{"id":207942,"date":"2026-06-02T01:20:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T01:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/207942\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T01:20:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T01:20:12","slug":"cape-girardeau-city-council-votes-on-first-reading-of-2026-27-budget-utility-fee-ordinance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/207942\/","title":{"rendered":"Cape Girardeau City Council votes on first reading of 2026-27 budget, utility fee ordinance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (KFVS) &#8211; On Monday night, the Cape Girardeau City Council voted on the first reading of the 2026-27 city budget, as well as an ordinance to increase utility fees for the next year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The proposal would add a 15% increase to water, 5% to trash, and 3% to sewer fees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The city council will vote on both ordinances after a second reading at the next city council meeting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">If passed, the new fees will go into effect on July 1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">You can watch the full livestream of the meeting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=w_esHBVg-x0\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=w_esHBVg-x0\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KFVS. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (KFVS) &#8211; On Monday night, the Cape Girardeau City Council voted on the first reading&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[222,91410,990,19364,17774,7316,139,2696,128,130,129,76884,19560,16428,1823,2867],"class_list":["post-207942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-budget","tag-cape-girardeau","tag-city-council","tag-fee","tag-increase","tag-missouri","tag-news","tag-ordinance","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-sewer","tag-trash","tag-utility","tag-vote","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}