Council Member Phil Wong is urging District 30 residents and New Yorkers to join him in opposing the proposed 6% water rate increase for Fiscal Year 2027 (FY27), calling the hike “unfair, tone deaf, and impossible to justify while many homeowners continue dealing with chronic flooding, aging infrastructure, and unresolved sewer capacity issues,” according to a press release.
As reported by QNS earlier this year, Wong first sounded the alarm in March, criticizing the city’s longstanding practice of using water bill revenue to fund expenses outside the water and sewer system. Now, with another rate increase proposed, he says “ratepayers are once again being asked to shoulder the burden of a government that refuses to live within its means.”
