Uh, Hello Todd . . . Anybody home? That wonderful pro-growth Gates council from about 4 years back started the explosion in water rate increases after a 12-year hiatus. There wasn't any kick back at the city so it's been a constant rate escalation ever since to pay for all the east bench water infrastructure. Yep, water lines to nowhere to run alongside roads to nowhere from Rattlesnake Wash. It's odd that certain council members don't vote on road or interchange issues on the east bench but have no problem raising water rates that will improve their properties out there.
Informed sources say that the increases (confirmed in city council videos) that the drop in water usage actually caused a corresponding decrease in water revenues leaving the city with no alternative but to raise rates even further -- which they have been doing. You would know that if you had been paying attention.
Rates are not high enough... still.
Water is the most precious of resources and very scarce in these parts (this is a desert after all).
Are we serious about protecting this resource or not??
Or...
Are we just really that selfish that we want our cake (water) and eat it too (not pay a fair price for such a precious resource)??
Loyd... I just read your comment again recently. Do you realize how you are unwinding your whole anti-growth argument?? The whole hide in a shell thingy...
First off, I assume that you don't like the thought of cost increases. I've seen you bitch about property tax hikes, sales tax hikes, and increased water bills. So we easily know that about you. And really, that's cool with me.
Second, you are your buddies railed against 'explosive' growth for a few years now, and now there's not enough people using enough water here to bring in the revenues the city needs (for whatever reason).
So you are hit with a cost increase.
If growth continued at a fairly decent pace, bringing in more users using water, the costs would haven't necessarily needed to go up... on you.
You bitched about a $2 dollar increase. I'm sarcastically calling for doubling the rates... in an effort to save 'our' precious resource.
Do you want to save the water or not??
Or is this just about selfish interests??
Oh yeah? Nice photos.
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