Task force purpose
Kansas City is faced with major challenges, including the need to renew and replace aging infrastructure, sustain community growth, provide higher levels of service and achieve regulatory compliance. To meet these challenges, an understanding of the costs to provide services and recommendations regarding long-term funding is needed.
The Water Services Utility Funding Task Force will help integrate community values into forming a funding strategy for the City’s water, sewer and stormwater utilities. The task force will develop guiding principles for the development of user charges and fees that are fair, equitable and sufficient to meet revenue requirements. In addition, the task force will provide guidance on how to fund the Sewer Overflow Control Program.
The task force will provide the mayor and City Council written recommendations regarding funding issues.
Task force membership
The Water Services Utility Funding Task Force membership was defined by Council resolution 071205 adopted on Nov. 8, 2007. The membership was designed to reflect a balance of interests, including:
- One to two members of the City Council
- One to two current or past members of the Public Infrastructure Advisory Committee
- One to two members of the Wet Weather Community Panel
- One to two members of the financial community
- One member of the community acquainted with local poverty issues
- One member of the community acquainted with development issues
- One member of the community with a background in demographics and social sciences
- One representative from the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce
- One member from the industry sector
- Three community representatives.
- Agenda
- Draft Recommendations Document
- System Development Charges Phase-In Period Discussion Paper
- Incentives Overview Discussion Paper
Sept. 3, 2008
Meeting packet: - Agenda
- Funding Alternatives Model Questions/Supplementary Information
- Agenda
- Industrial community meeting notes
- Development community meeting notes
- Updated draft policy document
- Stormwater funding overview and presentation
- June 4 public hearing notes
July 2, 2008
Meeting packet:- Agenda
- Updated draft funding strategy document
- Customer assistance alternatives paper
- Letter from Midwest Terminal Warehouse Co.
June 4, 2008
Meeting packet: - Agenda
- System development charge presentation
- Revenue enhancement presentation
- Possible future City rates information
- Revised potential impact of rates on business and residence
- Sales tax exemption information
- Long range funding for water utility presentation
- Water and wastewater rate survey
- Stormwater rate survey
- May 29 Kansas City Star article
- Updated topics/schedule
- Wastewater financial summary
- Impact of revenue increases - impact on user rates
- Potential stormwater expenses
- Draft wet weather preliminary report
- Agenda
- Updated draft policy statements and wet weather funding recommendations
- System development charges paper and presentation
- Customer assistance by geographic area
- Regional sales tax information
- Memo from Councilman Russ Johnson
- Updated topics/schedule
Meeting notes
- Agenda
- Fitch rating agency rating guidelines
- AWWA draft best financial practices
- 2009 water/sewer rates presentation
- Cost of service/rate making presentation
- E-mail from City Planning re: trails
- Wet weather solutions questions and answers
- April 2 public hearing comments
- Agenda
- Policy survey - results from public
- Updated draft policy and funding recommendations
- Revised strawman discussion paper
- March 12 and March 26 public hearing comments
- Letter to Mayor Funkhouser from Wet Weather Community Panel
- Agenda
- Economic trends
- Draft policy statements
- Wet Weather strawman proposal
Meeting notes - Agenda
- Kansas City Budget 101
- Capital improvement funding
- March 5 public hearing comments
- Wet Weather Solutions – strawman funding alternatives
Meeting notes March 5, 2008
Meeting packet:
- Agenda
- Water services budget overview
- Wet Weather Solutions Survey – draft cross-tabular data
- Revenue evaluation activity summary
- Guiding principles
- Revised customer assistance overview
- System development charge overview
- Water – The Future is Clear, Article Published in KC Star 03/02/08
Feb. 20, 2008
Meeting packet: - Agenda
- Wet Weather Preliminary survey results
- Draft guiding principles
- Public hearing procedure
- Legislative update
- Feb. 6 meeting follow-up items
Feb.6, 2008
Potential revenue sources
Meeting packet:
- Agenda
- Customer profile
- System development charge overview
- Potential revenue sources
Questions?
Contact Erin Ollig at erin_ollig@kcmo.org or (816) 513-0124.April 2, 2008Meeting packet: 
