Residents of Normal can now sign up to have their utility bills paid via credit card automatically every month. (Adam Studzinski/WJBC)

By Adam Studzinski

NORMAL – The Town of Normal has made some enhancements when it comes to ways residents can pay their utility bills.

Citizens can now sign up to have their bills charged to their credit cards automatically every month. Normal had previously only offered this type of service for debit cards.

"For a long time we didn't do that primarily because we didn't store people's numbers in our system for security reasons," said Finance director Andrew Huhn. "You could go online and pay one time every single month, but you couldn't do a reoccurring charge."

Huhn said security systems have advanced to the point the town feels comfortable storing credit card information. He added this service is something many residents have desired.

"A lot of folks pay their bills using credit cards," said Huhn. "It's a convenient way to pay bills. You kind of get one credit card monthly payment for all your bills."

More information is available at normal.org/utilitybills.

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