{"id":91933,"date":"2025-12-12T15:41:46","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T15:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/91933\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T15:41:46","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T15:41:46","slug":"proposed-water-rate-increase-for-clovis-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/91933\/","title":{"rendered":"Proposed water rate increase for Clovis residents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">CLOVIS, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; Clovis residents could soon be paying more for water.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">City leaders say they will propose a rate increase in January 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">They say it&#8217;s necessary to cover infrastructure costs and to continue providing reliable, efficient water service to customers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The proposal involves a process that will include public hearings and an opportunity for residents to file protests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">While specific dates for those hearings have not yet been set, leaders say they will take place during Clovis City Council meetings early next year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The last water rate hike in Clovis happened in 2019 and included increases to trash pick-up and recycling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">This new proposal only affects water service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The proposed increase has not been finalized but in November, the city council was presented with a proposal of 23 percent per year for three years.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLOVIS, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; Clovis residents could soon be paying more for water. City leaders say they will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[50797,4168,5797,112,114,113,50796,294,50795],"class_list":["post-91933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-50797","tag-city-of-clovis","tag-council-meetings","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-rate-increase","tag-timely","tag-water-bill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91933","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=91933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}