After hearing two hours of testimony, the city’s Board of Estimates voted Wednesday to approve an increase to the city’s water and sewage rates. Comptroller Joan M. Pratt and City Council President Bernard C. “Jack” Young voted against what amounts to approximately a 33 percent increase in both rates over the course of the next three years.
Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, interim City Solicitor David Ralph and Department of Public Works Director Rudy Chow all voted in favor. The rates will increase an average of 9.4 percent annually for water, and 9 percent yearly for sewage through fiscal year 2019.
