{"id":36259,"date":"2025-11-17T04:26:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T04:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/36259\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T04:26:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T04:26:07","slug":"pierre-city-commission-approves-second-reading-of-rate-increase-ordinances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/36259\/","title":{"rendered":"Pierre City Commission Approves Second Reading Of Rate Increase Ordinances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PIERRE, (KCCR) \u2014 The news the utility rates in Pierre would be going up five-percent sounded the sirens on social media of frustration. The first reading of three rate change ordinances by the Pierre City Commission brought a wave of questions that Utilities Director Brad Palmer attempted to clarify last week\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/media-cdn.socastsrm.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/3324\/files\/2025\/11\/rateup1.mp3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/media-cdn.socastsrm.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/3324\/files\/2025\/11\/rateup1.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And those rates didn\u2019t come fully to fruition\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/media-cdn.socastsrm.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/3324\/files\/2025\/11\/rateup2.mp3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/media-cdn.socastsrm.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/3324\/files\/2025\/11\/rateup2.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Palmer says part of the reason for the increase in electric is because it\u2019s going to get more expensive for the city to buy electricity to serve the city\u2026.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/media-cdn.socastsrm.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/3324\/files\/2025\/11\/rateup3.mp3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/media-cdn.socastsrm.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/3324\/files\/2025\/11\/rateup3.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Other reasons for the increases include electrical improvements, new water metering technology and water water improvements. The new rates become effective in January of next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PIERRE, (KCCR) \u2014 The news the utility rates in Pierre would be going up five-percent sounded the sirens&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-36259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36259","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=36259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}