Village Board moves forward with plan to create new utility to pay for millions in sewer improvements.
Most Whitefish Bay homeowners would pay about $400 per year to help pay for storm sewer improvements, if the village goes forward with creating a new storm water utility. The Village Board Monday took a step toward the creation of the utility that will be used to fund an annual average of $2.35 million in storm sewer improvements over the next 15 years. The village has spent about $816,000 per year on storm water improvements over the last four years, and the approved 15-year capital improvement plan would nearly triple the village's annual expenditures. The village's ability to raise property taxes is limited by state levy limits, so a storm water utility would allow the village to fund those planned sewer improvements. But unlike …
Village officials will discuss the creation of a storm water utility system that charges each property in the village based on its storm water impact.
The creation of a future storm water utility district will be discussed Thursday night at Cumberland School. Under a storm water utility system, all users - including schools, churches and other tax-exempt groups – would pay for their portion of the storm water system's expenses. A storm water fee will be charged based on each property's storm water impact, similar to the way utility fees are applied to water and sanitary sewer users, Consultants and village officials will introduce the first phase of the storm water utility process at 6 p.m. Thursday in the Great Room of Cumberland School. "We're going to be going over the need for a storm water utility, and go over the calculations and estimates to see how different methods are priced …
The Whitefish Bay Village Board has hired a consultant to create a storm water utility that would charge fees to residents and tax-exempt organizations based on their impact to the village's storm water system.
Whitefish Bay is moving forward with a storm water utility that would charge fees to residents and tax-exempt organizations based on their impact to the village's storm water system. The Village Board unanimously awarded a $73,810 contract to AE/COM/Crispell, the second-lowest bidder of the four firms that submitted a proposal to design and implement Whitefish Bay's future storm water utility. The firm bid $67,100, and the village added an additional 10 percent contingency into the budget. The lowest bidder, Clark Dietz/Triology, did not meet the village's specificiations. Village staff hopes to adopt the storm water utility in July. The development of the utility consists of three phases, and under the contract, the village has the option…
Bob McBride
6:24 am on Thursday, May 2, 2013
But hey, if the we all got together and came to a common sense agreement maybe some of those posters would see there really is power in numbers. I won't hold my breath however. *************** We do that periodically. They're called elections. As for this issue, there have been a number of informational meetings put on by the Village regarding the sewer project, it's status at any given point in … more ›