Financial Plans

The Fiscal Year 2007/08 Financial Plan for the Pima County Regional Wastewater Reclamation Department received a Public Hearing at the December 11, 2007, meeting of the Board of Supervisors, and Department recommendations were approved. 

View the FY 2007/08 Financial Plan. (1.8 mb)

See Reports for all financial plans.

The Pima County Regional Wastewater Reclamation Department (PCRWRD) is charged with the responsibility of managing and operating the sanitary sewerage system facilities serving the incorporated and unincorporated areas of eastern Pima County. PCRWRD is committed to providing dependable and cost effective wastewater collection, treatment and disposal services to its customers.

The Department operates under a specific grant of state legislative authority (Arizona Revised Statutes, Title 11, Chapter 2, Article 4). This statute authorizes Pima County to construct and operate a sanitary sewerage system and to charge fees to recover costs associated with operating the system. PCRWRD is not dependent upon property or sales taxes; it operates as an enterprise fund generating revenue from sewer fees charged for providing sewerage service to its customers. Pima County also is empowered to issue sewer revenue bonds for the rehabilitation, construction, acquisition and improvement of the sanitary sewerage system.

The Pima County Board of Supervisors adopts the Department's annual operating budget, establishes wastewater rates and fee structures and provides overall policy direction to the Department through the County Administrator. In 1986, the Board also established a nine-member Regional Wastewater Reclamation Advisory Committee (RWRAC) to ensure public oversight of Department activities and to evaluate and make recommendations on short and long-range capital improvement needs, development policies, and revenue/rate structure formulation.

The Department develops a Financial Plan annually to identify what is needed to keep the Department financially sound. This includes the economic projections that determine what rate increases must be implemented to meet current and projected expenditures, including Operations & Maintenance (O&M), and the needs of the Capital Improvement Program (CIP) for capital and debt service funding. The Financial Plan assumptions include forecasted population increases, projected housing starts, estimated inflation factors and potential future bond programs.

See Reports for the PCRWMD Financial Plan Spring 2005, placed on the Board of Supervisors' Agenda (Addendum) for June 7, 2005.

The PCRWRD Financial Plan for Fiscal Year 2003-2004 and related materials are available on the Board of Supervisors Agenda for April 13, 2004 (PDF). On that date, the Pima County Board of Supervisors approved Ordinance 2004-10 relating to Sanitary Sewer Construction, Connection and Fees, with a 6% increase in connection fees; and Ordinance 2004-11 relating to Sanitary Sewer User Fees, with a 4% increase in user fees.

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