Rate Proposal is ‘Preposterous’
Rate Proposal is ‘Preposterous’
Editor,
We are the owners and occupants of 81 Eastview Drive, and we are writing to protest the proposed plan for resolving the dilemma of the inadequate sewer system. As I read it the proposal sounds more and more preposterous. We need your enthusiastic effort to turn down these outrageous rate proposals.
A little bit of history … before we were allowed to build our home here 35 years ago we had to wait for the sewer system to be upgraded. That delay was costly, in terms of increased home construction costs.
We endured the delay, waited, and built our home. We are senior citizens and we have resided at this home for over 30 years and we have raised our four children here. During this time we’ve paid the “going” sewer rates.
The children are grown and moved on and we are the sole occupants. We realize the city is growing and we are in a crisis with the inadequate current sewer system and we see the city trying to encourage more growth. And we see the city suggesting that WE finance a newer, bigger system to accommodate these new residents. It is grossly unfair.
We believe that any costs for an expanded sewer system should be borne by the future developers and the new residents that necessitate this increase AND the State of California. The state, I understand, has demanded the system upgrade. These improvements are warranted but their costs should not be borne by us.
This upgrade should be performed and paid for by the state and then pass the costs on to the developers, builders and new residents.
I do not have a real solution here, BUT I do have real concerns and I am firmly resolved to see you honor my concerns. We need your help now. Please do not allow this new proposed taxation to be imposed on us. I am contacting the other City Council members with hopes you will act together to solve this problem.
We ask that you seek other creative ways to resolve this without further burdening the present homeowners.
William C. Miffed,
Hollister
DA Not Involved in Rally
Editor,
Last week a Free Lance guest writer, Elizabeth Gage, wrote a column which suggested my office was involved in the policing of the motorcycle rally. Any suggestion to that effect is false. My office had no involvement in the policing of the rally at all.
Ms. Gage also made a crack about “evil space aliens.” I would suggest that anyone with her visage would hesitate to make such mean-spirited personal comments about others.
John Sarsfield,
District Attorney
