From last Thursday’s Cambrian:

Rate increases: Cambria ratepayers made history in November when they defeated the services district’s proposed rate increase for water and sewage-treatment service. Cambria apparently was the first substantial community to defeat such an increase under provisions of the state’s
Proposition 218, approved by state-wide vote in 1996.
The hikes could have raised some customers’ bills by 400 percent or more, although the average increase reportedly would have been far less.
The Cambria Community Services District scrapped the proposal after nearly 57 percent of ratepayers submitted valid vote letters objecting to increases.

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