Customers could be paying more than double their current rates by 2028 due to a series of fee increases.
L.A. Mayor Karen Bass’ office pledged in a March 5 statement to El Segundo–in response to the coastal city’s demand in a Feb. 23 letter that there be leadership changes at Hyperion–to work with El Segundo to make organizational improvements and provide resources to remedy the 2.5-year and ongoing problems from a 2021 sewage spill, and the lack of transparency behind it.
City Councilmember Katy Yaroslavsky, who chairs the council’s Energy and Environment Committee, said during the Tuesday, May 14, council meeting that the city used to raise sewer rates annually but when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, officials put the brakes on rate hikes. Following a lengthy debate, the City Council voted 11-4 on Tuesday to start the process for adopting the proposed fee hikes – though any changes in rates won’t be official until the issue returns to the council for a final vote. Councilmembers Monica Rodriguez, Kevin de Leon, Heather Hutt and Imelda Padilla voted no to move forward with the process.
Romero said staff at the sanitation bureau plan to host open houses, speak at Los Angeles Neighborhood Council meetings and launch a calculator on their website where customers can plug in their information and find out how much to expect to pay. “We need to ensure that we protect the health and the environment of our sewer system in our neighborhoods. As you all know, we have an aging infrastructure,” Romero said.
“We need time. We are talking about a four-year, $700 million rate increase by an opaque and unresponsive enterprise that must be thoroughly vetted without undue time pressures,” he wrote.
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