{"id":247689,"date":"2026-04-02T01:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T01:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/247689\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T01:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T01:46:08","slug":"clovis-residents-could-get-first-water-rate-hike-since-2009-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/247689\/","title":{"rendered":"Clovis Residents Could Get First Water Rate Hike Since 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CLOVIS, Calif. (KMJ\/KFSN) \u2014\u00a0Water customers in Clovis could soon pay more when they turn on the tap.<\/p>\n<p>Residents have a chance to voice their opinions on a proposed rate hike.<\/p>\n<p>The city says inflation has driven up the cost of operations and infrastructure, prompting consideration of Proposition 218.<\/p>\n<p>Clovis has not had a water rate increase since 2009, and the city says it needs more funds to maintain service and make improvements.<\/p>\n<p>City leaders continue to host public information meetings.<\/p>\n<p>The next one takes place Wednesday, April 8, at 6 pm in the Clovis City Council Chambers on 5th Street.<\/p>\n<p>This will be the last meeting before the April 20 public hearing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLOVIS, Calif. (KMJ\/KFSN) \u2014\u00a0Water customers in Clovis could soon pay more when they turn on the tap. Residents&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":{"0":"post-247689","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-fresno","9":"tag-fresno-headlines","10":"tag-fresno-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}