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From Art Wuerth, the city’s Finance Director:
SUMMARY: MOST OF CITY HALL UTILITY BUDGET IS STORM DRAIN CHARGES FOR DUNES
The 2010 General Fund appropriation includes a line item in the City Hall department of $255,000 budgeted for Utilities. (Page 59 of the 12/14/09 Adopted Budget)
$240,000 (or $20,000 per month) is budgeted to pay the City’s share of the Storm Drain charge for the City-owned dune areas.
The remaining $15,000 is for various other utility charges (e.g., water, sewer, garbage, electricity) applicable to the (two buildings of the) City Hall.
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Every lot pays the Utility Fee for Storm Drain. The Utilities are separate entities. Therefore, the City is a property owner and needs to pay the fees just like everyone else. They pay for the water and sewer too.
Water is considered a common enemy in Washington State. That is why these utilities get formed and everyone pays.
Storm Drain in OS is basically the ditches. Storm Drain does not need to be pipes, pumps and facilities.
The RIG group needs to get from Finance the “secret” decoder ring for where they dump expenditures. Either that or demand that they start using the new software properly and delineate more detailed definitions of expenditures. Too many slush funds or non-descript buckets of money. If it is computers or network equipment, call it that. If it is Network Professional Services, call it that too. Do not allow shifting of funds to hide payroll items and other actions too. If we say we are buying books, then that is what we are doing with the money. Too many “Peter paying Paul” transactions. Where is the transparency? When transparency is not provided, honesty is questioned.
Wait a minute–is this something we must do for the county or state?
Oh, and if we didn’t drain them, what would happen?
Uh, we charge ourselves to drain storm water out of dunes? So, where are the dunes we drain? And where are we draining them to?