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Albany rain tax: How about ‘tiers’?

Written June 20th, 2016 by Hasso Hering

Depending on the size of the footprint of their houses, Albany single-family residential water and sewer customers would pay 50 cents more or less than the proposed standard $6.74 monthly storm water utility fee — or rain tax as I like to call it — under a three-tier system proposed to the city council Monday.


 
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