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Waukee considers 2% utility franchise fee; city says households would still save on average
Summary
Waukee is weighing a proposed 2% franchise fee on natural gas and electric bills that would replace a 1% sales tax on those bills; a speaker at the meeting said the typical household would still save about $209 a year and the city would recapture roughly $1 million in lost revenue.
Waukee is considering a proposed 2% franchise fee on natural gas and electric bills that would replace the existing 1% sales tax on those same bills, an unidentified speaker said.
The speaker told the meeting the city expects the change to be a net increase of about one percentage point for utility customers because the 1% sales tax on utility bills would be removed when the franchise fee is imposed. "The franchise fee would have an impact of about $16 per year for the average Waukee home," the speaker said, adding that the sale of the city's gas utility to MidAmerican…
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