Remarks by Melody Ryan
222 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 8 of 9
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“I was expecting us to come back and decide this after the Monarch opened and we saw what our financial needs were. They need the money now. There's been no discussion about needing the money. That wasn't part of the discussion. I guess maybe everyone's having other discussions.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 4:32:28
“This is something, this is for the five years, and there's no, I mean, I don't know. I would like to see how over the five years.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I'm just wondering what financial analysis that we have done about the impact that this is going to have on PCDC and our ability to execute on other projects like Project Nexus or other initiatives if we are committing these funds.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Just for clarity, the monarch, it will only be available for people set up for memberships. Is that correct?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I'm just saying there was a comment made about, well, this is for the good of the community and the taxpayers. But this is an enterprise fund that's limited. I just want to be clear, that's an enterprise fund limited to people who pay a membership. So it's not going to necessarily be open to any taxpayer. Just the ones who sign up for membership.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“And then when you does you'll see where the momentum is going to counsel There's a question to be clear because we haven't said said it and If we say it's open for all taxpayers, but then we go and set membership fees now and limits then it's not I'm gonna change directions. Yeah, I'm not just I'm just I'm gonna be clear on what we're doing and how we portray it Oh”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 4:43:20
“You have a sunk cost if you do it, and so this would just increase membership. Correct.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Well, obviously, when you're projecting revenue, you generally tend to be more conservative, but our wastewater master plan that we did approve had closer to an 8% annual growth over the next 10 years. So we're using 3% growth in the next year and 2% growth in the next four fiscal years after that. So just wanted to highlight that, that that is a major reduction in growth projections that we had in our master plan that we just approved.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Can you explain that a little bit more on the debt service?”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 14:42
“Okay, so we can do that and not affect the WIFIA rate covenant or the revenue requirement.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Okay, and then I had a question that came up with the budget when I was looking at this as well, so I guess I'm going to ask it here. In the budget, we had $10 million in impact fees, I thought, or somewhere mentioned, but here it's $8 million. So I was just wondering what was the determination of how much we put towards?”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Okay, so $10 million might be for the entire...”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“So I found where I saw the $10 million for the impact fees. It's in the utility capital fund. And so based on the explanation you just gave, it looks like we're projecting or proposing that we're going to receive $10 million. So that's revenue? Yes. Yes.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Right. Correct. So then my question is, how do we determine that of the 10 million we were going to use eight towards the debt? and two for, I guess, projects. Why not use all of them?”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Okay, so what I'm hearing is you've identified $8 million of debt payments that can be applied towards impact fees for new growth. and the other $2 million that we are expecting, there's not enough debt to use it all towards. There's not enough debt.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“But we could borrow debt for those projects and then use – I mean, there's a couple different ways to do that. You said it. I'm just – well, okay. All right. So there's possibly $10 million in debt payments that are related to growth projects that are on our impact fee list, but they're not cleanly in a specific –”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Do we have balances in our impact fees for water and wastewater that We're collecting the past that could also be used.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 22:54
“Okay, so we've used all of our impact fees that have been collected.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 27:29
“So on that, because I was surprised when I saw that, has that subsidy been consistent in previous years, the way that it's being allocated, mostly to commercial and not to residential, or was the allocation in this year changed from how we did it before?”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“So do you see this in other cost of service studies you do?”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 29:07
“So how often would you recommend that a city updates their cost of service study?”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 29:31
“Okay, so like if you see a large increase in multifamily, that might be a trigger to to look at it again because and here multifamily rate design is being classified as commercial yes thank you”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 30:52
“So but previously with the wastewater and how the rates were scheduled, was there a subsidy of commercial from residential? Yes, yeah, and it was quite significant. Yeah, so I wasn't sure because the number in the report was almost 5 million, and I wasn't, you know, but that was based on this year's usage and, you know, and the current rates, but not, I didn't know if it changed a lot from the previous year and if that was similar to what it would have been in the last few years.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“increase needed the across the board then it's 4.5 so that's that's pretty large so this change in the rate structure that we're that's being proposed is going to i mean we you know felt it right but now we have some numbers of how much was actually being subsidized by residential and now it's more equitable based on usage based on on the pressures that each class is putting on your system”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 32:35
“Yeah, so then this might have been, it might have changed as the housing, or as the mix of customer classes changed with more.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026