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Palmdale Water District to consider rate increase

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Palmdale Water DistrictPALMDALE- The Palmdale Water District plans to consider a rate increase of up to 5.5 percent to customers’ monthly service charges, which would equal about $2.64 a month per residential household, the agency announced this week..

This prospective rate adjustment would provide long-term sustainable reliability, according to PWD officials.

“As part of the Board, we want to ensure that the rate payer’s money is being used responsibly to reinvest in our community,” stated Joe Estes, Board Member for the Palmdale Water District. “Initiatives such as the Regional Groundwater Recharge and Recovery Project is an example of our accountability to both our customers and the city.”

PWD officials said the district’s proposed rate adjustment would amount to less than what most neighboring water agencies charge monthly. Based on a survey of monthly residential rates, Palmdale Water District customers pay an average of $52.45 a month, while local L.A. County Waterworks customers pay $57.47 a month; Quartz Hill Water District customers pay $53.47 a month; and customers in the Rosamond Community Services District pay $65.48 a month, PWD officials noted in a news release.

“Since 1918, the agency has done what is necessary to provide our customers with superior water,” stated Kathy Mac Laren, Board Member for the Palmdale Water District. “Our city and the district have come a long way since then, and we will continue our efforts to innovatively advance and diversify our water portfolio to create the foundation for all city growth endeavors.”

For more information on the Palmdale Water District, including water projects, visit www.palmdalewater.org.

[Information via news release from the Palmdale Water District.]

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Filed Under: Palmdale, Rosamond

21 comments for "Palmdale Water District to consider rate increase"

  1. Robert Alvarado wants to raise rates at the water district then leave and run for Palmdale City Council. He is just like Juan Carrillo Ventura propose a bond [higher taxes] at the school district then run for Palmdale City Council. They both need to be shown the door and told to go away for raising taxes on Palmdale.

    • There’s a pair of winners for you. One claims he was an overpaid and underworked city employee and the other is a Mormon with a wife in Lancaster while he shacks up with his girlfriend in Palmdale. The Dynamic Duo of Dysfunction.

  2. I knew this was going to happen! We’re told to cut down on usage because of the drought and now comes the rate hikes because they aren’t selling as much water! We’ve done our part to conserve, learning to live with dead lawns! I think it’s their turn to tighten their belts!

    • With Kathy “Job Killer” MacLauren running the board, along with her incompetent sidekicks, expect more price increases and more lip service. Wait to you see what she and her pals have in store with AVTA. She might kill jobs for the trades and other unions, but you can bet your bottom that she’ll carry the water for her IBEW union bosses in LA. You think the IBEW donations to Rex’s campaign, the killing of the Kinkisharo manufacturing plant, the deafening silence of BYD’s lack of unionization, the partnership with Lancaster city, and the interference with the medical project in Palmdale is a coincidence? Follow the money, people. Follow the money.

    • I have not seen one cut back at the Water District, they just raise the rates when it cost more. The directors are the highest paid in the Antelope Valley. Vince Dino makes the most from meetings and travels almost as much as Director MacLaren. These two learned how to milk the system by being IBEW leaders. MacLaren is still living high on the hog from the people she supposed to work for.

    • IBEW big shot Kathy [JOB KILLER] MacLaren is living high on the hog while playing fast and loose in killing jobs for the other building trade unions. Why would they put up with this is the real question. Word is they are not very happy.

      • Kathy “Job Killer” MacLauren gets to travel to Alaska and live big while the hard working men and women in the building trade unions struggle for work. “Job Killer” MacLauren helped kill major projects in the Valley. She is shameful.

  3. I remember when i first moved out here just a few years ago…. it was so reasonably priced. Now it has gotten out of hand. And the water taste crappy as well. The water in Los Angeles city taste so much better, and is less expensive.

    • That bitter taste is the dead dreams, the anger, the repressed happiness, and some salts and rocket fuel waste.

  4. All Americans
    I’m so angry. I just watched the movie “13 Hours”. It’s the true story of what happened in Benghazi. It proves how incompetent Obama and Hillary Clintons administration is. This administration has the deaths of our Americans directly on their hands. They did nothing to help. They left them to die. The real Heros are the men who ignored the stand down orders and went in to fight with no back up. Every Person who will be voting in this election needs to watch this movie. Wake Up America!!

    • I just watched The Mummy Returns. It’s the true story of how Brendan Fraser saved the world from the army of Anubis.

      The idea that there are people who get their “truth” from movies makes me wonder if it was worth saving.

      • We absolutely don’t want people voting based on some kind of Inconvenient Truth that is left best to Hollywood….for sure.

        • No question. No one should vote based on “An Inconvenient Truth.” Unfortunately science indicates that climate change is worse than the movie actually portrayed, so voting for nitwits that don’t believe in science is self destructive.

          You one of those nitwits Shane? I thought you claimed you have an education of some sort.

  5. Palmdale Water District Director Kathy “job killer” MacLauren is very close to Mayor Rex Parris and they are working together to unionize Palmdale and create havoc politically. She lives in a whole other world from the rank and file worker that if they only knew how she lives on their dues they would be shocked and appalled.

    • Kathy “Job Killer” MacLauren and Mayor Rex Parris have combined to kill hundreds of jobs locally. Union jobs. Good trade jobs. The seem to only be interested in IBEW while giving the middle finger to all our other union brothers. What is the real reason behind this relationship?

      • Ralph Valador and Kathy “Job Killer” MacLauren are now partnering with Mayor Rex Parris in killing Palmdale jobs! Laborers Local 400 is suing the Oasis Hospital project stopping hundreds of jobs required to build it. The other trades get hurt by these local Maverick leaders only thinking for themselves.

        • What? Another hatchet job by the Kathy “Job Killer” MacLauren cartel? How many of our Union brothers will not have jobs this time? 200? 300? Kathy and her pal Ralph still pull down those big checks so they can take cruises to Alaska while the rank and file struggles to pay the bills. Why are they in bed with Parris and Lancaster?

    • Kathy “Job Killer” MacLauren stopped an electric rail car project that would have helped reduce the carbon footprint and employ hundreds of construction workers. She and her private plane and mansion owning friend Rex have some nerve to lecture anyone about the environment. How do they feel about the rise in Valley Fever? Tearing apart the desert for solar is creating its own set of problems.

      These two are quite the pair. Hypocrites!

  6. This water board is a joke. Raising rates? Why? So Kathy “Job Killer” MacLauren can take more cruises to Alaska and see the effects of climate change, while the union members she screwed over when she killed the Kinkisharo project struggle to find work? Or is is to help Robert “I’m Married to a woman in Lancaster but I live with my girlfriend in Palmdale” pay for his gas money between residences?