ALBANY – State Senator John Bonacic
(R, Mt. Hope) has announced his opposition to the proposed rate increase
plan by Orange and Rockland Utilities.
“While I understand the need to maintain and upgrade infrastructure,
I am opposed to increasing customer costs in order to do so,” he
said in a letter to the State Public Service Commission. “With taxpayers
struggling to make ends meet, the municipalities and school districts
abiding by the state tax cap, a utility rate hike is an unnecessary burden
on our communities.”
Bonacic urged O&R to meet their infrastructure improvement needs “through
cost-cutting measures, much like their customers have been forced to do
with their household budgets.”
