I am glad the StormWaterGate issue was taken up by Nick Coleman.
Personally I think David Brauer should have specified that he was just
talking about single-family houses in better-off neighborhoods. I believe
in my posts to start Stormwater Gate I specified that the neighborhoods
most
gemgram wrote:
The real problem is not the staff of the City. The real problem is
the management (or lack of it). The real problem is that we continue
to elect well meaning nice people who simply are incompetent to manage
our City. We elect people who will not, or are incapable of, take
the
The stormwater rate is multipled by the number of ESUs (estimated stormwater
units) that the property has been assigned. So it most definitely IS
possible to have a $37 bump up in fees.
In my case, my water bill was $34 a month. The city guessed that I had 2.38
ESUs (it's actually 1.17). They
Personally, I think Nick should've specified his subject's home also
included a rental unit, so the majority of his readers would know his
example didn't apply to them (the rates for single-family homes are
capped at $10.90 a month).
Personally, I think Nick purposefully left it out to
On Apr 15, 2005, at 3:01 PM, Dorothy Titus wrote:
The stormwater rate is multipled by the number of ESUs (estimated
stormwater
units) that the property has been assigned. So it most definitely IS
possible to have a $37 bump up in fees.
Dorothy's woes are a screw-up in administering the policy,
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On Apr 15, 2005, at 3:01 PM, Dorothy Titus wrote:
The stormwater rate is multipled
