Don’t want to annex, we will get you another way;
That’s the month their sewer bills will jump from $100 to $235 a month.
The price is connected to unpaid pumping charges incurred by the Prairie Meadows Sanitary District in the area, which has long been a target for city annexation.
The Feb. 16 letter announcing the hike said the money would also cover “engineering and other legal costs†and to create a maintenance fund.
 “It’s just unreal,†said Lance Grasma, who called Argus Leader Media about the letter. “That’s like a car payment.â€Some neighbors see the price hike as a pressure tactic to push annexation, which could cost homeowners in the rural residential island on the city’s western edge tens of thousands of dollars in curb and gutter.
While I can see why the city wants to annex the island, the price tag is way to high. I think they should charge them all $1000 a year for the next 20 years and leave it at that. Anything else, the city should just absorb. If I have to pay a mortgage on a building I will never step foot in so the masses can be entertained by another doofus in a cowboy hat, I certainly don’t have a problem with footing the bill for some curb and gutter.