Although no single “official” rate-hike figures have been floated for the coming years , officials recently discussed scenarios that will double the water budget by FY29 and potentially require proportional rate increases if usage remains the same. The Board of Public Works (BoPW), Finance Director Brian Keveny, and consultant Matthew Abrahams started taking a deeper look into FY25 budget outcomes and projections for operating expenses, revenues, and water rates for FY26 and beyond in the May 20 meeting. According to Abrahams’s model, those costs could be fully passed on to ratepayers to cover the annual expense of delivering approximately 40