City planning $20 rate hike

Posted on September 8, 2021

During a Tuesday, Aug. 31, budget workshop, city council members gave preliminary approval to a proposal that will balance a $1.1 million shortfall in the fiscal year 2021-22 budget by increasing the average customer’s utility rates by an estimated $20 per month and slashing proposed expenditures.

In what City Manager Taylor Brown calls a “new beginning” in how the City of Perry will operate moving forward, the city council gave tentative approval to a proposal that “basically balances the whole budget and stops the bleeding from reserves” by raising $600,000 in new utility revenue and cutting more than $500,000 in proposed expenditures.

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