Did you receive a notice that your water and sewer rates will be increasing? If you did, it means the Mayo Administration’s sneaky water rate increase has hit again.
This week, Monroe residents began receiving notices in the mail announcing that water rates and sewer rates automatically increased on May 1st and will show up in the June water bill.
Even though as candidates, Monroe Mayor Friday Ellis, and council members Kema Dawson and Carday Marshall pledged to stop the auto increases and require a vote of a council, for three years neither of them has kept that pledge, allowing the unwarranted increases to continue.
In 2018, the Free Press warned residents that a sewage and water rate increase, if approved, would hit residents hard three years after it passed because it contained a “stealth” mechanism that allowed the increases to go into effect automatically each year without a vote of the council.
Again this month, city residents received notices that there would be a noticeable increase in the water and sewage rate of citizens, but the notices point…
