The rate hike would increase water and sewer bills an average of about three dollars each, per month. That includes a two-dollar increase to the base rate and for water, about twenty-cents per 1,000 gallons of water used.
) - The Fairhope City Council will be taking a look at raising water and sewer rates. An ordinance is set to be introduced at Thursday night’s meeting on February 15, 2024 for discussion. This comes as the city brings a new water well online, upping the daily capacity by two-million gallons.
Ordinance with proposed utilities rate hikes will be introduced for discussion at the Fairhope City Council meeting Thursday, February 15, 2024“I felt the need to just bring it before the council and the public to discuss it and talk about what type of rate increases, we could expect and over the last several years, we’ve had inflation run anywhere from six, eight, nine percent, so you know cumulatively, fifteen, seventeen, twenty percent inflation over the last several years and we haven’t...
“Being a teacher, we never got raises as much as I’d like to have seen but it’s the cost of living,” said Carol Wright. “They’re having to do something, I’m sure, so I understand but not real happy about it.”