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Sewer and roads fees stay flat, wastewater fees hiking 5% for Yorkville residents · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Sewer and roads fees stay flat, wastewater fees hiking five
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  Speaker 1: percent for Yorkville residents. Written by Joey Weslow, This article
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  Speaker 1: is being read by an automated voice brought to you
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  Speaker 1: by Everlet. With Yorkville residents staring down twenty percent annual
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  Speaker 1: water hikes over the next five years, the city announced
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  Speaker 1: some other infrastructure fees are staying put. While this may
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  Speaker 1: come as a relief to residents, the monthly bills coming
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  Speaker 1: in for wastewater treatment services through the Yorkville Bristol Sanitary
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  Speaker 1: District YBSD are increasing. The city's sewer infrastructure fee will
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  Speaker 1: remain at four dollars per month, and the road infrastructure
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  Speaker 1: fee is staying level at eight dollars per month. The
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  Speaker 1: fees contain a sunset provision of April thirtieth, twenty twenty seven.
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  Speaker 1: The flat rates will first be reflected on residents utility
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  Speaker 1: bills at the end of June. The infrastructure fee has
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  Speaker 1: been in place for the past thirteen years. It was
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  Speaker 1: paired with a separate water infrastructure fee for the past
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  Speaker 1: fifteen years, ranging from four dollars to eight dollars and
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  Speaker 1: twenty five cents a month. The water infrastructure fee was
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  Speaker 1: eliminated in June twenty twenty five and bundled into the
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  Speaker 1: base water rate the city charges. According to city documents,
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  Speaker 1: the city's pass water rate is part of the twenty
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  Speaker 1: percent annual water hikes over the next five years to
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  Speaker 1: help offset the costs for the two hundred and twenty
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  Speaker 1: two point four million dollars Lake Michigan water sourcing project.
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  Speaker 1: The city's road infrastructure fee was first implemented in twenty fourteen.
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  Speaker 1: The fee was adopted to help pay for the city's
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  Speaker 1: Road to Better Roads program and other roadway overhauls. The
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  Speaker 1: City Council approved the flat rates at the April twenty
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  Speaker 1: eighth meeting. Wastewater hikes. In addition to the annual two
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  Speaker 1: percent rate increases to user charges for all account types,
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  Speaker 1: YBSD is hiking residentdential rates by five percent. The two
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  Speaker 1: percent rate increase became effective May first, while the five
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  Speaker 1: percent hike will be reflected on the July billing cycle.
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  Speaker 1: According to ybsd's website, YBSD is not funded by the
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  Speaker 1: City of Yorkville through property taxes. The agency independently collects
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  Speaker 1: fees to cover its operations and improvements. According to ybsd's
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  Speaker 1: online fee schedule. Non residential users will see an even
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  Speaker 1: steeper rate increase, with hikes between ten to twenty percent.
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  Speaker 1: Cyrus mcmain's executive director previously said that non residential rates
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  Speaker 1: had been historically low before the board agreed to better
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  Speaker 1: align them with other rate payers. Last year, YBSD increased
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  Speaker 1: residential rates by four point three percent and non residential
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  Speaker 1: rates by fi fifteen to twenty percent.