{"id":12258,"date":"2013-03-07T14:52:12","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T22:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/?p=12258"},"modified":"2013-03-07T14:54:19","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T22:54:19","slug":"water-subcommittee-to-hold-meeting-saturday-re-rates-water-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/?p=12258","title":{"rendered":"Water Subcommittee to Hold Meeting Saturday re: Rates, Water Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/CityofSMadre_logo350.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-230\" title=\"CityofSMadre_logo350\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/CityofSMadre_logo350-300x229.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/CityofSMadre_logo350-300x229.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/CityofSMadre_logo350-150x114.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/CityofSMadre_logo350.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a>Press Release posted 3\/7\/13<\/em> &#8211; The first community study session on Saturday, March 9, 2013 at 10:00 am in the Sierra Madre Room at the Community Recreation Center, 611 E. Sierra Madre, will be a discussion of our water rates, and the upcoming water rate study that the City Council will be commissioning.<\/p>\n<p>For this meeting, we will focus on the following question:<\/p>\n<p><em>How do we structure water rates so that we:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Keep our water utility financially viable,<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Promote conservation so that we minimize or delay our need for an alternate water supply,<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Give a higher priority to health and hygiene needs of our citizens vs. discretionary uses (long hot showers, lush landscaping),<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Be sensitive to those that are least able to pay, and<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Build reserves to replace and repair aging infrastructure.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you are interested in participating, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/water_subcommittee_meeting_20130306.pdf\">click here<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0for the agenda reports on the State of the City&#8217;s Infrastructure and a Discussion on a Potential City Utility (Water, Sewer, Strom Drain) Rate Study. \u00a0(Editor&#8217;s note &#8211; the Water Sub-committee of the City Council consists of Mayor Josh Moran and Council member John Capoccia.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press Release posted 3\/7\/13 &#8211; The first community study session on Saturday, March 9, 2013 at 10:00 am in the Sierra Madre Room at the Community Recreation Center, 611 E. Sierra Madre, will be a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[80,54],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12258"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}