Residents of Landers and Flamingo Heights can expect to pay more for water service beginning July. Reporter Mike Lipsitz says last night’s Bighorn-Desert View Water agency meeting was about pay increases for directors, and rate increases for customers…
Following a public hearing on a five percent increase in board compensation to just over $140 per meeting, the increase was approved in a three/two split vote with President Mike McBride and Director Larry Coulombe opposed. This was the second consecutive year for McBride to oppose the cost-of-living increase saying that when their per diem compensation hit $125 a few years ago it seemed a fair amount to him.
Also last night, the board passed a resolution fixing and adopting the agency budget for fiscal 2019/2020 and confirmed a five percent increase to the basic monthly service charge and a three percent increase in consumption charges for all residential and most bulk meters.
