HomeMy WebLinkAbout1974 11-25 Maplewood council urged: ask legislature to cut wate rates DISPATCH (E) St. Paul Dispatch
Mon., Nov. 25, 1474
council Maplewood n�� 1 u rg e : ask
legislature to1
c u ff water rates
Maplewood's City Coun- THAT COMPARES with ' instead of buying water off more than it can
cil has been urged to go to $8 to $9 per quarter in St. retail from St. Paul. chew."
the state legislature in an Paul,they say. Wieger>i, meanwhile.
effort to obtain lower wa- The r a t e differential But Mayor Robert Bru- contends that legislative
ter rates. was one of the reasons ton and som,e other coun- intervention may beMaple-
Councilman Don Wie- why Maplewood's C i t y cil members have ex- wood's answer to the wa-
gert said that appears to Council earlier this year pressed misgivings about ter rate issue.
be the only way to remedy voted 4-1 to establish a that commitment, sug- "It was my argument
what he terms "unfair Maplewood waterworks, gesting the city has "bit from the beginning that
rates," higher in suburbs the St. Paul Water De-
like Maplewood than in St. partment is a public cot-
Paul, poration and an entity
However, he held out lit- • unto itself."he said.
tie hope of the legislature "IT SUPPLIES water to
siding with the suburbs St. Paul. to Maplewood,to
presently served by the Roseville, etc." he added,
St. Paul Water Depart- "and there's no damn rea-
ment. son why the rates should
"KNOWING how mu- be any different (from
nicipalities rank down community to communi•
there (at the i c g i S f a.
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