January 4, 2009

There are several things I have to talk about.

 

First, the January 8 Hall County Commissioners meeting sewer issue is really beginning to pick up momentum.  I have been talking to several of you on the phone and by email to answer specific questions and if anyone else wants to contact me for more information, please do so.

 

To give you a perspective on the future rates, if this passes, I stole this chart from my counterpart Craig Lutz’s website for because I was lazy and he already had it.

 

If you look at your last City of Gainesville water bill you can use the table below to see what your new rate could be (This does not include the City of Gainesville Rate change effective January 2009):

CCF Used	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Total Sewer	$17.13	$27.00	$36.87	$46.74	$56.61	$66.48	$76.35	$86.22	$96.09	$105.96
Total Water and Sewer	$27.85	$41.56	$55.27	$68.98	$82.69	$96.40	$110.11	$123.82	$137.53	$151.24

 

I also have the agenda for our first meeting on January 7, 2009.

 

One item agenda is 2009 Meeting Dates and Times and there is a change to the ordinance that will put one meeting per month on Mondays at 6:00 pm.  I hope the other three who voted no last year to move the meeting to the evening can vote yes for this because we must have meetings at times when you, our bosses, can make the meetings.  If they vote no, there will be no change to the 2009 meeting times of 9:30 am.

 

Another item is the approval of the December 10, 2008 meeting when Craig and I were beating the drums hard about not signing the Intergovernmental Agreement with Hall County, which has now allowed Hall County to charge our citizens of Flowery Branch, who are on Hall County sewer those outrageous rates in the chart above.  As soon as it is on a pdf, I will post it on my site. Craig and I held no punches back.

 

I will continue the fight for you all.