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MWPAAC rates and finance

The Rates and Finance subcommittee meets the first Thursday of each month.

 The Rates and Finance subcommittee reviews and evaluates financial policies and WTD assumptions used in determining King County's established sewer rates, capacity charge, operating budget, and capital programs.

Select year below to view meeting materials.


Subcommittee meetings:

First Thursdays
8:30 a.m. – noon

See 2024 Meeting Calendar for location and dates.

Meeting materials

Below is a listing of meeting agendas, presentations, meeting summaries, and speakers' information from the MWPAAC meetings. All meeting materials are available in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF).

List of commonly used acronyms in the King County Wastewater Treatment Division

2024 meetings

Meeting Documents
January 2024 No meeting
February 1, 2024 Agenda, Summary, Long-term Capital Needs Methodology Recommendation, Preliminary 2025 Rate-setting Policy Direction and Operational and Capital Investments
March 7, 2024 Agenda, Summary, 2025 Proposed Sewer Rate Briefing
April 4, 2024 Agenda, Summary
May 2, 2024 Agenda, Summary, Capacity Charge Review Study - MWPAAC Refresher 2
June 6, 2024 Agenda, Summary, Overview of Policies that Determine Wholesale Sewer Cost Allocation
July 2024 No meeting
August 1, 2024 Agenda, Summary, City of Renton/King County Wastewater Treatment Division (WTD) Reclaimed Water Feasibility Study, Combined Sewer Overflow Consent Decree Modification
September 5, 2024 Agenda, Summary
October 3, 2024 Agenda, Plumbing Fixture Unit Table Update, Summary
November 7, 2024 Agenda, Summary, Regional Wastewater Services Plan (RWSP) – Scoping and Comment Matrix, DRAFT Scoping Document for Updating the RWSP, RWSP Update Scoping Document Comments, RWSP – Discussion of Draft Early Code Updates, Working Draft Early Code Updates
December 5, 2024 Agenda, Summary, 2020 Decennial Flow Monitoring Update and Next Steps, Puget Sound Nutrients Briefing

2023 meetings

 

Meeting Documents

January 5, 2023

Agenda, Summary, Rate-setting Policy Direction

February, 2, 2023

Agenda, Summary, 2024 Sewer Rate Process
March 7, 2023 Agenda, Summary, WTD Staff Proposed 2024 Sewer Rate and Capacity Charge
April 6, 2023
Agenda, Summary, 2024 Sewer Rate Capital Projection, Conveyance System Improvement (CSI) Program Update Status
May 4, 2023 Agenda, Summary, Depreciation and Cash Funding Approach, Original Cost Depreciation Funding Strategy Example, Capital Cash Funding Targets
June 1, 2023 Agenda, Summary
July 2023 No meeting
August 3, 2023 Agenda, Summary, SPU’s Wastewater Source Control Programs
September 7, 2023 Agenda, Summary, Long-term Capital Needs Forecast
October 5, 2023 Agenda, Summary, Wastewater Treatment Division (WTD) Survey of Local Agency Rates, Cash-Funding Capital
November 2, 2023 Agenda, Summary, Rate-Setting 101
December 7, 2023 Agenda, Summary, Long-term Rate and Capital Planning Study

2022 meetings

 

Meeting Documents

January 6, 2022

Agenda, Summary, Review of Adopted 2022-2031 Sewer Rate Plan and Preliminary 2023 Rate-setting Policy Direction, 2023 Sewer Rate Development Goals and Schedule, Capital Projects – Coal Creek

February 3, 2022

Agenda, Summary, Preliminary 2023 Rate-setting Policy Direction and Operational and Capital Investments

March 3, 2022

Agenda, Summary, Sewer Rate Discussion

March 10, 2022

Agenda, Summary, 2023 Sewer Rate Process - Preliminary Rate-setting Operational & Capital investments

April 7, 2022

Agenda, Summary, MWPAAC Work Plan 2021 Poll Results and 2021/22 Presentations, Potential MWPAAC 2022 Work Plan Items

May 5, 2022

Agenda, Summary, Cost Estimating for Wastewater Infrastructure

June 2, 2022

Agenda, Summary, Work Plan Discussion (June 2022 - May 2023) V2, Work Plan Poll Spring 2022, 2022 Work Plan, Resource Recovery Section Updates
July 2022 No meeting
August 4, 2022 No meeting
September 1, 2022 Agenda, Summary, Capital Program Cash-Funding Policy Refresher
October 6, 2022 Agenda, Summary, 2022 Cash-Funded Capital Policy Review for 2024 Sewer Rate Setting, Financial Policy Review Cash Funding Alternatives
November 3, 2022 Agenda, Summary
December 1, 2022 Agenda, Summary, Rate Setting 101

