With California’s drought officially over, many are wondering why Fullerton’s appointed and elected leadership are planning on nearly doubling water rates.
Tonight at 6:30PM at City Hall (303 W. Commonwealth Ave.) city staff and leaders will be discussing the need to repair the City’s aging water system and how best to pay for these much needed repairs. If left to their own devices, city leadership will nearly double water rates. Compounding the problem, the same plan includes massive tax bonds at great expense to our children’s future.
Please come out and let City Hall know that you tired of their tax-and-spend attitude. The Orange County Register reported yesterday that we are headed into a double-dip recession, the worst recession since the start of the Great Depression and we just can’t afford to pay more taxes.
Did you know that the City charges each water user a 10% tax (franchise tax) within your water bill? That money goes into “programs” and management overhead but should be going back into the water system. Unfortunately, this mismanagement of prioritizing funding is business-as-usual and will surely continue unless YOU step up and SPEAK at City Hall tonight.
As you may know, I will not be able to attend the “workshop” until late in the evening because of a city commission on which I serve. That means I need your help in voicing our disapproval and opposition for the City’s plan to raise water rates.
We all agree that water should be one of City Hall’s highest priorities but taxing us out of our homes and community just isn’t the answer.
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