More fiscal irresponsibility
To the editor:
Commenting on Michael Newton’s letter to the editor on Jan. 30: Thank you for your thoughts on the city’s wild spending on speculation land purchases of over $13 million. I believe this goes along with an editorial a few weeks ago that the Cape Coral Breeze had about the city’s fiscal irresponsibility in dishing out 10 percent raises to the police and fire departments.
Did the city manager mention that the $13 million for land purchases came from the water department account? Taking $13 million from an account that has doubled our rates to pay for the water plant on Kismet is certainly another one of the city’s acts of “fiscal irresponsibility.” This $13 million should have been returned to the water customers and helped lower our rates back to where they were prior to building this new plant.
What really scares me is that the city manager in the last propaganda paper, “On The Move” stated, and I quote the article, “We were able to eliminate the need for future rate increases, which keeps our overall utility bills the lowest in Lee County.”
Our rates prior to the new water plant construction were OK then, in fact they had enough money to start the new charter schools from money taken from the water account. They only raised the rates to pay for the new plant and they need to return to the same rate as they were prior to construction
Richard C. Perry
Cape Coral