Reminder to Hawthorne Customers of Sewer Averaging Period
Hawthorne Utilities is reminding their Hawthorne residential water users of the annual time period for calculating the sewer user and sewer cap on the utility bill. Hawthorne Town Ordinance # 132A was adopted July, 1991 to bring Mineral County in compliance with State and Federal Laws. It requires the collection of data to support the average of the Sewer User and Sewer Cap fees on your utility bill. The collection period will begin the next meter reading date of November 16, 2023 and continues to February 15, 2024.
This means is the Sewer User and Sewer Cap will be based on ACTUAL water consumption during the next 3 months. The average water usage of these 3 months sets the basic sewer rate for the next 9 months. If outside watering continues during this time, it will have an impact on your future utility bills.
Hawthorne Utilities is suggesting that you limit your outside watering starting November 16, 2023 and ending February 15, 2024. This does not affect any business or commercial accounts. It only affects the residential customers within the town of Hawthorne.
New customers since last years’ collection period have been billed on a minimum estimate. After the collection period, their bill will reflect charges based on the average of actual usage.
During the averaging period any outside water breaks in Hawthorne needs to be reported to the Utility Office at 945-2486. The Sewer Cap and Sewer User average amounts will be manually calculated to disallow a larger impact from the water break. There is not a reduction for the water usage, only the sewer amounts will be adjusted.
Scouting for Food on tap
Scouting for Food pickup is set for Saturday, November 11.
Please place all donated food into a plastic bag or paper bag outside your door for pickup by our Scouts. Please place the bag outside no later than 9 a.m. on Saturday, November 11. The Scouts will collect all of the bag’s between 9 a.m. and noon.
Please include non-perishable, non-frozen, non-expired food not packaged in glass.
Should the Scouts miss picking up your food, or you want to donate food at another time, please take your donation to CAHS at 924 5th Street. The food will be distributed to our neighbors in Mineral County.
Rural Nevada development grants
Rural Development Nevada State Director Lucas Ingvoldstad today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture is awarding $231,949 for a Rural Development Building Grant to StartUpNV, a Nevada-based incubator and accelerator for entrepreneurs in the state.
This funding will help StartUpNV provide a ten-week incubator for rural and tribal entrepreneurs across Nevada, as well as visit over nine counties to share entrepreneurship resources with disadvantaged communities, including Lyon County, Mineral County, and Nye County, which are located within Nevada’s Rural Partner Network (RPN) Community Networks.
StartUpNV plans to introduce two entrepreneurship programs to the tribal and rural communities in Nevada to create entrepreneurs and enhance community economic and development activities: the Rural Roadshow (RR) and the Tribal Entrepreneurial Development Program (TED).
For more information, visit www.rd.usda.gov.
