City utilities rates will jump 9 percent for customers in the 2009/2010 fiscal year and 9.2 percent in the 2010/2011 year, the Sacramento City Council decided Tuesday. The Utilities Department will also need to lay off 38 employees to adopt city budget cuts and because the department needed a rate increase higher than 9 percent, according to the department’s business services manager, Jamille Moens. The department attributes its financial woes to the recession, increased operating costs and new regulatory and environmental requirements. In addition, rates for city utilities services were not increased in the 2008/2009 fiscal year. A divided city council approved the rate increases in a