Rates are going up

One final present from the old council: increased rates on our water, sewer, gas and everything else. Gasoline is only $4 bucks a gallon, rice has doubled in price, and we can't eat any tomatoes, but thank goodness we will be able to get financial relief from the city... oh wait. Nevermind.

The city is also going to "tier" water use for big consumers which, if they get their water from the city, may be a double whammy to Golfland if they are able to stay open. All in all, its supposed to raise another $6.5 million in revenue from the city. Combined with the couple more million that they have gotten from decreasing the rental exemption from 3 to 2, shouldn't be about time that the city's budget is balanced?

If its not, shouldn't they be going back through and looking for a few more cuts? At this point, it seems like they have no prodded and squeezed every dollar they could out of the residents. Isn't this where some of that change is supposed to come in?