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100 million dollars put into loan program.
March 4, 2021 6:39 PM
Zachary Dodge
HUMBOLDT, Kan. – “Typically we get billed about 35 thousand dollars a month. We’ve been advised that the estimate for February’s cost will be 1.6 million dollars,” explains Humboldt City Administrator Cole Herder.
It sounds like something you might hear in a movie or some other work of fiction. But for the City of Humboldt, this worst-case scenario is all too real.
“Our customers can’t stand that kind of a bill in one month. It just would bankrupt everybody,” says Herder. “That’s just unheard of. Our annual budget for the gas supply is about 375 thousand dollars. And we budget above what we think we’re gonna need.”