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I've always admired how subtle the donor service is at the Butler Trail Boardwalk, for which the Trail Conservancy raised $3 million; Waterloo Park's approach is not like this
City Hall conventionally describes this as a dividend being returned to the ratepayers who own the utility. You could also see it as a roundabout way to charge an extra sales tax on those ratepayers – it works out to a bit shy of another half cent – to fund city services. Austin Energy also funds and runs the billing and customer care for all the other utilities and the 311 call center, which is probably for the best from a customer perspective but is all on top of the $115 million.
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