Hialeah mayor takes steps to protect residents from rising water rates, demands audit of Miami-Dade Water and Sewer

HIALEAH, FLA. (WSVN) – Hialeah Mayor Jacqueline García-Roves announced the city will be absorbing millions in county rate hikes to protect residents from massive water bills.

City leaders said they will be going forward with a plan to absorb $11 million in county rate hikes to prevent residents from seeing up to a 20% jump on their monthly water bills.

“Like, for us and the City of Hialeah, for those that live in these municipalities and have their own water systems, that buy water wholesale from the county, that we’re going to have to absorb that cost or pass that cost onto the users,” said Miami-Dade Commissioner Rene Garcia, :and I think the City of Hialeah, I think the mayor has come out saying that the City of Hialeah will absorb that cost.”…

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