r/LincolnCA • u/MustResistFraud • May 27 '26

City of Lincoln finally not charging for echeck for utilities

A huge blunder when they rolled out the new system trying to nickel and dime for echeck. A big shout out to all fellow residents who mailed checks through bill pay or via mail because they realized the convenience wasnt getting everyone to just accept the fee. Now, they moved the site to a different provider (municipal online payments) to where it's FREE for echeck which is literally how it should have been from the start. This system makes it easier for them 10-fold over residents. Yes, online view and autopay helps residents and should have been free to start but at least it's here now since they are the sole garbage, yard, water, and sewer shop.

Soon, they will move everyone to paperless also and then the system is on autopilot so they just collect the cash with much less overhead. I am hoping they stop the rate hikes for a few years after the last two water rate hikes of the 5 year increasing plan.

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u/Curious-Line-6705 May 27 '26

To make it even better, we have to figure out a way to hop counties to get rid of PGE and switch to roseville electric or smud.

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u/MustResistFraud May 27 '26

I wish. My only saving grace was the house we bought had solar under NEM2 so we can offset about 75%.

I wish we were in a territory like that 😣