Memorandum
Date: September 10, 2024
To: The Honorable Supervisor Sabatier, Chair, Lake County Board of Supervisors
From: Robin Borre, Special Districts Administrator
Jesus Salmeron, Special Districts Deputy Administrator- Fiscal
Subject: 9:15 A.M. - Public Hearing (Sitting as the Lake County Sanitation District Board of Directors) Consideration of an Ordinance Amending Sewer Use Ordinance, (Appendix A), of the Lake County Ordinance Code increasing Sewer Use Fees for the Northwest Regional Sewer System
Executive Summary: (include fiscal and staffing impact narrative):
Pursuant to Article XII (D) of the California Constitution, the Lake County Sanitation District (LACOSAN) is proposing to increase current sewer rates for Northwest Regional Sewer. If adopted, the increases for the sewer service fees will be effective on or after November 15, 2024, and July 1 each year thereafter in the five-year planning period with no additional required action or notice by the District. A Rate Setting analysis developed by Lechowicz & Tseng Municipal Consultants in coordination with District Staff for Financial Planning, Revenue Requirements, and Rate Setting Analysis was accepted by the Board of Directors at a regularly scheduled meeting of the Board on June 18, 2024.
In compliance with California Proposition 218, Article XIIID property owners that are included in the sewer system were mailed a letter informing the rate payers that a proposed rate increase is being considered, the basis on which the fees and charges were calculated, the public hearing date at least 45 days after mailing the letter to the property owners the time and place the District will hear all protests to the rate increase and the protest procedure. This letter was mailed on July 26, 2024.
Before taking final action on the proposed ordinance to increase the sewer charges and fees the Board of Directors, acting on behalf of LACOSAN Northwest Regional will hold a public hearing for final public testimony, hearing protests, tabulation of any protests submitted, and taking final action on the charges and fees increase. If, after the close of the public hearing, written protests against any of the proposed rate increases as outlined above are not presented by a majority of the record owners of the identified parcels upon which they are proposed to be imposed (50% plus 1 vote), the Board of Directors will be authorized to implement the rate adjustments.
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Recommended Action:
(Sitting as the Lake County Sanitation District Board of Directors) (a) Waive the reading of the Ordinance and read in title only and (b) Advance the Ordinance to the next available agenda for second reading.