1. Water Capacity Fees Will Use a System-Wide Approach — Not Split by Ione vs. Tanner The Board directed staff to proceed with Option 1 for calculating water capacity fees, which treats the entire treated water system as one combined system rather than splitting costs between the Ione plant service area and the Tanner plant service area. Legal counsel Josh Horowitz confirmed this is the most legally defensible approach and is consistent with how the recent water rate study was structured. This means expansion-related capital costs (roughly $17.6 million over five years) will be spread across all new connections system-wide rather than concentrating higher fees on Ione-area development. Note: treated retail and treated wholesale still have different buy-in components ($8,970 vs. $3,279 per EMU).
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