New credits offsetting the $3.95 monthly storm water fee imposed on Statesboro residents last year and this year's $2 increase in monthly water and sewer base rates will be limited, through June 2017, to people age 65 and older who also qualify as low-income, City Council decided Tuesday. But for next fiscal year, council members vowed to look again at the possibility of expanding the credits to people who qualify by either poverty or age. The "and-or" question developed when council approved the $2 water and sewer increase in June with the understanding that the city would provide an offsetting credit like the one authorized last year for the storm water fee.
Only low-income seniors get city bill relief
But council eyes 2017 expansion to more residents