City residents, be warned. You are now able to pay your property taxes and water and sewer bills by credit card, but there will be a fee.

We are letting you know this because the city of Dunkirk is not prominently announcing this — through its recent press releases or on their website. Instead, they are blaming this newspaper for not disseminating the information.

Thus, we are writing this editorial.

The last announcement of this city accepting credit cards was published in our paper on April 2. The article does not indicate there is an added fee to your bill.

We received a call from a resident who mentioned the article and the city responded saying we refused to print that information.

Why would we refuse that? And why is it the added fees are not mentioned on the city-maintained website as of late Tuesday evening?

For the record, here is the information on the fees, as provided by the city to the OBSERVER on Tuesday afternoon: “There is an additional ‘convenience fee’ on credit card transactions: $3 for anything under $113 and 2.65 percent on anything over $113. The fee is charged separately on the customer’s statement and is a fee the city is passing on from its credit card vendor.”

Thanks, Dunkirk, for the belated transparency.