2021 meetings

 

Meeting

 Documents

January 7, 2021

Agenda, Summary, WTD Reports and Provisos 2021, Excerpt from King County Biennial Budget Ordinance 19210 – 2021/2022 Biennial Budget, Rate Setting 101

 

February 4, 2021

Agenda, Summary, Preliminary Wastewater Treatment Division 2020 Financial Performance, 2022 Sewer Rate and Capacity Charge Development Goals and Schedule, Asset Management – Conveyance, Asset Management – Conveyance

March 4, 2021

Agenda, Summary, 2022 Sewer Rate Proposal

 

April 1, 2021

Agenda, Summary, 2022 Sewer Rate Discussion, Asset Management – Condition Monitoring Program

 

May 6, 2021

No meeting

 

June 3, 2021

Agenda, Summary, Overview of Sewer Rate Cost Structure Report;

 

July 1, 2021

No meeting

 

August 5, 2021

Agenda, Summary, Draft Sewer Rate Cost Structure Report, Draft Proviso Report Summary Highlights - Sewer Rate Cost Structure

 

September 2, 2021

Agenda, Summary

 

October 7, 2021

Agenda, Summary, Capacity Charge Review Study, Updating the Plumbing Fixture Table, Capital Projects – Georgetown Wet Weather Treatment Station

November 4, 2021

Agenda, Summary

 

 December 2, 2021

Agenda, Summary, Wastewater Treatment Division (WTD) Capital Program Cash Funding, Clean Water Plan Updates, Capital Projects – North Mercer Island and Enatai Interceptors Upgrade Project

 

 

2020 meetings

 

Meeting Documents

February 6, 2020

Agenda, Summary, 2019 Financial Performance, Overview of Sewer Rate Schedule and Process

 

March 5, 2020

Agenda, Summary, 2021 WTD Sewer Rate: handout 1 and handout 2

 

April 2, 2020

Agenda, Summary, WTD’s Priority Asset Management Needs; 2021 Sewer Rate Proposal Alternatives Update, and WTD Financial Risk Evaluation – COVID-19; Summary of Potential 2021/2022 Operational Investments

 

April 15, 2020

Agenda, Summary, Executive’s Proposed 2021 Sewer Rate, Requested Supplemental Materials, 10-Year Projection WTD Operating Budget

 

May 7, 2020

Agenda, Summary

 

June 4, 2020

Agenda, Summary, Asset Management History

 

August 6, 2020

Agenda, Summary, Capital Funding Analysis

 

September 3, 2020

Agenda, Summary, 2021 Rate-Setting Operating Forecast

 

October 1, 2020

Agenda, Summary, Asset Management - South Plant, Rate Plan Strategy

 

November 5, 2020

Agenda, Summary, COVID-19 Revenue Impact Estimates and Reserves Management

December 3, 2020

Agenda, Summary, Asset Management – West Point, Adopted 2021-2022 Biennial Budget & 2022 Rate-Setting Goals

2019 meetings

 

 Meeting Documents

January 3, 2019

Agenda, Summary, Capacity Charge: Affordability Study, Structure Study Overview; Industrial Waste Fees: Presentation, Draft Public Rule, Industrial Waste Fee Update fact sheet, Draft Compliance Monitoring and Administration Fees fact sheet, Draft Issuance Fees fact sheet

February 7, 2019

Agenda, Summary, WTD 2018 Financial Performance - Summary Key Messages, 2020 Sewer Rate and Capacity Charge Development Schedule

March 7, 2019

Agenda, Summary, 2020 Sewer Rate and Capacity Charge Proposal, WTD's Local Public Agency (LPA) Program Process Evaluation

April 4, 2019

Agenda, Summary, Capacity Charge Affordability Study

May 2, 2019

Agenda, Summary, Customer Service Portal, WTD Energy Efficiency Work

June 6, 2019

Agenda, Summary and Capacity Charge Affordability Q&A, Local Public Agency (LPA) Program Process Evaluation Update 

August 1, 2019

Agenda, Summary, Capacity Charge Rate Study and Recommendations from Work Group and Draft Memo

September 5, 2019

Agenda, Summary, Capacity Charge Rate Structure Recommendation, Local Public Agency Program Improvements

October 3, 2019

Agenda, Summary

November 7, 2019

Agenda, Summary, Capacity Charge Rate Structure Preferred Option, King County Omnibus

December 5, 2019

Agenda, Summary, Rate Setting 101, and RCEs and New Connections
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