It's budget time for the city of Nevada

Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Kristie Modlin, city treasurer; JD Kehrman, city manager; Bev Baker, city clerk; city council members, Jayne Novak, Brian Leonard, Blake Hertzberg, Ryan Watts and Lance Christie, spent about two hours Monday studying proposals for the city's 2016 municipal budget. Ralph Pokorny/Daily Mail

Nevada Daily Mail

The Nevada City Council held its first of three scheduled budget work sessions Monday evening at the Franklin P. Norman City/County Community Center.

Monday's work session was devoted to the streets, water and sewer. City treasurer Kristie Modlin told the council that she is proposing the city needs to increase the water rates by 3 percent and the sewer rates by 1 percent in 2016. She said that a water customer using 5,000 gallons per month with a current bill of $85.88 would see an increase of $1.82 with the new rates.

Long term the city is planning to replace all of the water meters in town with ones that can be read remotely. With that in mind Modlin told the council she is proposing the city only replace meters that are either dead or nearly dead during 2016, while the city works on a plan to replace all the meters, possibly in 2017.

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Water Privatization was a mistake and we are now paying for that mistake. Claims of cost savings were false and rate hikes are showing us how we would be mush better off going back to a public utility for water.

-- Posted by loy122 on Tue, Oct 20, 2015, at 1:14 PM
Let's see here we have a not for profit City service being run by a profit driven entity do the math these rates will continue to increase as long as the private company has to give pay raises to their employees, while demanding an increase in contract amount to drive profits. WAKE UP NEVADA

-- Posted by thestirrer on Sat, Oct 24, 2015, at 11:57 AM
This is what's happening: the city knows how much water is going out...but the amount of money that they are billing isn't covering the cost of the water output. So they KNOW there are some leaks and by putting newer meters on houses they can bill for exact water output. Anyone see the fundamental FLAW with this plan???? If there are leaks why not fix the structural problems rather than a put a high cost band aid on and every year ask for more money because if you don't fix the big problem first, that problem will just get bigger and bigger.....isn't that what we pay these a**hats to realize and take care of???

-- Posted by aheadofthecurve on Tue, Oct 27, 2015, at 9:31 AM

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