Bloomington Council Increasing Garage & Garbage Fees
By: WMBD/WYZZ TV Newsroom
Updated: April 23, 2012
BLOOMINGTON-Fees
will be increasing in Bloomington after tonight's city council meeting.
The city
council voted to approve the parking garage fees, along with the hourly rate
from 65 cents to $1.
Bloomington
also approved a $2 garbage fee increase from $14 to $16 a month to help support
the city's $165 million dollar budget for the 2013 fiscal year.
Councilman
Steven Purcell said, "The service is not paying for itself at
this time so that's why we're raising this because of taking money out of the
general fund. at one point we should get to the enterprise system where it will
pay for itself."
The overall
city budget increase for street resurfacing work, park design work and
performing arts center work was still being discussed at council.
