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Residents and businesses urge Chico council to reconsider steep sewer rate increase; reconsideration to be agendized
Summary
Dozens of residents, landlords, and business representatives told the Chico City Council the proposed sewer rate — described in public comment as an 180% option concentrated in early years — would harm renters, small businesses and the local hospital; the council agreed to agendize a reconsideration.
Dozens of residents, property owners and business leaders urged Chico City Council on April 7 to slow or phase a recently approved sewer rate increase, warning the scale and timing would be economically painful for renters, small businesses and nonprofits.
Bill Seguin, director of facilities at Enloe Medical Center, told the council the hospital’s sewer bill would jump sharply under the selected option: “You are asking me to go from $48,686 … to $370,000 a year,” he said, and…
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