$6 million budget for water district includes bill increase for many AJ residents
by Richard H Dyer | Apache Junction/Gold Canyon Independent
A portion of the news rates and fees proposed by the Apache Junction Water Utilities Community Facilities District. (From https://apachejunction.legistar.com)
Piping water to the city of Mesa to be treated and returned for use by the Apache Junction Water Utilities Community Facilities District will end later this year when a surface-water treatment plant under construction near Ironwood Drive and Baseline Road goes online.
Funds for the completion and operation of the $9 million treatment plant are part of a tentative fiscal year 2016-17 budget approved May 17 by the district board of directors.
A public hearing and vote on the final budget is slated for a 6 p.m. Tuesday, June 21, water district board meeting at the council chambers, 300 E. Superstition Blvd.
A photo illustration of colorful larger-then-life drinking straws spanning the width of a canal was used by City Manager Bryant Powell a day later to show what the city of Apache Junction will be doing by the end of the year.
