Comments on: Eye on City of Sedona Wastewater https://sedonaeye.com/eye-on-city-of-sedona-wastewater/ Local News From All Points of View Wed, 13 Jun 2012 02:09:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 By: Eddie Maddock https://sedonaeye.com/eye-on-city-of-sedona-wastewater/comment-page-1/#comment-10143 Wed, 06 Jun 2012 23:49:14 +0000 https://sedonaeye.com/?p=19369#comment-10143 Gosh darn it, Warren. How the heck do you expect for the city to continue to fund the $100,000 annual increases to the exisiting $500,000 allocated to the Chamber of Commerce if they don’t increase your useage fee of the sewer system? (oops maybe Wastewater Treatment Plant is the proper term)

Just be grateful that you aren’t one of those in the flood areas having to hire an attorney to rightfully collect city inflicted damages.

Having personally travelled that route not once but twice, I’m able to attest with some measure of credibility that a Letter of Intent from an attorney is frequently the only way lowly citizens can be heard.

Even though faith may be just a sad memory, keep smiling. It’s good for the blood pressure. :-)

]]> By: Warren https://sedonaeye.com/eye-on-city-of-sedona-wastewater/comment-page-1/#comment-10125 Sat, 02 Jun 2012 16:32:24 +0000 https://sedonaeye.com/?p=19369#comment-10125 McIlroy is a hypocrite. He has voted for so much other “waste” it is ridiculous. His latest sin was his vote to give the Chamber of Commerce another $100K. Now the incompetent wastrel has the audacity to lecture us about fiscal responsibility and how tripling our sewer fee will make drainage and road maintenance possible.

McIlroy repeats the tired line that is meant to guilt trip us all into thinking sewer rate increases are OK and to be expected: “…the Sedona monthly residential wastewater rates remained unchanged for 14 years at $32.54.” That’s true. But it is only half true. The full truth is that for fourteen years residents were ripped off. Cottonwood’s sewer fee was $5.95 fourteen years ago and has only now been raised to $23 per month. Flagstaff was $7 fourteen years ago and now is $21 per month.

McIlroy is also a lousy historian. He writes of the sewer system that, “It is supposed to operate at the true cost of its services. This historically has not been the case.” Total hogwash. It was primarily the commercial interests along the creek that were polluting, not residents. Building the sewer was tied to incorporation and the desire for continued development. Residents were promised then that the sewer would be subsidized by sales tax. That promise was a major factor in getting residents to agree to incorporation.

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