Measure on the ballot in the 2020 California General Election in Roseville.
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Get StartedCurrently, Section 10.01 allows the City to provide a broad range of public utility services within and outside its City limits. This Charter Amendment would revise Section 10.01 to prohibit the City from providing retail potable water to new service areas outside the City limits after January 1, 2021. However, the City would still retain the authority to engage in future wholesale water agreements and interagency water transfers and exchanges. Section 10.02 grants to the City Council the power to establish utility rates and charges. Further, for nonresidential electric utility customers, Section 10.02 authorizes the City Council, by ordinance, to delegate the power to fix such rates and charges to the City Manager. This Charter Amendment revises Section 10.02 by removing the authority to delegate to the City Manager the ability to establish nonresidential electric rates. Instead and consistent with public utility rate-setting practices, such rates may only be established by the City Council by ordinance.
A "YES" vote on measure Q is a vote in favor of amending the City Charter by prohibiting the City from providing retail potable water to new service areas outside the City limits after January 1, 2021 and requiring that nonresidential utility rates be set by the City Council by ordinance, rather than by the City Manager.
A "NO" vote on measure Q is a vote in opposition to amending the City Charter by prohibiting the City from providing retail potable water to new service areas outside the City limits after January 1, 2021 and requiring that nonresidential utility rates be set by the City Council by ordinance, rather than by the City Manager.
"Approval of Measure Q will protect the sustainability of our precious water supplies by forbidding retail water service to new development areas outside the City’s boundaries after January 1, 2021, and ensure transparency in rate setting for commercial electric rates by requiring the Council to set the rates by ordinance in a public meeting. There is no fiscal impact. The Charter Review Commission recommends a Yes vote on Measure Q.", in support of Measure Q (Learn more)
Shall Article 10 of the City Charter regarding municipally-owned utilities be amended by revising Section 10.01 to prohibit the City from providing retail potable water to new service areas outside the City limits after January 1, 2021, and by revising Section 10.02 to remove from the Council the authority to delegate to the City manager the ability to establish nonresidential electric rates and to clarify that the Council may establish such rates by ordinance?
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