Sunrise Engineering briefs Mona council on natural-gas impact-fee analysis

Jack Clackner, the engineer who prepared the analysis for Sunrise Engineering, briefed the council on a proposed natural gas impact-fee structure. He said the analysis used the 2024 natural gas master plan to convert existing loads into "equivalent residential" connections and allocate project and system improvement costs across those connections.

"We started with the 2024 natural gas master plan," Clackner said, describing how commercial and industrial loads were converted to residential-equivalent demand and how project improvements (developer-specific) differ from system improvements (benefits for existing customers).

Clackner explained there is currently no excess capacity in Mona's distribution system and that adding a regulator station or additional piping would create excess capacity and require recalculating the fee. He gave example fee components in the presentation and said further modeling would be required to show how a new regulator or pipe alignment would change the per-connection fee.

Council members asked about eligibility for the Community Impact Board (CIB) and the CIP project portal; staff confirmed the reg-station and related gas-line projects are listed on the project portal and therefore eligible to be considered for CIB funding when applications are accepted.

Clackner offered to follow up with more detailed calculations if the council pursues a regulator-station option and recommended coordination with neighboring jurisdictions where feeder connections exist.