Baltimore’s spending board has signed off on yet another steep three-year hike in the city’s water and sewer rates, set to begin this July.
The Board of Estimates voted 3-2 this morning in favor of the increase, with Council President Bernard C. “Jack” Young and Comptroller Joan Pratt voting against three straight years of 9.9 percent water rate increases ending in June 2022. The sewer rate will also be climbing by 9 percent each year, as will the stormwater remediation fee (known also as the “rain tax”), which hasn’t changed since it was implemented in 2013.
Mayor Catherine Pugh, Department of Public Works Director Rudy Chow and City Solicitor Andre Davis voted in favor of the increase.
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