Murray City Council votes to raise utility rates over next decade

MURRAY – The Murray City Council on Thursday passed the second reading of the 2026 ad valorem tax rates and voted to draft an ordinance that would raise utility rates in phases over a 10-year period.

Personnel and Finance Committee Chair Danny Hudspeth reported on the meeting his committee held with the Public Works Committee prior to the regular council meeting. He said members of both committees had been part of a separate work committee that Mayor Bob Rogers tasked with studying the city’s existing utility rates, reviewing proposed infrastructure projects needed in the next decade and determining how those projects could be paid for. The current utility rates have not changed in the last eight years, and the work committee proposed that the council implement a plan in which water bill