Financial Plans
Fiscal Year 2010/11 Financial Plan
The Fiscal Year 2010/11 Financial Plan was reviewed by the Pima County Regional Wastewater Reclamation Department Advisory Committee. No Board of Supervisors action was required on this plan. The Board previously approved a series of rate increases but required submission of an annual report to the Board regarding the need for those rate increases. The 2011 financial plan serves as part of the annual report.
Fiscal Year 2009/10 Financial Plan
The Fiscal Year 2009/10 Financial Plan received a Public Hearing at the March 9, 2010, meeting of the Board of Supervisors, and Department recommendations were approved.
- FY 2009/10 Financial Plan, February 2010 Final
- Board of Supervisor Agenda Summary, March 9, 2010
- No changes will be made to the volume rate or service fee until July 1, 2010. See Ordinance 2010-11 (unrecorded copy - when recorded this will be available on the Clerk of the Board website).
- Sewer User Fees and Connection Fees - Effective July 1, 2010
- Sewer User Fees and Connection Fees - Effective July 1, 2011
- Sewer User Fees and Connection Fees - Effective July 1, 2012
- Sewer User Fees and Connection Fees - Effective July 1, 2013
Ordinances
RWRD is charged with the responsibility of managing and operating the sanitary sewerage system facilities serving the incorporated and unincorporated areas of eastern Pima County. RWRD is committed to providing dependable and cost effective wastewater collection, treatment and disposal services to its customers.
The Department operates under a specific grant of state legislative authority (Arizona Revised Statutes, Title 11, Chapter 2, Article 4). This statute authorizes Pima County to construct and operate a sanitary sewerage system and to charge fees to recover costs associated with operating the system. RWRD is not dependent upon property or sales taxes; it operates as an enterprise fund generating revenue from sewer fees charged for providing sewerage service to its customers. Pima County also is empowered to issue sewer revenue bonds for the rehabilitation, construction, acquisition and improvement of the sanitary sewerage system.
The Pima County Board of Supervisors adopts the Department's annual operating budget, establishes wastewater rates and fee structures and provides overall policy direction to the Department through the County Administrator. In 1986, the Board also established a nine-member Regional Wastewater Reclamation Advisory Committee (RWRAC) to ensure public oversight of Department activities and to evaluate and make recommendations on short and long-range capital improvement needs, development policies, and revenue/rate structure formulation.
The Department develops a Financial Plan annually to identify what is needed to keep the Department financially sound. This includes the economic projections that determine what rate increases must be implemented to meet current and projected expenditures, including Operations & Maintenance (O&M), and the needs of the Capital Improvement Program (CIP) for capital and debt service funding. The Financial Plan assumptions include forecasted population increases, projected housing starts, estimated inflation factors and potential future bond programs.
