Dear Council and City Staff,
In reviewing the Water and Sewer Enterprise Funds, I do not see a break out of revenue from water sold to commercial water trucks.
I believe that Council Member Hinton requested this as a line item.
I know that myself and several other members of the public have requested more transparency regarding the revenue from commercial water sales at the Public Works yard as trucks fill up with Sebastopol water on a daily basis.
Can Staff include the amount of money generated by Commercial Water Truck sales? As this is a commercial sale, there should be daily reports of how much water is sold, how much money is collected, what it costs to deliver the water and net profit.
As this is a commercial venture by the City using a public asset, it does not fall under Prop. 218 compliance and the City can profit from this water sale.
In fact, commercial sales to water trucks should be generating revenue to help repair the Water and Sewer Infrastructure.
In addition, as expenses are down in both Water and Sewer Enterprise funds, there should be more money in the reserves so that the City can start to address the infrastructure issues from the silt in the storm pipes to the need to replace Well #4.
I realize that the Water Master Plan is in the work. I assume this will cover the Sewer as well as it would be advantageous to repair both water and sewer infrastructure at the same time, especially if roads need to be opened and repaved.
Please provide more transparency around the City’s sale of water with a daily sales receipt that can be included in quarterly reports, the reserves and what is need to start work on infrastructure repair, and how the reserves are impacted by excess funding resulting from lower than expected expenses.
Thank you,
Kate Haug