Town Council Approves First-Ever Sewer Fee

The Westfield Town Council presented the 2012 municipal budget.

Westfield residents will receive their first sewer bill this spring after Mayor Andy Skibitsky and Town Council members, minus an absent David Haas, approved the ordinance at Tuesday night's Town Council meeting, which included a Powerpoint presentation of the 2012 municipal budget.  Before turning over the floor to Council Finance Committee Chairman Sam Della Fera, who explained how the ordinance would affect property owners, Skibitsky recognized the finance committee's hard work on the "difficult 2012 budget."  "We really don't have a spending problem in Westfield, but we do have a revenue problem," Skibitsky said, "and we never expected that this recession would have lasted as long as it has and would've impacted our revenues as much as…

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