(Okoboji)– Another increase in water rates is proposed for Okoboji residents.
City Administrator Dennis Daly tells KUOO news the city council will consider the first reading of an ordinance Tuesday (3/9) that would increase the minimum usage rate by 20-dollars a quarter.
Daly says the increase is needed to help offset the costs of extending a water main last year and for the ongoing upgrade of the Central Water System water treatment plant, which also serves the city of Arnolds Park. That city has also been seeing increases in rates as a result of the project.
Daly says the increase, if it receives final adoption, would go in effect this coming July 1st.
It would be the second increase in a little more than a year.
