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:- . <br />444 <br />Acting Chair Wozniak stated Member Misra's idea to move multi -unit families <br />445 <br />from commercial to residential rates, but he was not sure if Member Misra was <br />446 <br />suggesting installing an irrigation meter as part of that or would that be an incentive <br />447 <br />for them to move over to the residential rate. <br />448 <br />449 <br />Member Misra thought that option was there. <br />450 <br />451 <br />Acting Chair Wozniak stated the option is there, but it could also be made a <br />452 <br />requirement to install an irrigation meter if moving to residential rates. He <br />453 <br />wondered if the Commission was close to making some recommendations about <br />454 <br />rates or does the Commission need another meeting to talk about this with other <br />455 <br />members. <br />456 <br />457 <br />Member Joyce thought more members should give their input. <br />458 <br />459 <br />Mr. Culver suggested maybe the Commission should hire a consultant who has a <br />460 <br />lot of expertise in setting water rates. He noted other cities have done this. The <br />461 <br />consultant could come back with recommendations and what has been done <br />462 <br />effectively in other communities nationally. He indicated he did not know what the <br />463 <br />cost of the study would be, there is not anything in budget for this, but it could be <br />464 <br />looked at to see about budgeting for it and recommending to the City Council. That <br />465 <br />could potentially be a much more intense approach. <br />466 <br />467 <br />Member Misra thought the Commission had a pretty good idea of Roseville and <br />468 <br />what it is as a community. She stated Roseville is mostly residential and a lot of <br />469 <br />the commercial is not highly industrial. Where she was having trouble is that it was <br />470 <br />pretty easy to figure out the tiers for the residential usage but does not feel as clear <br />471 <br />to figure it out for the commercial usage. She guessed if the City took all of the <br />472 <br />residential water use out of commercial and look at what is left, it is probably a <br />473 <br />pretty small number of users that use a lot of water either for irrigation or whatever <br />474 <br />the industrial use is. One of the things the City could do is once all of the residential <br />475 <br />users are taken out, increase the tiered rate, not by adding tiers but by going from <br />476 <br />295 and 315 to 315 and 325 for example. Then the City is not looking at residential <br />477 <br />use and she thought it was fair to say that people who are using water as a source <br />478 <br />for promoting their business have a reason to pay for it in a different way. <br />479 <br />480 <br />Acting Chair Wozniak asked staff if that made sense and something the City could <br />481 <br />do. He stated in terms of making multi -units a residence, he would be interested in <br />482 <br />making that decision based on more than four randomly selected examples out of <br />483 <br />the hundred or so the City has. <br />484 <br />485 <br />Mr. Freihammer stated staff could come back with some language to define the <br />486 <br />properties as something different and try to look a little more at the data. <br />487 <br />Page 11 of 13 <br />