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This Tuesday the Sacramento City Council will approve authorization for a $20 Million grant/loan funding the first phase of the Water Meter Retrofit Project. The Project will retrofit approximately 11,000 to 13,000 residential and commercial properties within the City of Sacramento with the first phase of the project retrofitting approximately 1,735 services with meters.

Back in 2005, Assembly Bill 2572 (AB 2572) requires the installation and use of water meters by 2025 across the state, including in the City of Sacramento. This law supersedes the City charter. Signed into law by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on September 29, 2004, the water meter retrofit program affects about 120,000 City of Sacramento residential customers.

All metered properties will receive one calendar year of comparative billing before being switched to a metered rate. The first phase will start in the south Sacramento west of Center Parkway and south of Cosumnes River Blvd.

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The Parrhesiac

edited on September 7, 2009 | 8:39 AM

"$20 Million grant/loan" - In other words a new tax. Just who are they going grant/loan the money to themselves?

The answer must be YES...

This means it thye will increase our bills to pay for meters so they can charge us even more...

nice.

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The Parrhesiac

edited on September 7, 2009 | 1:10 PM

No offense meant, but your story simply cannot be true. Any contracts with the City would require the contractor to pay employees a "prevailing wage" which is local union wage scale, BUT, it would be illegal for the city to REQUIRE a contractor to use unionized employees. In fact, over 90% of prevailing wage contracts with the City go to non-union shops.

If your friend has told you he is being "forced" to hire "teamsters" he is not being truthful or he has misunderstood the contract. Being an out of state contractor I could see this happening.

My next question would be, WHY would the City hire an out of state contractor since their is NO BENEFIT, the wage scale is set locally... Also, is he licensed to do work in California as a plumber?

I'm interested in hearing more on this...I think I will look into this.

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The Parrhesiac

September 7, 2009 | 6:26 PM

Thats just very odd....I would assume that it is because he does not have a California contractors license...something is fishy...was he awarded the contract? Is he "partnering" with a CA licensed union contractor?

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The Parrhesiac

September 7, 2009 | 9:46 PM

This article appears to be factually inaccurate. The staff report on this agenda item says it is to approve $1.8 million.

http://sacramento.granicus.com/MetaViewer.php?view_id=8&event_id=94&meta_id=183370

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