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Vivian Moon
MUSA Council Joined: May 16 2008 Location: Middletown, Ohi Status: Offline Points: 4187 |
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Posted: Jun 05 2015 at 7:34pm |
Posted: 6:25 p.m.
Friday, June 5, 2015 GOVERNMENT SPENDING
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VietVet
MUSA Council Joined: May 15 2008 Status: Offline Points: 7008 |
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“If we have the opportunity, let’s do it,” Picard said. “We’re only talking about a few bucks a month.”
That's not the issue Picard. The issue is that for every gallon of water one dumps on the lawn in hot summer weather, to keep the lawn from burning up and going dormant, a sewer charge is tacked onto it. If the city is going to raise sewer rates, the least they could do is allow us to have a separate meter installed just for the outside facets so that we will only be charged the water rate and not the sewer rate for water usage on the lawn and to wash cars. My water bill is normally around 62 bucks a month. When I water the lawn in the summer, it shoots up to around 100 bucks or so. How about helping me keep my water bill down by installing another meter. |
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Dean
MUSA Resident Joined: Apr 15 2014 Status: Offline Points: 162 |
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Totally unacceptable. Evidently no one reviews the cash going out of the General Fund and deficit financing, and using public safety funding to short cover deficits elsewhere within the annual budget. Add to that income to be tapped, the added cost of sewers. Its a cash flow engine bringing dollars in to be floated to pay other city bills, and filled somewhere downstream at a later time.
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Factguy
MUSA Resident Joined: Dec 07 2009 Status: Offline Points: 217 |
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Come on Dan. Start pushing the 2.25% tax increase, as its just a few bucks a paycheck. The fun in the city begins when the few bucks a month becomes hundreds of dollars. The school levy was just a few bucks, the library renewal was just a few bucks, the mental health renewal was just a few bucks. Key is to be sensitive where a few bucks doesn't lead to adios Middletown.
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Vivian Moon
MUSA Council Joined: May 16 2008 Location: Middletown, Ohi Status: Offline Points: 4187 |
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This is not the first increase in the sewer rates. Them boys down at City Hall have been collecting for the seperation of the sewers for years...so the real question should be....where is all the money?
Take a look at one of your old water bills from 15 years ago. This is like filling a bucket with a big hole in the bottom.
I know, I know, this happened in the past and we don't need to talk about it. |
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ktf1179
MUSA Citizen Joined: Mar 19 2012 Status: Offline Points: 518 |
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You can thank the Federal EPA Consent Decree for our sewer bill going up. The City of Cincinnati is dealing with this issue as well. http://msdgc.org/consent_decree/
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chmoore1
MUSA Resident Joined: Jan 25 2012 Status: Offline Points: 230 |
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"More than 770 communities in the nation have or are negotiating with the U.S. EPA to address the overflows for combined sewer systems." Will this actually separate the sewer (into "waste" and "storm" or just "address the overflow" or just be some sort of "overflow" fix? just 1chmoore.
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spiderjohn
Prominent MUSA Citizen Joined: Jul 01 2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 2749 |
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Amen fact guy
1. School scores have been dumbed down to where everyone asses, yet we remain near the bottom. Ask local small businesses about the quality of the young work force and the turnover. 2. Library levy changed nothing here other than increasing already good salaries and bennies for employees(now more of them) 3. Public safety levys have been hose jobs, with money siphoned elsewhere. 4. Mental health improvements? List them please... 5. Former downtown area purchases from cronies followed by expensive giveaways + cash has crushed local property values. And little to no work being done on any of these projects or timetables mentioned in the "feel good" press releases. 6. Few to no quite of life improvements. Dan P is a nice person but an out of touch Councilmember None of those up for re-erection have any business running again. We need new younger faces/ideas I like and trust Doug, though I can't see his current roster of staff changing much other than self-preservation Jmo |
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Vivian Moon
MUSA Council Joined: May 16 2008 Location: Middletown, Ohi Status: Offline Points: 4187 |
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Posted: 7:00 a.m.
Thursday, Sept. 3, 2015
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VietVet
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Adkins said that major capital improvements over the next 25 years will be needed for the city’s aging combined sanitary and stormwater sewage system.
The city’s lines get overloaded with rain water and sewage overflows at several points along the Great Miami River, Adkins said. In addition, to addressing the overflow issues, extensive rehabilitation of the city’s sewer system, which nearly half of the system is 50 years or older, and major improvements at the city’s wastewater treatment plant where most of its components were installed in the 1950s. Adkins said the cost to address the overflows is estimated between $80 and $250 million; to repair and rehabilitate the sewer system will cost an estimated $142 million; and to make the needed improvements at the wastewater treatment plant is estimated at $68 million. So, as Vivian has asked, you know the cost for fixing these issues Adkins. What is the current balance in the sewer fund from money collected over the years. You have given us the dollar amounts that are needed but you didn't tell us how much money the city has in the sewer fund against the amount needed. Simple question....how much money is in the sewer fund, how much are you currently collecting each year to place into the fund and that will allow us to verify how short the account is to justify this increase. It may also tell us if the city has raided yet another fund to supply the black hole General Fund for pet project distribution under the radar. |
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