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<br /> <br />City to fund its sanitation services operations. Therefore, a five-year financial management <br />plan was calculated. <br />SCS determined that sanitation services user charge per unit should increase to a monthly <br />charge of $11.72 per month in July 2024, billed bi-monthly as $23.44 per unit per bill. An <br />inflationary-like increase of approximately 3.50% is anticipated to be necessary each July <br />from 2025 to 2028. <br />The public hearing will include consideration of adopting a resolution that will authorize <br />sanitation user charges and future user charge adjustments for a five -year period <br />commencing July 1, 2024, through June 30, 2029. If approved by the City Council, the <br />proposed user charges included in Exhibit A will go into effect on July 1, 2024, including <br />annual user charge adjustments in user charge years two through five, based on the <br />methodology contained in the tables below. <br />Any additional increase that exceeds this methodology and the additional user charge <br />increase percentages below, in any year, would be subject to another Proposition 218 <br />noticed public hearing and approval by the City Council. <br />SANITATION SERVICES USER CHARGES <br /> <br />Current <br />FY 2023-24 <br />Proposed <br />FY 2024-25 <br />Year 2 <br />FY 2025-26 <br />Year 3 <br />FY 2026-27 <br />Year 4 <br />FY 2027-28 <br />Year 5 <br />FY 2028-29 <br />Implementation <br />Date <br /> July 1, 2024 July 1, 2025 July 1, 2026 July 1, 2027 July 1, 2028 <br />Monthly User <br />Charge per Unit <br />$5.35 $11.72 $12.13 $12.56 $13.00 $13.45 <br />PUBLIC HEARING PROCESS <br />At the time of the Public Hearing, the City Council will hear and consider all protests and <br />objections to the proposed increases. Oral comments DO NOT qualify as a formal protest <br />unless accompanied by a written protest. Upon conclusion of the hearing, the City Council <br />will evaluate the written protests and consider the adoption of the proposed increases. If <br />written protests are not submitted by at least a majority of identified parcels subject to the <br />proposed adjustments (a “majority protest”), the City Council will be authorized to adopt <br />the proposed user charge. If adopted, the increased user charges will become effective on <br />July 1, 2024, and annual user charge adjustments effective July 1, 2025, through July 1, <br />2028. <br />FOR MORE INFORMATION <br />Please visit us at https://www.santa-ana.org/, to learn more about the proposed user <br />charge changes.