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Sedalia council begins review of broad rate and fee adjustments for utilities and city services
Summary
City staff presented proposed rate and fee adjustments for water, wastewater, sanitation, cemetery services and records requests, saying enterprise funds have not kept pace with inflation and deferred maintenance; council asked for more time and staff will return with a package next week.
Sedalia city officials on July 21 opened a review of proposed rate and fee changes across multiple service areas, with staff saying enterprise charges have not kept pace with rising costs and deferred maintenance. Administrator Wert told the council the city wants to adopt predictable, smaller annual adjustments instead of occasional large increases.
The review covered water and wastewater, sanitation, cemetery fees, building and planning fees, and public records charges. Administrator Wert said many enterprise funds are subsidized temporarily by the general fund or the capital improvements fund; he urged a path to ensure each service pays its true operating and replacement costs.
“Those service charges like the water and the sewer and the solid waste, they’ve gotten to the point they don’t fully cover the cost of providing these services in many instances,”…
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