Plano City Council officially approved bill increases for water, sewer and trash services in the city at a meeting Sept. 28.<\/p>\n
In a nutshell<\/p>\n
The average resident is expected to see a $16 increase in their monthly utility bill starting Oct. 1, per previous<\/a> reporting.\u00a0<\/p>\n Trash collection services will increase their 95-gallon container, 68-gallon container, commercial cart and extra cart service fees, per city<\/a> documents. The new fees will bring $900,986 more in revenue for the city\u2019s budget.<\/p>\n Also of note<\/p>\n Plano residents will also now pay a $33.40 minimum rate for the first 1,000 gallons of water service, a $2.50 increase from the previous year per city documents<\/a>. The city has been increasing its water rate gradually over three years to align with wholesale water prices from the North Texas Municipal Water District<\/a>, per previous reporting.<\/p>\n Residents who use between 1,001 and 5,000 gallons of water in a month will be charged an additional $1.05 over the previous year. All other tiered costs and the sewer rate will increase by 8%, according to city documents. The new prices are expected to bring more than $18 million in additional funds for the city budget.<\/p>\n The background<\/p>\n Water, sewer and trash rate increases were first discussed by Plano officials at a budget work session meeting in August, per previous reporting. The city\u2019s FY 2026-27 budget was approved at a meeting Sept. 14<\/a>. Budget discussions first started July 30<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Plano City Council officially approved bill increases for water, sewer and trash services in the city at a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[11143,73455,160,18650,162,161,35889,53511,45143],"class_list":["post-452575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-city-budget","tag-north-texas-municipal-water-district","tag-plano","tag-plano-city-council","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news","tag-trash-collection","tag-utility-bill","tag-water-rate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452575","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=452575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}