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SALEM City Utilities Commission members said they’ll review recommended sewer rate increases over the next few months before taking any action.
Whatever they decide, Salem City Council members will have final say on whether to increase the sewer rates.
The sewer rates have not been touched since 1995 that’s 25 years while the cost of doing business and complying with state mandates have continued to rise every year.
A study by the Rural Community Assistance Partnership (RCAP) said the city should enact a $13 per customer increase on the monthly minimum sewer bill and a 2.10 percent increase to the monthly sewer usage rate this year. The study also recommended a $5 per customer increase to the monthly minimum sewer bill and 2.10 percent increase to the monthly sewer usage rate for each additional year through 2025.
Amid warnings, Oregon law enforcement say they re ready for more violent protests Joe English, KATU Staff
Police chiefs in Portland and Salem say they ve been warned by federal officials about the potential for more civil unrest in the days before next week s presidential inauguration.
At a City Council meeting this week, Salem Chief of Police Trevor Womack told the Council his department is trying to balance public safety and constitutional rights. We find ourselves as your police department, caught in the middle, making judgments and decisions on the fly, so to speak, balancing those two sometimes competing interests, said Womack.
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PERRY TWP. Trustee Chair Steve Bailey said he’s gotten a few calls about garbage not being picked up by one trash hauler.
The issue is one that Salem City Council’s Rules & Ordinances Committee will be discussing during a meeting tonight. Salem City Service/Safety Director Joe Cappuzzello said last week that he’s been getting calls and has been in constant contact with Aarrow Disposal about getting overflowing residential containers picked up.
“The other haulers don’t seem to have the problems that Aarrow’s having,” Trustee Vice Chair Jim Armeni said.
He commented that they’re either having equipment issues or dealing with COVID-19, but he recalled problems two years ago when he had them on Merle Road.
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âBread, milk and eggs were in short supply across Western Virginia Wednesday as wholesalers scrambled to deliver store orders delayed by last weekendâs snow and shoppers stocked up to prepare for more snow expected tonight and Friday.â
âThe largest law firm in the Roanoke region is getting larger. Woods, Rogers & Hazlegrove said Wednesday it has opened two new offices, one through a merger with a six-lawyer firm in Charlottesville and the second with the affiliation of a patent lawyer in Washington, D.C.â
âThe Roanoke Express found itself in the same situation as most Southwest Virginians â digging, digging, digging and getting nowhere fast. In its 6-3 loss to the Charlotte Checkers on Wednesday night, before an announced crowd of 3,666 who shoveled their way through the snow to the Roanoke Civic Center, the Express was snowed under by a blizzard of Checkers goals and never dug out.â