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Article: Storm water utility could provide small tax break
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
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- May 16, 2004
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Storm water utility could provide small tax break
Cost would shift to user-fee system
By TOM KERTSCHER tkertscher@journalsentinel.com, Journal Sentinel
Sunday, May 16, 2004
Racine -- The city might give residential property owners a small
tax break as it creates a storm water utility, a relatively new, user-
fee-based government funding mechanism.
Dual pressures on local governments -- to limit property tax
increases while meeting new state clean water mandates -- will mean
more storm water utilities, said Racine Commissioner of Public Works
Richard Jones, who is asking the city to create one.
"It's going to provide us a means of raising funds that we can
rely on," he said.
Last week, the ...