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Janet Knight said:
( September 19th, 2023 @ 4:26 pm )
This was super great!!!
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That so-called "stormwater utility" was always just a dishonest shell game to hide tax increases. For many decades, the city has been dealing with stormwater out of the regular city budget with tax money. This was hived off as a "utility" to cover up a tax increase some years ago. They kept the official tax rate the same, saying they were just adding a utility fee. As if voters could not see through that bullshit. Now they are playing similar dishonest games to hide another tax increase. After raising our city taxes a whopping ten percent last year, they are now back to their crooked shell game in an election year. Shame on you, Mayor Sadler.
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There are lots of shady things in the city's "stormwater utility", beginning with its revenues being used for other things in the budget than were set out in the resolution that created the "stormwater utility". This Frankenstein monster needs a major challenge, either administratively or in the courts.
One scam attached to it a couple of years ago was billing owners of multi-family properties at the commercial rate for their outbuildings and driveways, but not the house or apartment building. These properties already pay more than if the same building was single family because of dividing the billings and then imposing minimums. This unfair and unequal situtation is made even worse by then piling on with falsely calling the outbuidlings and driveway "commercial" which give them a higher rate and imposes yet another minimum. When the main building is not commercial, it is arbitrary and capricious to call the driveway and outbuildings "commerical". The city is blatantly ripping off property owners who fall into this category and they need to be held to account for this outright fraud. This outrage even applies to a building that is zoned residential and occupied by a single family but on the tax records shows as "multi-family". It is not applied to residential property that is zoned commercial, or to residential property where people conduct business out of the homes. The whole system is arbitrary and capricious and ripe for a major challenge to bring it down. There are also other ways in which the system as set up in Washington fails to comply with the state stature in ways that massively overcharge some and undercharge others. The system needs a challenge as it is arbitrary and capricious in many ways. What is also needed is a very thorough accounting of what has been done with the money collected under it. |
I agree to better over site of the storm water revenues with specific designations and identifying programs. I do not agree to a salary hold on positions. It is nearly impossible to attract qualified people to government from outside the “network” unless there is competitive pay.
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