RATE HIKES NEEDED FOR SEWER SERVICE HOMEOWNER COST WILL MORE THAN DOUBLE.Byline: Charles F. Bostwick Staff Writer LANCASTER - Sanitation officials have scheduled hearings for August to consider more than doubling homeowners' sewer fees over the next three years in Lancaster and Palmdale. Sanitation officials must vote by Aug. 19 to meet the next tax-bill deadline for upping sewer fees in Palmdale from $71 a year to $101 - and to $161 by 2006-07 - and in Lancaster from $67 a year to $98 a year - then $160 by 2006-07. ``They will be holding a public hearing. Depending on the results of the public hearing the next action is to introduce the ordinance,'' said sanitation official Don Bruns, head of financial planning Financial planning Evaluating the investing and financing options available to a firm. Planning includes attempting to make optimal decisions, projecting the consequences of these decisions for the firm in the form of a financial plan, and then comparing future performance against and property management. The fees must be increased to pay for expanding and upgrading the two communities' sewage treatment Sewage treatment Unit processes used to separate, modify, remove, and destroy objectionable, hazardous, and pathogenic substances carried by wastewater in solution or suspension in order to render the water fit and safe for intended uses. plants, county officials say. The Lancaster plant is under orders from state regulators to stop treated effluent effluent waste from an abattoir carried away in liquid form. Disposal is a major problem because of the need to avoid pollution of waterways. See aerobic effluent treatment, anaerobic effluent treatment. from overflowing onto Edwards Air Force Base's Rosamond Dry Lake, and the Palmdale plant is under orders to reduce nitrogen pollution from reaching groundwater. The Lancaster hearing will begin at 7 p.m. Aug. 12 at the Lancaster Library, 601 W. Lancaster Blvd. The fees - which apply to some homes in west Palmdale - will be voted on by Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County Sanitation District 14's board, which consists of Lancaster Mayor Frank Roberts Frank Roberts may refer to:
The Palmdale hearing will start at 7 p.m. Aug. 10 at the Lary Chimbole Cultural Center, 38350 Sierra Highway Sierra Highway is a road in Southern California, United States. It runs from Tunnel Station near the north limit of the City of Los Angeles, where it intersects with San Fernando Road and Foothill Boulevard, as well as Interstate 5, and continues north to Mojave, mostly paralleling . The fees will be voted on by Los Angeles County Sanitation District 20's board, which consists of Ledford, Palmdale Councilman Jim Root and Knabe. The boards have not yet decided when or where they will meet to vote on the proposed increases. By state law the vote must follow the introduction of the rate ordinance by at least five days. The boards must act by Aug. 19 to get the higher fees placed on the tax bills that are mailed in October. |
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