Category: Waste Water Treatment Plant
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Looking Back to 2007 Comments on Sewer Rates
BY DONNA WESTFALL From the transcribed audio tapes dated September 26, 2007. A workshop was held at the Cultural Center in Crescent City by the City Council and staff. Ely Naffah, City Manager “….they (developers) pay up front, the hook-up fee, which covers like about 17 years of the loan payment, and then they start paying…
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Sewer Loan/Rates: Misinformation And Sound Bites Coming From The City Council, Not The Citizens
BY KATHERINE KELLY Here we go again. According to the Triplicate article, Bleak Report on City Sewer Debt, it’s the same old story, different council. To hear Mayor Rick Holley decry citizen opposition to the latest proposals on fixing what they broke in 2007 as misinformation and sound bites, and having Councilman Rich Enea belt…
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WHISTLE BLOWERS WELCOME HERE
BY DONNA WESTFALL The Crescent City-Del Norte County Taxpayers Association has been created. There will be a meeting announced soon. Fundraising has been well received by the community. Referendums to take the latest sewer rate increase to the ballot will be circulated starting July 3rd. 167 valid signatures are required from CITY ONLY REGISTERED VOTERS. …
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SEWER RATES TO RISE AGAIN; OR WILL THEY?
BY DONNA WESTFALL HERE IS THE SAMPLE OF A BALLOT FOR PROTESTING THE UPCOMING SEWER RATE INCREASE. Feel free to make copies and pass them out. But get them to me so we can tabulate and make copies to double check against the City’s count. Until the City Council deems it a priority to…