Steve,
The past two months they have added a $3 per month drought surcharge to our water bills and next month the sewer rates are going up from $36.85 to $47.90 and the Garbage rates go from $17.51 to $23.85. There will also be a $5 surcharge added to the sewer rates and this is laid out for the next 5 years with the same increases each July. A lot of people around here have already been evicted from their homes because they couldn't pay the increasing utility bills, and now this is coming so there will be a huge amount of people evicted I fear. The main excuse for all of this is to recover lost revenue due to the shrinking tax base. They haven't figured out that all of the people they evicted last year and the first part of this year are a big part of their lost taxes and the more they force out the less they will get. Politicians do not have the ability to think.
Ron
