5/3/12
A council work session on 5/29 (yes, Tuesday as Monday is Memorial day) at 600 PM once again will take up the idea of expanding city water across the entire city. The City has hired a consultant to help the council understand the options and costs (another $7000 spent).
Recall that the staff report showed a cost of about $29 million for city-wide water expansion.
Meanwhile it appears there is an opportunity to retire the old water bonds that are costing the City interest every year. Appears there are un-needed reserves in the water fund and these could be used to buy back all the bonds. Since the reserves are earning almost no interest, buying back the bonds seems a no-brainer and could allow a water rate reduction since the bond principal and interest no longer needs to be paid every year.
But, count on Lizee and friends to want to use the reserves to fund the water expansion. So, current and past water customers would be paying out their paid-in money to bring new users onto the system for no benefit to those who paid the money. Seems like a good deal? The Insider doesn't think it's good or fair.
Watch this blog after the 5/29 meeting. Better yet, come yourself to hear the proceedings and weigh-in.
Happy Reading!
The Insider
I don't have city water, and I don't want city water. Even if they run the line for free, hook it up for free, and throw in a new softener, ion-exchanger,and Reverse Osmosis machine. I DON'T WANT CITY WATER.
ReplyDeleteInsider: Please explain to us the rationale for the entire city being on a water system: Because other cities do it?
ReplyDeleteIn all my years here I have only heard that it is for the "Greater good." Whose? These are basic important questions and if there is not a sound, logical argument for city water, which now is unaffordable to the dwindling working class in this town, then there should be no further conversation.
Nobody cares what you want. Just grab your ankles.
ReplyDeleteEveryone needs to keep asking individual councilmembers why they want to ram this down everyone's throat. The current system is self sustaining. There is nothing to fix. I haven't seen anyone protesting or demanding city water now!
It seems to be an ideological pre-disposition to forcibly collectivize the evil individuals in our community. They are too darn independent.
But then there is the other blessing that comes with city-water. High-density apartment complexes so we too can suffer the consequences of affordable housing
(ie: section 8) and all the crime that comes with it. Just research where other larger cities police calls are concentrated. Without city water, those crime magnets cannot be built. Think ahead people!
Stop the water and you stop high density housing.
Good grief. Why not????? Especially with pockets of arsenic found in some private wells in Shorewood?
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