Brighton Township Residents Speak Against Sewer Rate Increases
Residents are seeing their first water bills after township board members voted to increase rates in March.
Brighton Township Board of Trustee members heard from several unhappy residents speaking against sewer rate increases during its meeting Monday night. Township Supervisor Tom Murphy said residents are seeing their first quarterly statement since the board approved a $10 increase per residential equivalent unit (REU - average amount of water and sewer consumed per household) in March. The operations and maintenance charge will remain the same at $90 per REU, bringing the new rate to $170.50 per quarter for water and sewer customers. The new sewer rate took effect May 1. Brighton Township resident Mike Mauck, manager of the Woodland Lakes Shore Condo Association, spoke on behalf of 36 families living in the condos. "We're asking for some …
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Mike Palmer
4:41 pm on Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Yes once again the Brighton Township Board of Trustees has buried its head in the sand and passed along another tax increase to the 2077 sewer users, even though the billing came out late due to the leaderships failure to get the budget done on time the impact is the same, another outrageous increase. Since 2007 these Trustees have raised the quarterly fees every year with "no" plan to prevent … more ›