HAMILTON — After agenda business items, votes and actions taken by the Hamilton City Council during their Monday, Nov. 2, meeting, Hamilton Mayor Tami Williams also held a discussion period in which she mentioned several proposed ordinances the city wants to update.
Two of those proposed ordinances also carry increases in rates for customers, and the mayor noted twice the increases are not something she or the council wants to do, but have to do because of rising costs, ongoing deficits and the city being forced to annually transfer monies from its general fund to offset city departments which are losing money.
Those two departments include sanitation and water, with some of the council being told by a financial advisor nearly $700,000 more in revenue would be needed to balance out budgets for both departments.
Again, these are proposed rate increases being discussed, and no actual vote has yet taken place. Nothing will happen unless there is a vote.
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