Plano residents can expect to see higher prices on their water, sewage and trash bills after Oct. 1.<\/p>\n
What residents should know<\/p>\n
The average resident using 10,000 gallons of water, 7,000 gallons of wastewater and a 95-gallon cart will see a $16 increase on their total monthly utility bill, according to a city news<\/a> release.<\/p>\n The new rates are part of a three-year plan to mitigate an 8% cost increase from the North Texas Municipal Water District<\/a>, per previous<\/a> reporting. The city first phased in one-third of the necessary wholesale rate in FY 2024-25 and has now approved its full wholesale rate for FY 2026-27, according to the presentation.<\/p>\n The background<\/p>\n NewGen Strategies and Solutions LLC<\/a> provided a presentation about the city’s water rates at a budget work session Aug. 13<\/a>.<\/p>\n Director of Budget and Research Karen Rhodes-Whitley said while most city budgets were not approved at the time of the meeting, the city expects to have a lower water rate than other nearby cities. Both McKinney<\/a> and Frisco<\/a> approved 9% water rate increases for FY 2026-27, per previous reporting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Plano residents can expect to see higher prices on their water, sewage and trash bills after Oct. 1.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[153398,73455,160,153399,718,162,161,153400,118712,153397,53511,8736],"class_list":["post-444370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-karen-rhodes-whitley","tag-north-texas-municipal-water-district","tag-plano","tag-plano-bills","tag-plano-budget","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news","tag-plano-utility-bills","tag-sewer-rates","tag-trash-bills","tag-utility-bill","tag-water-rates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}