Pavement Maintenance Utility Fee | City of Oregon City

Pavement Maintenance Utility Fee

The Pavement Maintenance Utility Fee report for 2010 & 2011 is now available. See where your utility fee has been going.

It was determined that the residential PMUF rate needed to be $11 per month to simply maintain Oregon City’s roadways. To lessen the impact of the fee on all customers, it was decided that the fee would be phased in over a five year period. The initial rate beginning in July of 2008 was $4.50 per single family residential unit. It will continue to increase for each of the following four years as follows:

July 1, 2009 – June 30, 2010 - $6.00
July 1, 2010 – June 30, 2011 - $7.50
July 1, 2011 – June 30, 2012 - $9.00
July 1, 2012 – June 30, 2013 - $11.22*

*Includes 2% increase for inflation.

Because City Code 13.30.050 specifies that "unit rates shall be adjusted annually to account for inflation in an amount of no more than three percent", a 2% inflation increase for the 2012/2013 fiscal year was agreed upon at the inception of the fee making the fee $11.22 per single family residential unit.

Assuming a 3% annual increase, residents can tentatively expect the following years' rates to be as follows:

2013/14 - $11.56

2014/15 - $11.91

2015/16 - $12.27

City staff will perform a full rate review no less frequently than every five years. If other revenue sources become available for road maintenance, the City Commission shall review the PMUF.

Oregon City's Pavement Maintenance Utility Fee was adopted on May 21, 2008. In accordance with Ordinance 08-1007 that established the fee, the City must publish an annual report which is available below.