No major changes or newly proposed rates evolved from the Chandler City Council’s most recent work session on planned utility rate increases.

Chandler is still planning a 15% across-the-board utility rate hike for water and wastewater service and 6% for solid waste to start in early March 2026 and to change its cost-of-service review from biannual to annual.

But city leaders and staff now possess important feedback.

City finance director Dawn Lang, speaking Nov. 10 at the council’s third utility rates work session in the past four months, said feedback about the proposed rate increases from a pair of in-person feedback sessions, across social media and in other electronic communications, was limited. But the city did get some useful data.

The in-person sessions were “lightly attended,”

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