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1. Executive Summary <br />Figure 3 — Residential Bill Comparison • <br />FY 2024 Rates — Water & Sewer (4,000 Gallons) <br />Barefoot Bay <br />St. Lucie County <br />Fellsmere <br />Fort Pierce Utility Authority <br />Palm Bay <br />Cocoa <br />Port St. Lucie <br />West Melbourne <br />Melbourne <br />Brevard County <br />Stuart <br />Vero Beach <br />Martin County <br />IRCDUS Proposed FY 26 <br />IRCDUS Proposed FY 25 <br />IRCDUS <br />1.3.4 Miscellaneous Fees <br />IRCDUS currently applies miscellaneous fees for the provision of specific services to individual customers. <br />Meter installations, new account initiations, service turn-on/offs, and meter tests are examples of the types <br />of services for which IRCDUS applies miscellaneous fees to recover the costs. The primary intent of • <br />miscellaneous charges is to ensure the recipient of the benefit of a specific service bears the costs <br />associated with providing that service or to influence or promote positive customer behavior. While they <br />represent an average of between 3.0% and 5.0% of overall annual revenue for IRCDUS, to the extent these <br />charges are not recovering costs, the rest of the Utility's customers are subsidizing these activities caused <br />by specific customers. <br />IRCDUS staff performed a detailed review of the processes and associated costs of performing each <br />service behind the miscellaneous fees and identified two new miscellaneous services charges whereby <br />IRCDUS does not presently charge a fee but incurs costs. Thereafter, Stantec developed the proposed <br />miscellaneous fees considering the potential impacts to customers, comparison to local benchmarking, and <br />IRCDUS' overall cost recovery objectives. Table 4 summarizes the current and proposed fees associated <br />with some of the most used and the two new miscellaneous service fees. Appendix D presents a <br />comparison of IRCDUS' current and proposed miscellaneous fees. <br />Table 4 — Miscellaneous Fees <br />Description <br />AnnualExisting <br />Proposed <br />Occurrences' <br />FY 2024 <br />FY 2025 <br />New Account Fee <br />7,751 <br />$28.41 <br />$25.00 <br />7 Based on FY 2023 as provided by IRCDJS staff. <br />8 <br />