It is clear that the CCSD is out of touch with our community. The board members have lost the confidence of we Cambrians due to this rash decision to raise our water rates.
Since the board members are for the most part independently wealthy due to their law practices or living on generous public sector retirement programs or have become wealthy due to inheritance, they have distances themselves from many who are living on social security payments or who are barely getting by their investments.
They want to raise the rates to cover the costs of various needs they claim the community needs. But do these projects need to be done immediately or can they wait and be phased in over a number of years? By phasing them in over a longer period of time rate payers wouldn’t be burdened by these proposed cost increases all at once.
These proposed rate increases are coming at a time when our nation is facing the worst economic crisis since the great depression when there was little or no employment, the stock market had crashed, and like today, hundreds of thousands of Americans were losing their homes.
Finally our local newspaper, The Cambrian, has endorsed these rate increases after years of not endorsing candidates for public office. I do not see the distinction between not endorsing candidates and yet endorsing these rate increases.
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