Town Board Meeting

[Airehead ★]

Big doings in our village. Some people want city water run out and all over the place.   We have a perfectly good well and I do not want to pay for someone’s pipes. If this passes everyone pays even if they do not hook to it. 

[bikeman564™]

There's a city call Highland Park who is in debt $54M to the Great Lakes Water Authority for water & sewer service. So how is GLWA getting its money? They're charging 84 surrounding communities, mine included, to pay for it. So yeah, I'm paying for other people's water.

[Kzoo]

2 minutes ago, bikeman564™ said:

There's a city call Highland Park who is in debt $54M to the Great Lakes Water Authority for water & sewer service. So how is GLWA getting its money? They're charging 84 surrounding communities, mine included, to pay for it. So yeah, I'm paying for other people's water.

My mother was born and raised in Highland Park.  But don’t blame her.

[sheep_herder ★]

This often happens when some folks move to the 'country' but decide they want the amenities of city life. I've heard all kinds of horror stories from Colorado.

[Airehead ★]

5 minutes ago, sheep_herder said:

This often happens when some folks move to the 'country' but decide they want the amenities of city life. I've heard all kinds of horror stories from Colorado.

Agreed. Why did you buy land with a well if you did not want a well!

[Kirby ★]

3 minutes ago, Airehead said:

Agreed. Why did you buy land with a well if you did not want a well!

Maybe they thought it was for making wishes.

[Bikeguy]

At our old home we had well.  So did the entire area.  A neighbor and I worked with the water company. (a private water company)  We had a plan to extend the city water about 2 miles. (or a bit less)   We managed the project.  

We qualified for a grant, but we still had to fund about 1/3 of the cost.   We had several public meetings, etc...  I even remember going door to door explaining the plan.   There was a 'minimum' number of new customers the water company wanted.  And the more people who agreed to hook up would reduced the connection cost to the new customers.

Only the new people to be hooked to the new pipe up paid.   If I recall.. about $1300 each.   Plus the cost of the pipe from your home out to the road.   Many (including me) thought that was cheap.   

One guy at a farm house, about 3 miles to the west insisted that HE needed to be included in the pipe extension.  I had to tell him, no.  Those extra 3 miles of pipe for him (plus maybe 2 others) was WAY too expensive and then no one would get city water.   He finally gave up.  

Our well would run dry from time to time...   and the water was not very good.  Getting city was a good thing for our area. 

[bikeman564™]

16 minutes ago, Kzoo said:

My mother was born and raised in Highland Park.  But don’t blame her.

I'm not

[Airehead ★]

2500 a year for 32 years. That is a lot of cash for something I don’t want. 

[Further]

12 minutes ago, Airehead said:

2500 a year for 32 years. That is a lot of cash for something I don’t want. 

Each ?

[Bikeguy]

2 hours ago, Airehead said:

If this passes everyone pays even if they do not hook to it. 

 That's just wrong.  

27 minutes ago, Airehead said:

2500 a year for 32 years

And VERY expensive.  

How many people can afford that extra expense?  

[maddmaxx ★]

The tyranny of democracy.

[Thaddeus Kosciuszko]

1 hour ago, Airehead said:

2500 a year for 32 years.

Permit me to guess - you still have to pay the bill for the water you use, in addition to the $2500/yr.

$2500 for 32 years works out - by advanced math - to be somewhat around $80,000.  That is indeed a lot of money.  It seems like there just aren't enough residences and businesses within the water district upon which to divide the cost such that the cost becomes reasonable.

 

[shootingstar]

51 minutes ago, Thaddeus Kosciuszko said:

That is indeed a lot of money.  It seems like there just aren't enough residences and businesses within the water district upon which to divide the cost such that the cost becomes reasonable.

 

That's what it seems like for that high annual fee.

[Ralphie ★]

Holy crap!  That cost is totally absurd. 

[Airehead ★]

8 hours ago, Further said:

Each ?

Each property in the water district

[Razors Edge ★]

13 hours ago, Airehead said:

Agreed. Why did you buy land with a well if you did not want a well!

Around here, it's folks on dirt roads expecting them to be paved.

It sucks because gravel roads are the BEST for ... gravel bikes! I never want those roads paved!!!  But folks also seem to complain about housing costs in the "developed" places like towns, villages, and cities, and so consider a cheaper place outside of town - with no water hookup, a gravel road, no cell towers, and crummy internet.   Then they get all uppity thinking the city folks should pay to build their roads, expand their water systems, and figure out how to get "modern" conveniences to their rustic locations.  

Northern Virginia sees this sort of one-way flow of dollars from up here to the rural counties.  Such is life, I guess.

[Airehead ★]

2 minutes ago, Razors Edge said:

Around here, it's folks on dirt roads expecting them to be paved.

It sucks because gravel roads are the BEST for ... gravel bikes! I never want those roads paved!!!  But folks also seem to complain about housing costs in the "developed" places like towns, villages, and cities, and so consider a cheaper place outside of town - with no water hookup, a gravel road, no cell towers, and crummy internet.   Then they get all uppity thinking the city folks should pay to build their roads, expand their water systems, and figure out how to get "modern" conveniences to their rustic locations.  

Northern Virginia sees this sort of one-way flow of dollars from up here to the rural counties.  Such is life, I guess.

Exactly-- I don't want city slickers in my quiet little area.

[Razors Edge ★]

Just now, Airehead said:

Exactly-- I don't want city slickers in my quiet little area.

Yep. Most just want our $$$   

Please keep up the good fight!  We need our gravel roads and our places to get away from "civilization".  It's hard to get away if, when you get there, there is a all the comforts of home already waiting.