If you’ve somehow managed to avoid hearing about Arcata’s plan to raise the water rates (and have dodged reading our thorough and fascinating coverage), tonight’s your chance to learn something. There will be an informational meeting hosted by the city at 5:30 at the D Street Neighborhood Center; representatives from city hall will share why they’d like to raise the rates and how they calculated how much to increase them.

It’ll be one of the last meetings Arcata will hold on the subject before a public hearing next month. The city council will likely adopt the changes then, unless more than half of Arcata’s 6,000 water customers write a printed complaint sent to city hall or oppose it in-person at the hearing.

The D Street Neighborhood Center is at 1301 D Street in Arcata.