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Reports Say Tacoma Power Will Increase Rates Beginning Next Month
Rates will increase 5.8 percent this year, then again next year.
customers will see a 5.8 percent increase in their bills next month, then another next year.
The News Tribune is reporting that the Tacoma City Council approved the increases for the cash-strapped utility tonight. The average increase for a customer's bill will be around $5.
Officials told the newspaper that the utility's overall budget is down more than 10 percent.
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Last month, Ted Coates, Tacoma Power superintendent, told the University Place City Council that the last rate adjustment came in 2005.
One City Councilman, Javier Figueroa, expressed concern that the the increases in rates wouldn't stop at the end of the utility's 2011-2013 fiscal biennium.
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"The magnitude of those rate increases are not know yet," he said.
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