Editor’s note: We like this idea. It takes these bills and makes them part of the average person’s normal monthly expenses. I bet people will be more willing to pay them on a monthly basis rather than quarterly.
City trash and recycling customers will find their bills easier to pay in June.
They won’t be any cheaper, but they’ll be monthly instead of quarterly; they’ll be part of the water and sewer bills; and there will be more ways to pay them.
“The benefit to city customers is that it’s more affordable, and because it’s consistent it will be easier to budget for,” Matthew Bembenick, director of administrative services, said at a Wednesday event announcing the transfer of billing to the Reading Area Water Authority.
But the long-planned deal got delayed, and the authority’s first bills will come out in May, when the city needs to get caught up for January through April.
