The other part is a detailed accounting of your bill and may be retained by you for your records. Each bill is based on a meter reading taken approximately one week to ten days before you receive your bill. If you have a city water meter, your utility bill will reflect a present meter reading and a previous meter reading. The previous meter reading is the meter reading on which your previous bill was based. The amount of water used during the service period will be reflected as consumption.
Adjustments reflect any modifications to the billed amount.
Payments are any payments received since your last bill. Past due is the accumulative total not paid before the current bill. Water Supply represents the charges for the water you used during the service period. Minimum Service Availability is a fixed-rate charge based on the meter size and helps to pay the cost of maintaining and reading your meter, as well as billing and computer costs. Financially, Public Utilities is a separate fund of the City, and as such, the department is taxed in the same manner that the electric and phone utilities are taxed.