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Residents urge council to back water-affordability action as rates rise
Summary
Speakers at the committee meeting urged support for water-affordability measures after reported regional rate increases and steep reductions in Lifeline program funding, and asked the committee to back state bills cited in testimony.
During public comment to the Neighborhoods Committee, residents urged the council to press for water affordability after citing recent regional rate increases and cuts to assistance programs.
"We've seen a rate increase now of 5.2% average last year... and then this year, we have an average of 6.33%," said Cicely McClellan, who told the committee that…
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