The San Diego City Council on Tuesday voted unanimously to approve a 3% rate hike for water customers.
The Water Authority currently serves 1.4 million customers. Impacted customers have a 45-day period prior to a City Council vote to protest any proposed utility rate hikes. Fifty-one percent of impacted customers must submit a complaint in order to cancel the vote. In the case of this water rate hike, the 51% would be of the 120,000 households served by San Diego County Water Authority, not individual customers.
San Diego City Council President Sean Elo-Rivera said they received more than 2,000 protests from San Diegans, much less than the threshold needed to stop a City Council vote.Councilmembers acknowledged that it’s a tough time for San Diegans to have to incur any additional living expenses, but also said that they will be making assistance available to low-income San Diegans who are worried about paying their bills.
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