Furthermore, this proposal is a scam to pay off campaign contributors, while incurring 30-year long-term debt to be repaid by the water and sewer ratepayers for the repaving of streets that will need repaved in four or five years. Any idiot knows that you only borrow for long-lasting capital expenditures; not for operating expenses, maintenance and repairs, and you definitely don’t steal dedicated funds to pay for other unrelated projects.
And, as for alternatives, I have already told Chris Cotterill directly to his face in a public meeting, that if the city wants to fix the street and sidewalk infrastructure, then they should go to the legislature and raise the gas tax (enact a transparent local gas tax, if necessary) to an adequate level to fund infrastructure, at a rate that will allow the city to catch up, with the backlog over a period of time. Our wonderful “public servants” have no problem running to the legislature again and again to beg to raise taxes, so that they can give more money to millionaires and billionaires or to subsidize a minor portion of our economy. This proposal (and the already passed PILOT bond (paid out of sewer fees) is a tax, hidden within our sewer and water fees, but I don’t expect the corporate media to do anything but spew out the government’s talking points, lie, attack truth tellers and attempt to get the sheep to follow.
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