Kitchener keeps tax increase below 2%, but water and sewer rate going up almost 10%
Posted Feb 24, 2015 05:47:57 AM.
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Kitchener homeowners will pay on average a shade over $19 more on this year’s city property tax bill.
City council has approved the 2015 budget which checks in with a 1.9% tax increase.
There is also however the matter of water and sanitary sewer rates which will climb 9.9%.
That money is aimed at addressing our aging infrastructure.
Those items combined will push the average tax bill up by $96.
Mayor Berry Vrbanovic admits it was a tough decision, but says, “The city has been subsidizing the regional increases for years.”
Those increases, he says, “have been greater than inflation and we have been absorbing a portion of that cost in an effort to soften the blow to our customers. That was no longer sustainable.”
AUDIO – Vrbanovic explains the increase to the water and sanitary sewer rate
