Water and wastewater fees to increase 3.8 per cent

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Dec 04, 2009- 11:41 AM

By: Ed Veilleux - Sudbury Northern Life Staff

City council approved a rate increase of roughly 3.8 per cent for 2010 at council on Nov. 30.

The increase was originally pegged in mid-November as an 8.4 per cent increase, but the city managed to trim that number through capital cuts.

At the time of the original 8.4 per cent proposal, staff presented two possible reduction options.

The two options included council cancelling the two per cent inflationary increase on water and wastewater budget, and deferring all Sustainable Asset Management Plan (SCAMP) funding.

"This budget year, given the difficult economic circumstances in our community Council has deferred the SCAMP allocation," said Nick Benkovich, the city's director of water and wastewater.

SCAMP is a funding plan in place since in 2001, after staff and council recognized that historical funding levels for water and wastewater infrastructure renewal were not keeping pace with system requirements, according to Benkovich.

Council's decision to take the options decreased the fee increase to 5.8 per cent.

At a Nov. 23 finance committee meeting, council recommended deferring an additional $1 million from the 2010 capital budget, which reduced the overall rate increase to the current 3.8 per cent.

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5 Comments

  • Its Time For A Change 12/8/2009 3:38:13 PM - Report Abuse

    When water is scarce they tell you to use less, conserve, use rain barrels to wash the car and watter the lawn, only odd # houses on odd # days ect, But when we do too good of a job at water conservation and GSU is no longer making good money they jack up the rates due to a shrinking income margin. Use gasoline for example if it used to take you 10 liters of gas to get to work now the fuel efficient car only uses 5 liters to go the same distance, you can afford to pay twice (2x) as much for that liter of gas so the oil company dosent go broke. Freeking Crooks city council.

  • sandman 12/8/2009 1:14:07 PM - Report Abuse

    Notice how they added the "P" for "plan" at the end of this acronym... for obvious reasons, perhaps the "P" is silent?

    lol, it's funnier that it's going to fel that is for sure!

  • sandman 12/8/2009 1:08:22 PM - Report Abuse

    Perhaps it is time to REVAMP THIS SCAMP?!
    somehow, I still feel like I'm being taken for a ride...
    it sure make it sound like they have been hard at work for us, yet I fail to believe or see the results of their "actions".

  • Bill_1 12/5/2009 10:55:09 AM - Report Abuse

    Isn't this always the scenerio. Water /taxes to increase by 7-9% then when they sharpen their pencils they can reduce it to 3% and let us think they are doing a magnificent job. (I'm sure this will justify bringing additional people to Sudbury).What happened to conserving to save money? It appears if you conserve you will pay more.

  • bcarefulwutuwish4 12/4/2009 8:02:36 PM - Report Abuse

    Gee, what a shock NOT!
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