Customers of monument wat enterprise befo didinon much they will need to rse rates. As weve reported. Town oicials say because smanagnt. They have to dmatically hike the price of water next ye. And th keeincreasing rates percenper ye for the next 5 years. He callation for me for the fit year jump is probably about 4,200 on myater bl extra for thisext year. At the end o6 years, it most doubles. Ts gointo hitbably th poor the wst and our senior citize or fixed incomes. We have a hard decision before , but we need to me it, unfortunely. A vote on the rate hikes is set for march 7th. Therwill be an open house workop before th to hear co fm affeed customers. Well let you knhen ats scdule news5 uoveredew details abouthtension between City Management and the rank and file at the Pueblo Police department. A recent police ion suey found 94 out of 99 members suppora vote ono cfidence in chief luis velez. Letters reased afterhe survey by bothhehief and the union each higig a need for more officer
Than joaa. Today. Colorado springs city council will vote whether to approve a major rate decrease r colorado sprgs utilities customers. The utility has overcollected morehan 28milon dollars from electric and natural gas stomers since oil prices stard drping. D as a notforprot utility, th excess renue must be retued to customers in this case, in the form of more an 9dla offr f the erage residential cuomer for at least next month and when it goes down like it has over t last 6 months to ar, allf thatavings gets passed ono r customers. Coeral and indusia customers wod so see b rate drees city council will vo oth proposal ts teoon well let you know what they decide. Looking aheafor you. At thetate capti tomorrow, a coittewill hearbout a bill that would p new limitsn where heroin addis could purrchase thadone. The bill was put forward by monunt republican paul lundeen and but was aigned to thstate, vetens, and military affairs committee. Some lawmars call that the Kill Committee where bill