Mayor Plans to Offset Water Rate Hike by Dropping Other Charges
Mayor David Gonzalez will officially present the plan at the Dec. 17 city council meeting.
Chicago Heights residents will soon see their water rates more than double, going from $2.47 per unit to $5.50 per unit. The big jump comes as the result of the city's supplier, Hammond, Ind., quadrupling the rate Chicago Heights must pay for processed Lake Michigan water. Read: Expect a Larger Water Bill Soon, Chicago Heights In order to counteract the massive increase, Mayor David Gonzalez said he'll be proposing, at the Dec. 17 city council meeting, to remove the oft-questioned community service fee from Heights residents' water bills. "I’m very comfortable that we’re not just going to pass this huge increase and say 'deal with it,'" Gonzalez said in a phone interview. The $38.24 fee is normally added to every water bill, along with …
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Annonymous
11:46 am on Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Well, I think Chris and the Patch should get the credit for the end of the CS fee. After all this fee disappears pretty shortly after Chris starts asking for a reasonable explanation. BTW, nobody seems to have noticed that there's a million dollars a year of water leaking out of the system-- that is what a million gallon a day translates into at the new water rate. My point is that that kind of "… more ›