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Water and sewer rate increase ordinance

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On January 8, 2024 the City Council adopted, on its consent agenda, an ordinance amending the Municipal Code section on utility billing rates. The staff memo summarizes the increases: the water rate from $8.92 to $9.81 per thousand gallons and the sewer rate from $1.74 to $1.91 per thousand gallons, citing rising costs including Chicago water rate increases. The roll call was 7–0. The ordinance number is not printed in these records.

Documented status: Approved (recorded), Jan 8 2024. Evidence dated . Later outcomes require a later source.

What changed, and when did it take effect?

  1. · First reading · Recorded in minutes

    Committee of the Whole approves the first reading

    Meeting date: Dec 18 2023. Item VI.A.6: the motion carried (7 to 0).

    • p. 4 · Approved minutes of Committee of the Whole minutes, 2023-12-18, Committee of the Whole, Dec 18 2023. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 1 · Approved minutes of Committee of the Whole minutes, 2023-12-18, Committee of the Whole, Dec 18 2023. Open the quote and source.
  2. · Approved · Recorded in minutes

    City Council adopts the utility rate ordinance

    Meeting date: Jan 8 2024. Agenda item VIII.C.6 (consent agenda): Approve an ordinance modifying Article 11, Chapter 1, Section9 of the Park Ridge Municipal Code for utility billing rates. Item VI: the motion carried (7 to 0).

    • p. 3 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2024-01-08, City Council, Jan 8 2024. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 3 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2024-01-08, City Council, Jan 8 2024. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 1 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2024-01-08, City Council, Jan 8 2024. Open the quote and source.

What was requested, recommended, approved, contracted, reported paid and completed?

Amounts are read from the cited pages and added up by code. A recommendation, an award or an authorized amount does not establish that money was paid.

  • Fee

    $8.92

    Services

    • p. 1 · Staff memo of Approve an ordinance modifying Article 11, Chapter 1, Section9 of the Park Ridge Municipal Code for utility billing rates (Memorandum), City Council, Jan 8 2024. Open the quote and source.
  • Fee

    $9.81

    Services

    • p. 1 · Staff memo of Approve an ordinance modifying Article 11, Chapter 1, Section9 of the Park Ridge Municipal Code for utility billing rates (Memorandum), City Council, Jan 8 2024. Open the quote and source.
  • Fee

    $1.91

    Services

    • p. 1 · Staff memo of Approve an ordinance modifying Article 11, Chapter 1, Section9 of the Park Ridge Municipal Code for utility billing rates (Memorandum), City Council, Jan 8 2024. Open the quote and source.
  • Fee

    $9.81

    Services

    • p. 1 · Staff memo of Approve an ordinance modifying Article 11, Chapter 1, Section9 of the Park Ridge Municipal Code for utility billing rates (Memorandum), City Council, Jan 8 2024. Open the quote and source.
  • Fee

    $1.74

    Services

    • p. 1 · Staff memo of Approve an ordinance modifying Article 11, Chapter 1, Section9 of the Park Ridge Municipal Code for utility billing rates (Memorandum), City Council, Jan 8 2024. Open the quote and source.
  • Fee

    $1.91

    Services

    • p. 1 · Staff memo of Approve an ordinance modifying Article 11, Chapter 1, Section9 of the Park Ridge Municipal Code for utility billing rates (Memorandum), City Council, Jan 8 2024. Open the quote and source.
  • Fee

    $1.74

    Services

    • p. 1 · Staff memo of Approve an ordinance modifying Article 11, Chapter 1, Section9 of the Park Ridge Municipal Code for utility billing rates (Memorandum), City Council, Jan 8 2024. Open the quote and source.
  • Fee

    $8.92

    Services

    • p. 1 · Staff memo of Approve an ordinance modifying Article 11, Chapter 1, Section9 of the Park Ridge Municipal Code for utility billing rates (Memorandum), City Council, Jan 8 2024. Open the quote and source.

Contracts, payments and completion

No contract, payment or completion record is published for this item. Approval alone does not establish completion.

Which parcels, agencies, businesses and projects are explicitly connected?

Official identifiers and exhibit listings connect records. A name, an address or distance alone only suggests a connection.

No explicit connection is published for this item.

What remains unresolved?

No condition or deadline is published for this item. That is a limit of the published research, not evidence that none exist.

Open questions

No open question is recorded for this item.

What does the evidence suggest, and what would change it?

No conflicting records are published for this item.

Official source records

  1. Committee of the Whole minutes, 2023-12-18

    Committee of the Whole, Dec 18 2023

  2. City Council minutes, 2024-01-08

    City Council, Jan 8 2024

  3. Approve an ordinance modifying Article 11, Chapter 1, Section9 of the Park Ridge Municipal Code for utility billing rates (Memorandum)

    City Council, Jan 8 2024

Editions and corrections

Each published change is a new edition. Corrections say what changed and why.

  1. Edition 3(current)

    Edition 3: 10 revised.

  2. Edition 2Read this edition

    Edition 2: 5 added, 5 revised.

  3. Edition 1Read this edition

    First edition.

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Suggested citation: GroundSignal, “Water and sewer rate increase ordinance,” sources reviewed 2026-09-25, source records listed on this page.

Initial permanent evidence page published September 10, 2026. Follow the dated evidence above for later additions and changes. A source-check date alone does not establish a government action or project outcome.