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Seneca Rural Fire Service Fees to Increase

By Greg Bebermeyer and Heidi Wolfgang

11/18/2016

(KMZA)--The Seneca City Council has approved an increase in rural fire service fees.

The Council voted Wednesday evening to increase the fees for the rural areas served by the city’s fire department by $10,000, with the cost to be divided among the local entities based on their assessed valuation.

The additional funding will go toward the purchase of a new fire truck.

The new fees will be in effect from 2017 to 2020.

The last fee increase was in 2013.

In other business, the Council voted unanimously to deny a request by the Seneca Housing Authority for a waiver of its annual payment in lieu of taxes.

The Council took the action on the recommendation of a council committee.

The city Housing Authority requested the waiver in July, saying it would use the more than $17,000 payment in lieu of taxes for capital improvements. The request was tabled at that time to allow time for the committee to study the issue.

The city Housing Authority operates two public housing projects with Federal Housing and Urban Development oversight.

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