The Saratoga Town Council decided to take closer look at the proposed sewage fee after postponing the second reading on ordinance 828 at their Sept. 16 meeting.
Mayor John Zeiger said he felt the ordinance was written unfairly because several households in town would not be paying the same increased fees.
The ordinance is written to charge a single-family residential unit a $30 base-rate for sewer fees, with a 3 percent annual increase to those rates. While the base-rate increases for larger commercial and residential or apartment units, families within those dwellings could be paying considerably less for sewage.
"I live up in the trailer park, and I am not going to be paying the $30 monthly fee," Zeiger said. "If the public is paying that $30 dollar monthly fee, then as a resident up in the trailer park, I should also have to be paying that ... so that verbage needs to be changed."
Councilman Steve Wilcoxson said he had been contacted by many of his constituents about ordinance 828 since it passed the first reading at the Sept. 2 meeting. Wilcoxson said it would be more fair for everyone to pay the same fees since the money is going towards a project for the whole town.
Town resident Glee Johnson was more concerned with the 3 percent annual increase.
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