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City of San Leandro <br />City Council <br />Meeting Date: May 5, 2025 <br />Agenda Number: 8.a. <br />Agenda Section: PUBLIC HEARINGS <br />File Number: 25-176 <br />File Type: Staff Report <br />Adopt a Resolution to Amend Title 6, Chapter 4 of the San Leandro Administrative Code Amending <br />Fees and Charges for Wastewater Discharge for FYs 2026-2030 <br />COUNCIL PRIORITY <br />·Infrastructure <br />SUMMARY <br />The Water Pollution Control Division (WPC) initiated a sewer rate study to determine the fiscal <br />requirements to maintain high quality service, repair aging infrastructure, and meet regulatory <br />requirements. Staff, upon the direction of the City Council and in compliance with Proposition <br />218, mailed a notice to all property owners within the City’s sewer service area of the proposed <br />rate increases, and opened the required 45 day protest period. If fewer than half of the property <br />owners submit protests to the increase, Council may raise the sewer rates to the specified <br />amounts. <br />RECOMMENDATIONS <br />Staff recommends that the City Council adopt the resolution to amend the sewer service rates to <br />the amounts shown in Attachment A Exhibit A for Fiscal Years 2026-2030 if there is no majority <br />protest. <br />BACKGROUND <br />The City’s wastewater infrastructure serves about 60,000 residents and businesses in the <br />northern two-thirds of the City. The system includes 125 miles of collection system pipelines, 12 <br />lift stations, and a Water Pollution Control Plant (WPCP) that processes an average of about 5 <br />million gallons per day of wastewater. Because of the preponderance of business and industrial <br />users, the WPCP receives some of the strongest wastewater in the Bay Area and processes this <br />water to exceed stringent requirements set by state and federal regulating agencies. <br />Proposition 218 requires that sewer rates be justified by expenses incurred in the collection and <br />processing of wastewater, including capital expenses and reserve requirements. The City <br />worked with Bartle Wells Associates, a public finance consulting firm with expertise in the areas <br />of utility rates and finance, to analyze all financial data from the wastewater enterprise fund <br />Page 1 City of San Leandro Printed on 9/4/2025