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On May 7 the Fullerton City Council approved two resolutions to charge more money to provide water to the city’s residents. The council unanimously approved a simple pass-through increase to ratepayers to accommodate higher costs charged by the Metropolitan Water District. Such an increase was all but unavoidable.
The other measure, however, adopted in a split vote with Mayor Bruce Whitaker and Councilmember Greg Sebourn dissenting, enshrined a dubious formula for determining the cost of service the city will now charge its own water utility for the foreseeable future.
Last summer a council majority of Bruce Whitaker, Greg Sebourn, and Travis Kiger stripped away a 10% en lieu water fee perpetuated even after 1996‘s Prop. 218 made such levies illegal without approval by voters. It was supposed to be a cost of service fee for water delivery, though it was never applied for such a purpose.
Recognizing that it was wrong to continue an illegal tax, Whitaker, Sebourn and Kiger voted to refund the maximum amount allowable back to the ratepayers. The November election altered these plans, however, by seating new council members who were not as responsive to the taxpayers…
Read more at http://fullertonrag.com/2013/05/08/opening-the-tap-on-water-rates/
Good move on ending the water levi use but thank god Kiger is long gone. Worst thing Fullerton ever voted into office. Far worse than the old bald tires, which says alot!!
Truth hurts.
“Truth hurts.”
Uh huh, hurts enough to cripple you into a ridiculous, one trick pony.
I don’t think much (this is an understatement) of Travis as a city councilperson, but the notion that he’s the worst anything in the long and storied history of Fullerton misgovernance is dangerously, laughably, tragically silly.
*Say the Magic Word – Don Bankhead….and the Duck will come down
and give you $100 dollars…
Looks like Bushala and his boys are still paying for their illegal actions during their smear campaigns? Only the tip of the iceberg. Just want until he pays out on all the lawsuits. “Love hurts” baby.
http://www.fppc.ca.gov/agendas/05-13/5Bushala%20-%20Stip%20and%20Exh.pdf
I was going to go with “Love Hurts.”
My apologies to everyone who now has that song going through their head. Ryan made me do it.