Tuesday, December 21, 1999
Hamilton Co. sewer bills may rise 9.5%
Vote on increase planned Wednesday
BY DAN KLEPAL
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Flushing the toilet will cost the average homeowner in Hamilton County about $25 more next year.
County commissioners are expected to approve a 9.5 percent rate hike for the Metropolitan Sewer District (MSD) on Wednesday.
A 7 percent increase is already being penciled in for 2001. Next year's increase will take effect no later than Feb. 1.
County Administrator David Krings said his staff would look into possibly implementing the rate hike sooner. If that happens, it would slightly reduce the amount of next year's rate hike.
“We're recommending the rate increase across the board, so everybody paying a bill will go up by the same percentage,” Mr. Krings said.
There have been no MSD rate hikes since 1996.
The city is the operator of the MSD, while the county manages the organization and therefore has final say over its budget.
Cincinnati City Manager John Shirey sent county staff a letter saying the increase should be 14 percent spread over the next 12 months.
Commissioners asked Mr. Krings to check into the possibility of smaller increases spread out over a longer period of time.
Commissioner John Dowlin said he would like get back into a pattern of small, annual increases. MSD raised its rates 6 percent in 1995 and 4 percent in 1996.
“The yearly increases take less of a bite,” Mr. Dowlin said.
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