer directed the Commission to look at the winter use graph per <br />quarter. He reviewed the graph with the Commission and noted it was less than a <br />percent that use that tier in the winter and that would be the same amount of people <br />affected in the Summer months. He noted some of those may have leaky plumbing <br />and City Staff tries to notify those people. <br />Mr. Culver stated if the Council were to adopt this and staff was to implement this <br />new tier, staff would make concerted efforts to notify and educate those customers <br />over the 50,000 -gallon tier to let them know this is coming and to take a serious <br />look at why the resident is using that much water, particularly in the winter months. <br />Chair Cihacek stated if no changes are made and the City does get the money, to <br />allow for conservation programs moving forward, the City can develop some sort <br />of incentive program which would help the residents who are over the 50,000 - <br />gallon tier to lower their rates and become educated. <br />Commissioner Kors wondered how many households this would impact in the City. <br />Mr. Freihammer stated it would impact 350 residences in the summer and 17 <br />residences in the winter. He stated in the summer staff would target that group, <br />even the 40,000 -gallon tier to educate them, if this were to be adopted. <br />Chair Cihacek thought there would be opportunity with additional funding to have <br />good outreach and communication and a potential rebate on some of the programs. <br />Commissioner Kruse thought if this tier was adopted it would be higher than the <br />commercial rate for that same amount of usage. <br />Chair Cihacek thought if the rates were increased for residential the next <br />Commission task would be to look at commercial rates. <br />Mr. Freihammer stated commercial will be more varied because there is no typical <br />commercial property, and some are using it as process water, not necessarily <br />irrigation. Commercial is almost a different analysis. <br />Mr. Culver stated staff could modify the commercial rate and then set up an <br />exception opportunity so if the business can show the City that that particular <br />business is actually using the water for industrial purpose or production of aproduct <br />then the City could give them a different rate for that and still encourage those that <br />are consuming that much water for irrigation to do something different. <br />Chair Cihacek thought this would be a totally different analysis to look at rates and <br />would need a conversation at a different meeting, if needed. He thought if the City <br />raised one tier there would need to be a conversation for commercial. <br />Member Joyce asked if the biggest commercial user was Rosedale. <br />Page 5 of 12 <br />