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Cape Girardeau council to put water-rate charter amendment on August ballot to lift 5% cap
Summary
Council voted to place a charter amendment on the Aug. 5 ballot that would raise the annual cap on water, sewer and solid-waste fee increases from 5% to 15% so the city can fund planned water-treatment and distribution improvements.
The Cape Girardeau City Council voted to place a charter amendment on the Aug. 5 ballot that would raise the city’s cap on annual water, sewer and solid-waste fee increases from 5% to 15%, City staff said.
City staff summarized the case to the council as a funding fix for an aging water system that staff estimates requires roughly $56.5 million in treatment and distribution improvements in the next 10 years, with additional work bringing the total to about $63 million over a longer horizon. Miss Mills, a city staff member who presented the proposal, said the charter’s current 5% cap “is not workable in our existing circumstance, so” the change is needed to maintain…
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