In their discussions about water rates, the city and the Sweet Home School District need to keep it friendly.
It’s not worth the rift that could occur, as board member Chanz Keeney worried aloud Monday night at the School Board’s monthly meeting.
It’s understandable that district officials are interested in alternatives to the 45-percent increase in the charges (specifically the water utility’s commodity charge) they’re paying for irrigation water. A lot of other commercial, industrial…