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Show New Water Rate Plan to Be Aired at Public Hearing A third public hearing has been called for Thursday April 29 to further discuss a proposed water rate structure struct-ure for Park City. The rates will be applied to meter readings to equitably assess residents for the amount of water they use. The rates will also provide funding for Pumps Pulled Thursday the City's water department and enable repairs to be made to the existing water delivery system and depreciated depre-ciated equipment replaced. A special task force made up of residents from Old and New Park City have met several times to discuss the rate structure and Monday agreed to a proposal which they will recommend the City Council approve. The proposal calls for a minimum monthly charge for all residents of $10. For the fee residents, they would be able to use up to 10,000 gallons of water at no extra charge. Above that amount, water users would pay a flat $2.70 charge for each 1,000 gallons consumed. An original proposal that met with broad citizen opposition called for a $7.50 flat monthly fee for 3,000 gallons and an escalating scale for water used in excess of that amount. The escalating scale was designed design-ed to encourage water conservation but residents in Holiday Ranch and Park Meadows with large lots argued their water costs would be prohibitively high. The $10 proposal will cost Old Town residents with -small lots slightly more per month and New Town residents less. It ah;o does not as effectively encourage conservation. It does, however, how-ever, generate the $900,000 needed for the water department de-partment budget and seems ! to present an acceptible compromise as far as the City and residents are concerned. It also assesses a greater cost to out of town property owners who seldom use their units and, therefore, there-fore, would not generate overage revenue under the original proposal. |
