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Bridgeport council approves raising optional homeowner service-line coverage to $12,000
Summary
The Bridgeport City Council added and approved contract item 11-25, amending an optional homeowner service-line protection plan to increase per-home coverage from $8,500 to $12,000; the program is optional for homeowners, carries monthly premiums (from $5.99), and the city will receive a $30,000 incentive over three years, the council heard.
Council members voted to add and approve a contract (item 11-25) that expands an optional homeowner water/service-line protection program and raises the maximum per-household coverage from $8,500 to $12,000.
Councilwoman Dasha Spell, who moved the suspension to add the contract to the agenda and sponsored the amendment, said the company presenting the plan is “actually out of Philadelphia” and that “what it’s giving the city is $30,000” spread over three years as an incentive. She also said the company will hire local workers when it does repair work.
Councilman Ernie Newton, a member of the contracts committee, described the product to colleagues and…
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