A committee set up to look at how to reduce fees for water quality, suggested Thursday that funding for the city’s program should be slashed by more than half.
“I know it’s not as much as you wanted, but it’s as much as we can give,” said Bill Raines, chairman of the independent committee set up by the City Council to look at water quality, or stormwater, fees.
On Thursday the committee approved 7-0 a recommendation to the City Council that would cut funding of the city’s water quality program by 53.5 percent, dropping from $21.5 million to $10 million annually.
PDF: water quality doc.
Council Chairman Jack Benson said he thought 100 percent of the nine-member council would go with the independent committee’s recommendation. But he said if the city can prove a larger budget is needed, the council would go that route.