I absolutely did not know anything about it ... but I am not surprised.
He just needs to take a long vacation.
It is a little thinner than $1.5 but the bottom line is that we do have a balanced budget.
Our utility rate has not been changed in at least 10 years. In some cases we are selling electricity for less then we are buying it for.
People need to authorize that the city is not out any money. The money we refund is in lieu of money spent on infrastructure.
You can have all the technical expertise in the world. But if you can't get it across in 30 seconds, you're done.
We have complaints all the time about limbs. With this new purchase, we will be able to tell our people that the service will be better soon.
We'll probably have to look at some rate increases.
And, we have been struggling with our rates ever since.
The thing people need to realize is that there is a carry over from year to year in utility money. This year there is a carry over of more than $1.5 million.
Any kind of major development of this sort opens us up even more so.
It should help us because we would be surrounded with another automotive company.
In the end, the cost of this study may be insignificant to the increase in revenue that the rate changes will bring.
The city is really looking at all of its areas.