Article: RPU rates expected to go up.

Byline: Bob Freund

Dec. 9--Consumer alert! Utility costs are heading higher. Adjust your budgets accordingly. Lighting up a house likely will cost Rochester consumers at least 8 percent more next year. Turning on a garden hose next summer probably will be about 5 percent more expensive than last year. Rochester residents and businesses will find out exactly how high prices for essential electricity and water will jump in the next 10 days. The policy makers for city-owned Rochester Public Utilities meet Thursday to draw up the utility's version of 2007 rates. The Rochester City Council gets that lineup and could make a final decision at its ...

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