Rising Rates

Tonight I will be attending the City Council meeting. I hope to hear progress on any methods that the city has been working on to help reduce the per resident costs. If I learn anything concrete, I'll be sure and share it.

The big topic tonight will be the raising of monthly user fees for utilities. I understand some residents are upset that the monthly price is going up. This is always to be expected. Noone wants to pay more to flush the potty. I don't blame anyone for the feelings, but this is another of the things that I have some information on in my ever growing data file.

According to Chuck Pavlos, we're reaching a critical point with the infrastructure at the treatment plants. They will need to increase capacity on the southern plant, before SW4 can fully come online. They are also talking about the needs to 'prime the pump' of the North plants, during the rollout of the SW5/6/7 deployments.

It's a balancing act, but according to my conversation with Philip Tunnah last Wednesday, the process should go smoothly, if they are allowed to build the necessary upgrades according to the timeline. They have the general plan well laid out, and ready to go. We as a city will just have to fund it. I'm sure that's going to make for yet more interesting nights at Council.