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Updated: 7:00 PM May 15, 2008
Another rate hike could be coming to KUB customers
You've heard it before. Now, you may soon be paying more on your KUB bill.
Posted: 6:53 PM May 15, 2008 |
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) -- You've heard it before. Now, you may soon be paying more on your KUB bill.
Thursday the utility's board approved a $876 million budget for 2009.
Passing on its first reading was a proposal to increase the wastewater rate by eight percent.
KUB says the rate increase has been in the plans for the last four years, as part of a project to upgrade wastewater systems.
Utility spokesperson Jennifer Fern says, "Each time that we have an increase that we considered earlier on, that comes up, we will be presenting that to the board. So, this is just one of those, you know we had two 50 percent rate increases earlier in the program, and this is just one smaller increase."
For the increase to go into effect, it will have to pass on a second reading at the boards meeting in June.
If it does, the average customer will pay about $3.40 cents more on their monthly bill, starting in October.
Latest Comments
ridiculous! people are barely getting by -trying to raise kids and some people losing their jobs and left unemployed and then we have kub who KEEPS raising the rates making it impossible for some people! now just exactly how many times in the past year have we seen a rate hike? i see things like this and think of people who are on fixed incomes, people who have asthma and people with cystic fibrosis, cardiac people all who need air and have existing medical conditions and we ALL know the cost of health care is just as bad, but they have all those expenses as well. sad to say, but looking at things, not just in this state, but the country as a whole, in a few short years, it will be just like a 3rd world country.
How can the executives at TVA look at themselves in the mirror each morning?People have it hard enough right now with gas prices,grocery prices etc,without kub adding to it.The ones approving these rate hikes should be deeply ashamed of themselves.But I suppose they are getting rich off of others,so they probably don't care.
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