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Local laws to raise the tipping fee by $52 annually per household and the sewage fee by a 25 cents per thousand gallons used in the city of Dunkirk were tabled pending a public hearing at the Common Council meeting held Tuesday.
In a 3-1 vote for both municipal laws, the council elected to hear the public at the next council meeting Jan. 19 at 5:20 p.m. The single vote of opposition belonged to First Ward Councilman Don Williams who has been adamant against the raises of both fees in the city.
“I voted against these because I wanted to kill these without a public hearing,” Williams told the OBSERVER following the meeting. “Voting against them shows that I’m both not in favor in any way of them as well as keeping them from moving forward to the public hearing stage.”