UTILITY BUDGET WORKSHOP THURSDAY FOR BRENHAM CITY COUNCIL

  

Brenham City Councilmembers will hold a workshop tomorrow (Thursday) to continue talks on the city’s utility budget for the upcoming fiscal year.

The meeting was called after a budget workshop last week, when the council directed city staff to reconsider proposed changes intended to increase water consumption revenues to offset shortfalls created by higher service costs.

At last week’s meeting, the council asked that a proposal to create a monthly minimum charge of $11.35 for irrigation accounts of all customer classes only apply to commercial customers, not to residents.

The council also asked staff to raise the cap for an increase in water rates for commercial accounts from 10 percent to 12 percent, in order to lessen the impact from a proposed 26.6 percent rate increase for residential customers.

The council will meet tomorrow morning at 8 a.m. at Brenham City Hall.