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Galesburg Water Bills Can Already Be Paid Monthly
Some current and former Galesburg aldermen have long championed being able to pay local water bills monthly. But, as it turns out, that already can be done.

The Galesburg City Council Monday considered on first reading a proposal to allow a deposit for utility bill customers, but the discussion quickly turned to making bills monthly instead of quarterly, even if there is a higher cost involved with processing the bills and paying postage.

But Mayor Sal Garza said that's the big, in his words, "misperception" about water bills: paying monthly is done currently by some, but he's not sure all would want it that way.

"What we don't have is a true quanity of the people that want one or the other," Garza said. "What we do have is people who have approached us individually. I don't have a compiled sense of what that that would be, I know we have been approached."

"But, does it reach a critical mass where it crosses over that threshold, to say let's go ahead and basically change the way it is today, and have people opt out of the monthly billing."

As it stands now, those who get billed monthly now are essentially paying in advance for the service.

Instead of polling residents aldermen agreed that the option of paying monthly already must be better promoted. It's not clear, though, how the city is going to do that.
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