REPORTS - RULE 53

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▶ 6:20 Speaker 3: You want us from committee to report under rule? 53.

▶ 6:30 Jack Eccles: Councilor Eccles Thank you. Thank you. Mr. President. Um, the traffic commission will meet at Wednesday. On 530, and they have 3 items on the agenda.

▶ 6:44 John N. Tramontozzi: Thank you, Mr. President. On March 11th, the Water and Sewer Committee met for the second time. We're still waiting on some details from the MWRA and we anticipate that at our next meeting we will be setting a rate for the water and sewer, which will be then presented to the Council. the full City Council at a later date. The projection is at this point that regarding water that the rates for Tier 1 and 2 will increase as well as the base fees. In terms of sewer, it's pretty level and the base fees will remain the same. However, we are looking at the possibility of using retained earnings in the water and sewer budgets to keep the rate increase at a minimum and possibly to eliminate a rate a proposed rate increase so that will be discussed at our next meeting and we'll have further information at that time thank you thank you anybody else have anything to report

▶ 8:00 Speaker 3: on rule 53 seeing none madam clerk of committees can you hear me at this time