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In smaller apartment buildings such as two- or three-flats, or even four-flats, garbage is often disposed of in trash containers similar to those used at houses.

Chlorine is the cheapest and most harmful thing they can use for disinfecting the water. They started using chlorine in the late 1800's and have not used anything else. Shower, bathe, swim...and your body absorbs it through the pores of your skin.

Wow the water taxes have really increased in the last year

Please have your webmaster create a java floating icon that anyone reading can click to take them to an action page where they can email fax or contact speciffic entities to complain. These pages should contain sample text of how the complaint should read and what it should contain to help the complaintant get the point across. This is an extremely effective modality for action. UCAN do this guys!

Bill Zimmermann, North Park

How does this city get away with this?
Public officials constantly lying to the public about their intent. Come on, isn't this criminal activity? Misuse of funds, not telling the public what the true rates are?
We see it all over San Diego government. Parks officials that can't account for millions from the state, run and hide once exposed. Water bills going through the roof to compensate for total incompetence in city hall.
In how many other cities do you make out your water bill payment to "City Treasurer"?

Sincerely,
Screwed

With great timing and coincidentally, the Metropolitan Water District proposed raising its base rate by about 7.3% and respresenting the largest increase in more than 10 years and exceeding any expectations from our local water leaders. The increase goes to the San Diego County Water Authority, which may add its own rate increase on top of the city's 12 -15% increases and the Metropolitan Water Disctrict's proposed increases. Wow! The Metropolitan Water District is alleging that the price of electricity to move water across California and its own escalating costs are the cause for its need to raise rates.

So now we have potentially three sources of increases for San Diego. It's amazing that just after UCAN pointed out the fact that the City's math figures did not show the entire story and breakdown of increases, that we suddenly are hit with proposed increases from The Metropolitan Water District and the San Diego County Water Authority.

We would need time and specifics to mathmatically figure out the total costs per residential and business customers if all three raises were implemented.

SAM

Look everybody this global warming thing is serious and we're all going to have to chip in and pay for the natural resources we abuse.

Thanks for the new information about the rate increases -- I found the rate charts in the notice quite useless.

I find these increases all the more galling because I know the Water Department is not doing everything possible to cut costs. I know of a consultant that is being paid over $100,000 a year by the Water Department to coordinate a water conservation poster contest for children. One can imagine there are other examples of frivolous waste in that department.

When we got the water rate increase notices, my daughter who has a masters degree brought hers over to show me, and asked what kind of increase it meant. I'm a lawyer, and I couldn't determine it either. Thanks, Michael, for watching out for us.

Thanks for calling attention to this issue.
We did not receive the notice at our house in South Park. That truly disturbs me, and I wonder how many other households failed to receive the mailing.
I have printed/sent in the protest form you provided. Let's hope that it is delivered!
Thanks.

The "math errors" put out by the City aren't all that is unclear or hard to find. You have the right to fill out and mail a PROTEST FORM for each account you hold. If you own two homes, fill out 2 protest forms. If you have a commercial account and a residential account, you have 2 votes. During the hearing on this matter, a City Council woman asked if protest forms brought to the February 26, 2007 hearing would be counted. The answer was, YES. If for some reason your form is not mailed, you have the right to show up and present it for counting prior to the actual vote. The form is easy to miss on the NOTICE sent to account holders because it's sent by 3rd class mail and because the protest form is on the very bottom of Page 2. If one is skimming the notice, the protest form would be missed. There are 2 boxes to check----one for water and one for sewer.

SAM