Cambria may have stopped water & sewer hikes
Friday October 26th, 2007 - 11:16:03 am
Dan Reddell Email
Friday, Oct 26, 2007
Posted on Fri, Oct. 26, 2007
Cambria residents may have stopped steep water and sewer rate hikes
Cambrians may have halted steep hikes for water and sewage treatment.
Protesters signed and submitted 3,321 objection letters by the deadline, the end of an emotionally charged, packed-house meeting held Thursday night by the Cambria Community Services District.
Approximately 2,000 formal objections were needed to halt the rate hikes — the district has not yet released the exact number required.
District officials will keep the objection letters locked up until Monday or Tuesday, when a League of Women Voters member will act as an observer during the official tally, which includes verifying that each letter was submitted by a ratepayer.
CCSD officials said they could have preliminary results by mid-week.
District directors are to meet again at 5:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 2, to certify the count and perhaps start determining the next steps in the process.
California's Proposition 218 requires agencies to get taxpayer approval for any new or increased assessment or tax related to owning land.
According to a consultant’s report, if the rates had been approved, within five years the district’s water-department revenue would have risen 98 percent, with the wastewater department seeing a 111 percent increase in income.
— Kathe Tanner

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