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Ishpeming council authorizes Waterworth utility rate-management service, waives bidding
Summary
The council authorized the city manager and city attorney to move forward with Waterworth's continuous utility rate-management service using water and sewer funds and waived competitive bidding. The vendor showed a data-driven rate modeling tool and recommended multi-year, staged rate adjustments to avoid large single-year increases.
The Ishpeming City Council voted to authorize city management to proceed with Waterworth’s continuous utility rate-management service and to waive competitive bidding, with the cost to be borne by the water and sewer enterprise funds.
Waterworth representative Paul, who presented the firm's platform, described the product as a “living, breathing rate study” that maintains up-to-date financial and capital scenarios using a community's meter and billing data. “We developed this platform to basically keep everything up to date, turn into a living, breathing…
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