water and sewer

The water and sewer meeting Wednesday night will be an important one. We pay the Highest rates in ALL of S Fla. now. The County has already made it clear that they will NOT fix our YEARS of neglect of our sewer system by this and previous Councils, by giving us a new one at no charge. They WILL charge us for whatever it costs to fix it, as a special charge. The County has more resources but will not care whatever they charge us because they will just pass their costs on thru to us. They pay the same outrageous fees to Post Buckley as MS does, and have paid, for years. This Council is only partially responsible for the neglect of maintenance over the past twenty years.

There is PLENTY we can blame THIS council for, but most of the water and sewer problems go back years. Lets not kid ourselves, the costs to repair our sewer system will be LARGE, along with the inconvenience. If we turn it over to the County we will lose control over it and the response times will be considerably longer. The guy who is supposed to be responsible for running our sewers at the County is a Springs resident, and I believe that could be a good thing, but what happens if, or when, he retires?

Should we bite the bullet and do it ourselves, but keep control? Or let the County do it and take a chance on less quality service and control? Either way we WILL be charged a LOT of money. If we do it ourselves we will need a bond issue, and if you add that money to the new gym debt we will be IN DEEP, maybe in over our heads. There are NO guarantees that the County will be any more fiscally responsible than the incompetents we have now, and if the desires of the County are in conflict with the desires of the Springs residents, on whose side do you think the County will come down on? We need to think this thru carefully and do OUR DUE DILIGENCE, since it obvious that the Council isn't going to do it. DUE DILIGENCE is a foreign term to them, one that they just cant, or wont, seem to grasp, or do. Incompetence IS, as Incompetence DOES (to paraphrase Forrest Gump).

This is a post I tried to place at MS.com three times and it was rejected. The captchas were clear and I followed the order of the letters precisely. Wonder why.