PROPOSAL TO ADJUST CURRENT WATER RATES
Goal: Address frequently expressed concerns of citizens
Simplicity
Understandability
Fairness
Liability Risk
SIMPLICITY and UNDERSTANDABILITY
EFFECT ON THE SUPPLY CHARGE
Current Supply Charge
Calculated as $0.32 X 12 per ccf used = $3.84 per ccf, but using the previous year's May to October months (with no charges for November through April), but paid for over 12 months, but not this year … the following year.
Proposed Supply Charge
Calculated each month as $0.22 X 12 per ccf used = $2.64 per ccf, paid right after it's used.
Which would you choose?
FIVE PARTS OF THE PROPOSAL
Remove the Supply Charge “Look Back” Supply Charge Based on 12 months, not 6 Reduce Fixed Meter Fee by Additional 19% Use Two Tiers for Variable Use Fee Prop 218 Notice in Fall
Proposal affects all 3 Components of the Bill
FROM THE CONSUMER’S PERSPECTIVE
BILL COMPONENTS
There are 3 Bill Components:
• Distribution Charge -- by meter size, pays for administrative costs
• Supply Charge -- pays for infrastructure costs
• Variable Use Fee -- pays for actual water processed and delivered
FROM THE CONSUMER’S PERSPECTIVE
CALCULATING A BILL
Take the 3 bill components: Distribution Charge, Supply Charge and Variable Use Fee and add them together. Calculations based on our proposal are as follows:
Monthly Bill without tiers:
Distribution Charge by meter size, plus $2.64 per ccf Supply Charge, plus $0.86 per ccf Variable Use Fee = Total Water Bill
Monthly Bill with proposed tiers:
Distribution Charge by meter size, plus $2.64 per ccf Supply Charge, plus $0.50 per ccf <21 plus $1.90 per ccf >20 = Total Water Bill
PROPOSAL - PART ONE
Remove the Supply Charge “Look Back” Pay As You Go
• Bill each month for actual water use
• Pay for your own water use, not for those living at the property the previous May – October
No money carry over
Familiar …
The Way It’s Always Been Done, Pay As You Go
PROPOSAL - PART TWO
Supply Charge Based on 12 months, not 6
Water will cost the same regardless of when you use it
Advocated for by Measure P supporters
Advocated for by Davis Enterprise
Provides Resilient/Sustainable Revenue
PROPOSAL - PART THREE
Reduce Fixed Distribution Charge by 19%
Moves volume-related meter replacement costs into Supply Charge Lessens fixed fee burden for all Helps Equalize the Cost Burden between low and and high volume users
PROPOSAL - PART FOUR
Variable Use Fee
Tier 1 and its Effect Current fee = $0.86 per ccf Proposed Tier 1 fee = $0.50 per ccf Tier 1 includes 20 ccf per living unit Reduces Cost of Low Volume Water Reduction of $0.36 per ccf produces
per month savings of $7.20 at 20 ccf
PROPOSAL - PART FOUR
Variable Use Fee
Tier 2 and its Effect Proposed Tier 2 Fee = $1.90 per ccf
for use greater than 20 ccf per living unit Incentive to Conserve Immediate Reward for Efficient Use Does not penalize large families 2.25 ccf per person (State standard)
PROPOSAL - PART FOUR
The graphical examples that follow are for Single Family Residential accounts organized by increasing annual water use.
Each Group below represents 10%of the SFR accounts
Looking at the highest Water use Group
Four Way Picture
Progression from Bartle Wells (in yellow) to CBFR (in red) to this proposal (in green)
We believe this is a better rate structure• It is more responsive to consumers• It is more equitable• It is simpler and easier to understand• It is fiscally resilient and sustainable• It reduces the community’s fiscal risk• It addresses citizens concerns• It further addresses fairness• It addresses our liability risk
WHY DO ANYTHING?
We believe this is a better rate structure• It is more responsive to consumers• It is more equitable• It is simpler and easier to understand• It is fiscally resilient and sustainable• It reduces the community’s fiscal risk• It addresses citizens concerns• It further addresses fairness• It addresses our liability risk
WHY DO IT NOW?
LIABILITY RISK?