
{"id":2763,"date":"2008-06-12T06:23:53","date_gmt":"2008-06-12T14:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=2763"},"modified":"2008-06-12T06:23:53","modified_gmt":"2008-06-12T14:23:53","slug":"owasa-public-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2008\/06\/12\/owasa-public-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"OWASA public hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Board wants comment on rate raise<\/p>\n<p>The Orange Water and Sewer Authority will hold a public hearing tonight (Thursday) to allow customers to speak to the board of directors about the proposed budget for fiscal year 2009, which starts July 1 and includes a 24 percent increase in monthly water and sewer rates. The meeting will be held at 7 p.m. at the OWASA building at 400 Jones Ferry Road in Carrboro.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nUnder the plan, a household using 5,000 gallons per month would pay about $14.50, or about 25 percent more per month.<\/p>\n<p>OWASA cites a projected 13 percent reduction in demand due to conservation and a projected $1.3 million loss in connection fees due to a flagging construction economy as key reasons for the rate increase. Overall, the utility\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s budget is about 2 percent larger than last year.<\/p>\n<p>Contact OWASA by email at webmaster@owasa.org or call 968-4421.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Board wants comment on rate raise The Orange Water and Sewer Authority will hold a public hearing tonight (Thursday) to allow customers to speak to the board of directors about the proposed budget for fiscal year 2009, which starts July 1 and includes a 24 percent increase in monthly water and sewer rates. The meeting&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-land-and-table"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}