BRENHAM CITY COUNCIL TO HOLD UTILITY BUDGET WORKSHOP THURSDAY
The Brenham City Council will continue discussions on the city’s utility budget for the upcoming fiscal year at a workshop on Thursday.
The meeting was prompted after the council directed city staff at a previous workshop to reconsider proposed changes meant to increase water consumption revenues to offset shortfalls created by higher service costs.
Specifically, the council asked that a proposal to create a monthly minimum charge of $11.35 for irrigation accounts of all customer classes not apply to residents, only to commercial customers.
The council also directed staff to raise the cap for an increase in water rates for commercial accounts from 10 percent to 12 percent, in order to help absorb the impact from a proposed 26.6 percent rate increase for residential customers.
The council will meet Thursday morning at 8 a.m. at Brenham City Hall.
What really needs to happen is that city needs to live within its means. Like the citizens have do. The citizens do not have a option to raise taxes if they have a budget shortfall.. If there is not enough money then you look for cut else where or you get another job. maybe they need to look at the administration.
Are there still any homegrown brenham citizens on city council? Are there still any homegrown brenham citizens as managers and accountants for city fiscal responsibility? Seems to me that all of the carpetbaggers that are planning, managing, balancing the books; all lack practical experience in running Brenham. It is obvious that the new out of town planners, managers, accountants, eco-development, have given out too many freebies to out of town big city commercial and residential developers and now the local hometown people are paying the bill. It is obvious who the winners and losers are. Developers win. City planners, managers, accounts, eco-development all win with exorbitant paychecks and fringe benefits from the developers. Local citizens all lose, having to foot all of the bills.