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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 2018
Warrenton: New rates, fees will go into effect in July
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Water and sewer hikes
Water and sewer rates are
going up by 7 percent and 5
percent, as they also did last
year. This will be a base rate
increase of $1.96 for water
and $2.78 for sewer, accord-
ing Collin Stelzig, the public
works director.
With China’s new regula-
tions on imported recyclable
materials driving up the cost
of doing business for recycling
and garbage companies, recy-
cling rates are going up for
many communities. For War-
renton ratepayers, this means a
3.5 percent increase that adds
25 cents monthly to the cost
of carts and just under $2 to
the monthly cost of cardboard
containers. Rental rates and
fees for the Warrenton Com-
munity Center went up last
year and are going up again
this year.
The new rates and fees will
go into effect in July following
a second reading at the com-
mission’s next meeting.
Proposed land use applica-
tion fees, some of which would
have increased substantially,
were also on the table, but the
three commissioners present
Tuesday opted to hold off vot-
ing until the full commission
could discuss the changes with
interim City Planner Kevin
Cronin. The city plans to hold
a special session later this
month to discuss the proposed
increases and new fee catego-
ries Cronin suggested.
The city is trying to be pro-
active by raising rates and fees
to fund operations and address
upcoming repairs and ongo-
ing maintenance, said Com-
missioner Rick Newton after
the meeting. What residents
pay in property taxes doesn’t
even cover the city’s police
department, and the depart-
ments behind some of the fee
increases commissioners dis-
cussed Tuesday night are
enterprise funds that rely on
revenue to pay their expenses,
not tax money, he and Mayor
Henry Balensifer said.
“Yeah, it’s nice to keep the
same rate for years, but in real-
ity you’re cutting your own
throat,” Newton said.
Playing catch-up
“There’s a lot of aging
infrastructure that we need to
play catch-up on, but also the
cost of services has increased,
the cost of the materials to do
those services has increased,”
Balensifer said.
In some cases, city busi-
ness has become more expen-
sive due to new state and fed-
eral standards, he added. And
the city must also take into
account rising costs for the
state’s pension program.
For years, Warrenton put
off improvements at the Ham-
mond and Warrenton marinas.
Now, the city has invested seri-
ous dollars into both facilities
— one major project being the
new commercial dock in War-
renton — and this forms part
of the justification for raising
rates and fees next fiscal year.
“When you’ve invested $2
million to improve your facil-
ities, if we don’t keep on track
to take care of them and main-
tain them, we’re going to be
in the same position we were
in before,” said City Manager
Linda Engbretson.
There’s millions of dol-
lars more that could be put
in at both marinas, she said.
Hammond will still need to
be dredged in the near future,
a project expected to cost as
much as $1.3 million. In fact,
there’s not a single city depart-
ment or fund that couldn’t
Photos by Colin Murphey/The Daily Astorian
Utility technicians with the city perform maintenance on a sewer line.
benefit from an infusion of
money, she and the commis-
sioners noted. Increasing rates
and fees is just one small step,
commissioners said.
“It all factors down in the
end to the livability in War-
renton when it reaches wher-
ever we’re headed in the next
10 years,” Newton added.
“Because if we’re going to
have livability, we have to
have water there. We have to
have parks. We have to have
roads. We have to have sewer.
We have to have garbage. We
have to have all those things,
and if you don’t plan ahead,
you’re going to be putting fires
out like crazy.”
John Pozdolski,
utility technician
for Warrenton,
keeps an eye on
the display from
equipment ex-
amining under-
ground pipes.
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