Common Councillors are being asked to approve a 72 dollar increase next year for those Saint Johnners who are on the flat rate for their water. The rate would go up from just over a one thousand dollars a year to $1,080.
Plans call for the flat water rate to increase to $1,296 a year by 2017.
Metered rates will also be going up by anywhere from 2 cents to just under 7 cents depending on what block under in.
City staff are recommending the city stop fluoridating the water, calling it an inefficient program. The fluoride, itself, costs $177,000 and continued fluoridation would add $650,000 to the design costs of the new water treatment plant in east Saint John.
