This is because state law requires that costs be apportioned based on a user's benefit from a district. In the case of the Rural North Vacaville Water District, residents living closer to a fire hydrant have greater fire protection and therefore benefit more. These figures include construction and administrative costs. They do not, however, include financing costs. County supervisors also must approve how these cost figures were arrived at when they meet on Tuesday.
Officials hope construction on the district can start no later than next spring.
The district would start supplying water sometime by the summer of 2001. Officials hoped the district would deliver water a year sooner. But that was before they were hit with the inevitable delays. The loan would have provided funds for water projects such as the one north of Vacaville. Best of all, it would have come with a 3 percent rate of interest, meaning the district would not be forced to go out and sell bonds at higher rates of interest to complete its financing.