{"id":21267,"date":"2014-04-06T19:13:10","date_gmt":"2014-04-06T23:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raleighpublicrecord.org\/?p=21267"},"modified":"2014-04-06T11:55:03","modified_gmt":"2014-04-06T15:55:03","slug":"fees-increases-coming-for-water-sewer-maintenance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/news\/2014\/04\/06\/fees-increases-coming-for-water-sewer-maintenance\/","title":{"rendered":"Fees Increases Coming for Water, Sewer Maintenance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Raleigh and Garner residents and property owners should expect to see an increase in the fees associated with their water and sewer bill beginning in July. <\/p>\n<p>If approved with next year\u2019s budget, sewer volumetric rates will increase 4.4 percent from $3.82\/CCF to $3.99\/CCF. A new infrastructure replacement fee is also proposed in order to fund the replacement of the city\u2019s aging water infrastructure. Users with larger pipes will be charged more than users with smaller ones. The replacement fee is expected to raise about $10.7 million in revenue. <img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/fees.png\" alt=\"fees\" width=\"652\" height=\"473\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/fees.png 652w, https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/fees-336x243.png 336w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 652px) 100vw, 652px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>City Councilors preliminarily approved the increase Tuesday in order to begin updating the billing systems and alert the city\u2019s customers to expect a change. Final approval of the increase will come when next fiscal year\u2019s budget is adopted by July 1. <\/p>\n<p>As an enterprise fund, the water and sewer division are not part of the city\u2019s general fund budget. Fees are generally used to raise money to make the division a self-sustaining entity. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Councilors gave a preliminary OK to increase the sewer rates and add a new fee that would fund infrastructure replacement. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24005,"featured_media":21268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[1609,6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21267"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24005"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}