3/12/14 - Hartland Township will be increasing sewer rates in the coming fiscal year as part of a larger system fiscal sustainability plan. Although the rates will be going up for the 2014/2015 fiscal year, officials say the increases should ultimately level off. Sewer rates have increased since 2008 when new construction slowed in the municipality due to the recession and consequently, the number of new connection fees that sustained the system fell dramatically. The current structure relies primarily on user fees rather than connection fees. A fiscal sustainability plan was implemented in 2008 but the township opted to schedule incremental increases in fees, instead of imposing the immediate 95% increase recommended by auditors. the township mitigated impact on municipal sewer users by infusing available dollars in the sewer operations fund in order to gradually increase rates, rather than create undue hardship by nearly doubling rates immediately. Officials say itâs anticipated that the scheduled quarterly increases will level off in 2017 to more closely align with inflation rates. Compete information about the different rate increases is available in the attachment and link below. (JM)
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