'Moderate' water/sewer hike likely in North Bay

A moderate water and sewer budget hike is expected for 2019.
Coun. Tanya Vrebosch, the city’s budget chief, says the starting point for the new council is expected to be a little more than two per cent, an increase that will translate to approximately 19 cents per month for low-end water users and 54 cents monthly for high-end users.
“We have costs that go up for ourselves – hydro goes up for us, gas goes up for us – so, to be able to come in, in the low two’s and t