Franklin and Caledonia, both of which get water from the , are protesting the utility's proposed 31 percent wholesale rate increase, according to a story from the Racine Journal Times.
The proposed increase, which still needs approval from the Wisconsin Public Service Commission, is being sought to help the utility pay for a $13 million treatment plant expansion completed in 2010, according to the newspaper.
The application was filed to the PSC in May and is subject to change.
While the increase is in the amount those two communities pay for water, Utility General Manager Steve Yttri said it does not mean a resident's water bill will go up that much. As proposed, a typical residential user's bill would go up $7.16 per quarter, and a small residential customer's bill would increase $3.87 per quarter, Yttri said in an e-mail.
The utility previously announced that its investments in technology during the last plant expansion will save rate-payers the equivalent of $10 million in the long term.
Text book defination on the evolution of governing bodies indicates "we" the people would be better off in a socialist society than imperialism. Were not a "republic" and democracy isn't working.
That is why i find Dr Paul a true representitive of the peoples Republic. Its really become a battle of Good and Evil. The Book of Revalations has never been more true and apparent than today.
Are you aware that cops start out at $46,109. per year here in OC. If you add on the first year fringe:55,428 thats more than the mean income of the residents. If they stay for five years they are up to 67,228 plus benefits so around seventy grand and they don't even have to live here. I'd like to see the Patriot Act abolished. Get rid of all the TSA employees that do little more than hassle the plane flying public. Anyone can still get onto a plane with everything it takes to make a bomb and they know it.
Put down the gas mask. Come out of the bunker. There is a place I think both of you will feel comfortable. "Ruby Ridge". This discussion is about water rates rising. Not Obama, Biden, TSA. Do you have any input on it, or are you going to just rant.