Fiscal Note
The proposed resolution adopts the 2025 rates for the Sewer Utility and Stormwater Utility and authorizes a budget adjustment to reflect 2025 rates which go into effect on bills generated after May 1, 2025. The 2025 Sewer Utility Adopted Operating Budget anticipated a 6.5% rate increase primarily due to Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District (MMSD) charges and debt service for capital projects. The 2025 Stormwater Utility Adopted Operating Budget anticipated a 2% rate increase primarily due to staff salaries and street sweeping charges.
For the average residential customer of the Sewer Utility, the rate increase is projected at approximately 11% compared to 2024 rates, which would result in an annual increase in charges of about $46.34 or $3.86 per month.
Average residential customers of the Stormwater Utility can anticipate a rate increase of about 1.4%, which is about $2.16 more annually or $0.18 per month.
Overall, the average residential customer’s annual bill is projected to increase about 8.4% which is about $48.50 annually or $4.04 per month.
Revenues and expenses that are predominantly consistent with these charges have been built into the 2025 Adopted Operating Budgets of the Sewer Utility and the Stormwater Utility.
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Amending the 2025 Operating Budget and setting the 2025 Rates for the Sewer Utility and Stormwater Utility. (Citywide)
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WHEREAS, the Sewer Utility and the Stormwater Utility are entirely self-sufficient and therefore require no property tax levy support; and
WHEREAS, consistent Madison General Ordinances Secs. 35.02(7)(a), 35.025(4), and 37.05(4)(f), and the standards set forth in Wis. Stat. § 66.0821(4), the City Engineer sets utility rates each year, which rates go into effect upon approval by the Board of Public Works and the Common Council; and
WHEREAS, now that the 2025 City Operating Budget has been adopted, the Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District rates for 2025 have been set and the preliminary ope...
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