2011

Have water rates doubled in 5 years?

Just imagine your property taxes doubling in that amount of time? As you can see from this chart that will be presented today in the SF City council informational meeting;

If you look at a bill in 2007 of a family of 5 it was about $31 a month it is about $61 a month now. That is about a $360 a year hike in a 5 year period. While there may be many justifications for this like infrastructure upgrades and Lewis in Clark, I say poppycock. Lewis and Clark is mearly a ‘backup’ in case we run out of water down the road. And as for infrastructure upgrades, those should have been done yearly with small percentage increases. This is highway robbery and the increases need to end or at least be reasonable. As you can see the ridiculous increases continue into 2013.

Is the Argue Endorser trying to help the Pavilion whitewash 2010?

I went to the AL‘s website and when you do a search of ‘Washington Pavilion’ the articles skip from 2009 to 2011. Were there no stories in the AL about the Pavilion in 2010? Seems odd.

BTW, still waiting for those 2010 budget numbers . . . or did they disappear to?

Okay folks, we know the 2010 numbers are going to be bad, that’s reality. The economy is in the shitter and the Pavilion has never been in the black, people have gotten used to that. But one wonders if this has more to do with the Mayor trying to sell us the ‘economic impact’ of a new events center? I’m guessing there is a higher power involved this time that has nothing to do with the AL or the Pav Management.