“Eight hundred dollars a month”: that is how much Michael Lamphear, owner of the Cordial Courts mobile home park in South Beloit, stated his monthly water bill would increase when the new rates for South Beloit municipal sewage service would go into effect.
At this meeting, the council expressed certainty that South Beloit did not service Cordial Courts, which is off Townline Avenue. Mr. Lamphear maintains that though Cordial Courts is outside the city of South Beloit, it is in the police, fire, and municipal water district. The Winnebago County Assessor’s website confirms that Mr. Lamphear’s property is in unincorporated Rockton Township and his tax bill doesn’t show any South Beloit taxes except to the school district.
On Monday, July 21, the South Beloit City Council held a special meeting to highlight two plans that will bring rate increases to those on the city’s municipal sewage service. The rates (detailed below) will have to increase for a few reasons:…