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ORDER-2016-33 : BE IT ORDERED that the City shall cause all water meters in the City to be read between June 15th and June 30th of each year for the purpose of issuing water and sewer bills for the quarter ending June 30th.
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ORDER-2016-33 Request BE IT ORDERED that the City shall cause all water meters in the City to be read between June 15th and June 30th of each year for the purpose of issuing water and sewer bills for the quarter ending June 30th. Hold Appropriations Committee
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▶ 32:10 Peter D. Mortimer: And number 12 on our agenda tonight, order 2016-33. Be it ordered that the city shall cause all water meters in the city to be read between June 15th and June 30th of each year for the purpose of issuing water and sewer bills for the quarter ending June 30th, and this order is before us.
▶ 32:38 Peter D. Mortimer: President Kahn, this is your order, please proceed.
▶ 32:41 Speaker 3: Yes, it is, and since it's very late, I'm going to be very brief. I filed this order in an effort to
▶ 32:52 Speaker 3: correct what I saw as the inequity relative to retroactive billing and I filed it in the belief that since we had the new water meters we would
▶ 33:09 Speaker 3: be able to read all meters within a two-week period so we could have a uniform bill at the crossover point between one year and another um I think it's too late to discuss this order this
▶ 33:35 Speaker 3: I think after the discussion at the end of the last meeting where we had some explication of the administration order relative to billing. I would not like to give this order leave to withdraw, but I would like to have it retained in committee at this point.
▶ 33:48 Peter D. Mortimer: Second. President Kahn has made a motion to keep the instant order in committee. That motion was seconded by Alderman Medeiros. On discussion? Seeing no discussion, we're ready for the vote to keep this order in committee. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Hearing none, this order will be retained in committee. Motion to adjourn. We have a motion to adjourn from Alderman Forbes, duly seconded by Alderman Boycelle. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Hearing none. The Committee on Appropriations is adjourned. Thank you, one and all.