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January 11, 2014
The Arlington Times / The Marysville Globe
Arlington foregoes scheduled utility rate increase BY KIRK BOXLEITNER kboxleitner@marysvilleglobe.com
ARLINGTON — The rate increases that had been scheduled for the city of Arlington’s water, sewer and storm water utilities for 2014 were officially rescinded by the Arlington City Council’s unanimous vote on Monday, Jan. 6. “Over the course of the past year, we’ve worked hard to secure more
state and federal grant funding,” city of Arlington Public Works Director Jim Kelly said. “We’ve also produced more of our own drinking water, drawing it from local wells, which has allowed us to purchase less water from outside sources. These measures have yielded cost savings that we’ve been able to pass on to our citizens and rate-payers.” As such, neither the city’s residents nor its businesses will be see
any increases to the rates that they will be charged on these utilities in 2014. The Council had likewise rescinded the scheduled water rate increases in 2013, but allowed the automatic rate increases for sewer and storm water for that year. Although Arlington Municipal Code calls for automatic rate increases for its water, sewer and storm water utilities each year, based on corresponding annual increases in
the Consumer Price Index for the Seattle-Tacoma-Bremerton metropolitan area, Arlington Mayor Barbara Tolbert agreed with Kelly’s recommendation that the city forego those rate increases this year, especially in light of the money saved last year through the efficient operations of the city’s waste water treatment plant. Arlington’s residential utility customers currently pay a base $32.15
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