For the last several months, the City of Alexander City City Council has had sewage rates on its minds.
Back in January, the council voted to rescind two planned 7% increases to sewer rates in Alex City in 2025 and 2026. But that left a hole in the sewer department, and it’s been left without a solution since.
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