City Water Light and Power’s budget would climb by four-and-a-half percent in the coming year… but the utility would have 22 fewer budgeted positions… under the spending plan now being reviewed by Springfield aldermen.
There were few objections raised to the CWLP proposal during a budget briefing Tuesday.
But chief engineer Eric Hobbie warns that there are looming problems for the utility… including the potential future cost of EPA regulations, and the loss of institutional knowledge from anticipated retirements in the next several years.
