Recommendation to declare ordinance approving Resolution No. WD-1369, a resolution of the City of Long Beach Board of Water Commissioners establishing the rates and charges to be charged for water and sewer service to all customers, read and adopted as read. (Citywide)
Thank you. Motion carries. Thank you. Item 21 Please. Report from water. Recommendation to declare ordinance approving a resolution of the Long Beach Board of Water Commissioners. Establishing the rates and charges to be charged for water and sewer services to all customers. Read for the first time and laid over to the next regular meeting of the City Council for Final Reading Citywide. Is there a brief staff report? Chris Garner with a brief staff report. Thank you. Very briefly, as part of Proposition 218, we have to do a cost analysis study. We've spent the past year doing that with an expert analyst with us, and the result is what you have before you tonight. Well, what we do is we take our costs, we allocate them fairly to our customers among not only the customer classifications, but among the tiers. And for our residents, more than half of the customers will see no change or even lower monthly water and sewer bills under the new rates and structure when compared with the current rates . These customers are those that tend to use less water than the average customer, such as multi-family and duplex customers, as well as single family homes that use water efficiently. For those few residential customers that use much more water than the average resident. They will see higher monthly bills. This new rate structure will send the proper price signals to our customers to encourage the continued efficient use of our water supply. The new rates were approved by our Board of Water Commissioners. Interpretations of the proposed rate changes were made to each of our 90,000 customers. A public property rating hearing was held by the Water. Commission last Wednesday night to allow our customers an opportunity to voice their opinions. In regards to the rate changes. Prior to the hearing, the work program. Received six written letters of opposition. At the actual hearing, two customers attended, of which only one spoke in opposition. So before each night's request approved the resolution that the City of Long Beach Water Commissioners adjusting both the water and sewer rates and structures. Thank you. Thank you. And it's been moved and seconded. Any public comment on this item saying numbers, please cast your vote.