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7. B. - Page 4 <br /> To date, the City received 68 letters protesting the sewer service charge increases. <br /> ALTERNATIVES <br /> According to the requirements of Proposition 218, the City must receive protests from <br /> more than fifty (50) percent of current property owners and rate-paying customers on <br /> record to negate the proposed rate increases. The City Council could reject or revise <br /> the recommended rate increase regardless of the number of protest letter received. <br /> FISCAL IMPACT <br /> If Council approves the recommended changes, a typical Redwood City residential <br /> customer's bi-monthly sewer utility bill would increase by $10.42 from $115.76 to <br /> $126.18, effective August 1, 2013. <br /> ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW <br /> This ordinance is statutorily exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act <br /> (CEQA) review pursuant to Public Resources Code section 21080(b)(8). The City <br /> Council finds that the sewer service charges are for the purpose of ineeting operating <br /> expenses, including employee wage rates and fringe benefits, purchasing or leasing <br /> supplies, equipment, or materials, meeting financial reserve needs and requirements, <br /> and obtaining funds for capital projects necessary to maintain service within existing <br /> service areas. <br /> � <br /> TERENCE KYAW <br /> ASSISTANT PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR <br /> � ,( ��/�� <br /> , "E,�l/U�'�._ <br /> BILL EKERN <br /> COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR <br /> �� <br /> ROBERT B. BELL <br /> CITY MANAGER <br /> ATTACHMENTS <br /> 1. Ordinance Amending Section 27.100 of the Municipal Code of the City of <br /> Redwood City Relating to Sanitary Sewage Service Charges; <br /> 2. Benchmarking of Sewer Service Charges; <br /> 3. Prop-218—Notice of Proposed Water and Sewer Rates Increases; <br /> 4. Notice of Public Hearing <br />