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From:Andy Tong To:GRP-City Council Subject:Protest against proposed water rate increase Date:Wednesday, August 13, 2025 10:45:03 AM You don't often get email from andytong@yahoo.com. Learn why this is important Dear Redwood City council members, As a home owner of a single-family residence in Redwood City for over 20 years, I would like to submit a written protest against the proposed water rate increase, slated to be discussed on Nov 10th, 2025. My residence address is 19 Grand St., Redwood City, CA 94062, parcel number: 052-224-190. The two main objections I have against this proposal are twofolds: 1. Eliminating the tiered metered rate for single family residence with the “uniform volumetric rate”. For years now, the water rate structure has increased weight of flat charge and reduced weight of metered charge. I understand the rationale is to to offset fixed costs. But to eliminate tiered metered rate in addition to that, would entirely disincentivize ANY form of water conservation, and disproportionately negatively impact households that have actively conserved water. For example, for those with low water usage (tier 1), this proposal represents a 33% increase of the metered rate in 2026 (and more in subsequent years.) That’s a substantial increase. I STRONGLY urge the council to reject this proposal, and continue to use tiered rate to encourage water conservation. 2. The higher % increase of flat service charges for single family residiential meters. By 2028, the service charge would have gone up by $20 over the current $82.09, whereas the 2” and above multi-family and commercial meters would have had minimal increase. Again, this disproportionately impact those households who are single family residences and have dedicated meters, and have been actively conserving water. I would suggest reduce the % of increase to single family service charge, and increase the service charge for 2”and above meters to offset it. Thank you, Andy Tong