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New Kent County moves utility fees to new code appendix, approves 4% water and sewer user fee increase
Summary
The Board amended county code to move public utility fees into a new Appendix B and approved a 4% increase to water and sewer user fees and meter fees; the board also adopted a revised public-utility fund budget that defers major utility capital projects and reduces the borrowing plan.
The New Kent County Board of Supervisors on May 20 approved ordinances that relocate public utility fees from Appendix A of the county code to a newly created Appendix B and enacted a 4% increase in water and sewer user fees and related meter fees.
County staff told the board Appendix A will continue to include general government fees while all public utility fees will be collected in the new Appendix B. “Our meter fees are solely based on our cost to purchase meters and have them installed. We just pass that on to the user,” Mr. Hathaway, county staff,…
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