Assistant City Manager Matt Rodrigues (May 21, 2025): “There’s no additional collection costs because this is already billed on our behalf by EWEB. We already pay them a per-a-bill fee that would not change.”
Presenter: What Eugene’s city manager calls ‘the cost of money’ is about to go up. To explain her use of the term, here’s Sarah Medary during budget discussions May 14:
Sarah Medary (Eugene, city manager, May 14, 2025): You know, when I talk about the cost of money, one of the biggest challenges we’re going to have is: How are we going to bill for this additional fee?…
[00:00:19] When we start thinking about collecting a fee, we know that there’s going to be a cost to implement that. There’s some one -time costs, and then there’s going to be an annual cost. So regardless of whether we use a current billing partner or we bring in a new billing partner, we’re going to have to pay for that one time to set it up and annually and I predict it’s going to be close to a million dollars to set it up and it’s probably going to be a million or more to collect it annually. That would be in line with some of the numbers we’ve already seen…