NOTICE OF
PROPOSED SEWER RATE PLAN
and of
PUBLIC HEARING
for the
CITY OF SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO
NOTICE OF PROPOSED CHARGES FOR FY 2023-2024
CITY OF SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO SEWER SERVICE CHARGES
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of South San Francisco will hold a Public Hearing at a Regular Meeting on Wednesday, June 14, 2023, commencing at 6:00 p.m., or as soon thereafter as the matter may be heard, in the Council Chambers, at the Municipal Services Building, 33 Arroyo Drive, South San Francisco, California, on items, including consideration the following, at which time and place any and all persons interested may appear and be heard thereon. The Council may continue the hearing from time to time without further written notice. Written correspondence may be submitted to the attention of the City Council, at the address below.
THE CITY OF SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO HERBY GIVES FURTHER NOTICE that:
1. The City is proposing to increase charges by 3% above the current sewer rate. The proposed increase is a part of the Sewer Rate Plan previously adopted by the City Council on January 12, 2022 for FY 2022-23 through FY 2027-28, which established a five-year rate schedule providing for annual increases. The purpose of the increase is to finance improvements to the City’s sewer collection, pumping and treatment facilities. The improvements are necessary to comply with State and Federal water quality mandates.
2. A description of how the rates are calculated and the schedule of rates are available from the Water Quality Control Plant located at 195 Belle Air Road, and the City Clerk located at 400 Grand Avenue, South San Francisco. If the rate increases are approved, it is proposed that they will commence to be collected with the property taxes beginning with Fiscal Year 2023-24 and will continue to be collected until otherwise modified by the City. The sewer rates will not exceed the maximum amounts approved without another written notice to the property owners.
3. To get additional information about the sewer rate plan, please contact:
Water Quality Control Plant
South San Francisco, CA 94080
Telephone: (650) 877-8555
E-mail: [email protected]
If you challenge in court the action taken by the City Council regarding the item described above, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice of in written correspondence delivered to the City Council at, or prior to, the public hearings.
Any person wishing to provide comments to the City Council on this matter is invited to attend the meeting in-person or by teleconference.
Teleconference participation is offered in the meeting via Zoom as a courtesy to the public. If no members of the City Council are attending the meeting via teleconference, and a technical error or outage occurs on the teleconference feed, the City Council will continue the meeting in public in the Council Chambers.
Instructions on how to observe the meeting and provide Public Comment in-person or by teleconference can be found on the Agenda located at https://ci-ssf-ca.legistar.com/Calendar.aspx.
Comments may be submitted electronically by using the eComment portal.
If you have any questions or wish to submit written correspondence regarding this matter, contact the City Clerk, at 400 Grand Avenue, South San Francisco, CA 94080 or (650) 877-8518.
Rosa Acosta, City Clerk
City of South San Francisco
May 24, 2023
Published in the Examiner – South San Francisco
(Wednesday, May 31, 2023 and Wednesday June 7, 2023)