N. Cape Water Project

[GoingBroke]

Who is going to pay for all of the abandoned houses in N Cape to have City water hooked up? Let me guess. The taxpayers? With North Cape Coral being the poorest section in the city, they should have either NOT put in the new water lines (our wells work just fine) OR they should bill each home owner according to income.$17,000.00 per house is ridiculous! Does anyone know when the next town meeting on this issue is?

[PROTEST]

There will be a PROTEST at City Hall on July 13th of July, be there!!

[Little Debbie]

GoingBroke. I have heard that it's going to be a $6,000.00 fee in N. Cape.

S. Cape are the ones facing the $17,000.00 water bill.

Either way. It's TOO much money!

[Jeff]

All of you that are belly aching now knew when you purchased your home that sooner or later water and sewer would come into your area. I'm not going to pay for your mistake of not saving money for this so DEAL WITH IT!!!!

[Little Debbie]

On again...Off again...I just wish they'd make up their minds!

[crap coral]

Judged:

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City of Cape Coral is Pleading for help Citizens crying out!

We the citizens are begging for your help.Our council is wanting to put utilities through ,at about 18,000.00, and it cost another 3,500, to hook up from the road to your house . we ARE the third town in the US in economic CRISIS. our unemployment rate is climbing over 13 %,People homeless families without food and jobs and those barely hanging on. The city went ahead and built a un-needed RO waterplant way before due time (they put the cart before the horse) so to speak, We are "The citizens begging that they postpone this for 2-3 years until the economy may recover somewhat,Also OUR Mayor is involved in ownership of the company, we need lower costs,I should call this definate conflict of intrest.The citizens fought and won.Now 1 week later Delores Bertollini brought this issue back to the table.NO is NO!!!!!!!!!! We need your help this city is a mess and the citizens are disgusted with the POOR city Management(while he is now seeking County Manager he has no intrest in whats best for us ,this citys failing at a rapid rate.Please step in and assist the citizens.With great apprication!
Paul & Debra Nelson

We are turning into foreclosure alley HELP

BY the way OUR big Public Works Director , CHUCK PAVLOS-who plays a major role in this "DOES NOT LIVE IN CAPE CORAL" he drives from NORTH FORT MYERS IN OUR CITY PAID CAR WITH FREE GAS. So whats that? Our intrest?Yeah right!
Most of the uep workers are from out of town , meanwhile -WE need to employ our own city workers,the whole thing is CRAZY!!!!

[bad move]

Hello Everyone,

After receiving several responses to my recent email, it became apparent that many of you have not heard the latest news regarding the Utilities Expansion...

This past Monday at the Council meeting, Delores Bertolini moved to have a "reconsideration" vote regarding the SW6/7 UEP project for water, sewer and irrigation. That motion was seconded by Gloria Tate and then supported by Derrick Donnell and Tim Day! So, those items have been added to the August 31 agenda and will be voted on again! Yes, that's correct, voted on AGAIN!

Unless we mount an all-out protest once again (calls, emails and a significant presence at that meeting) I can assure you that it will pass this time. This is truly irresponsible behavior of biblical proportions.

That's why we need everyone to work together to voice the will of We, The People. Our friends in N1-8, do not be fooled. They will bring your project back for another vote as soon as they dispense with the 6,000+ owners in SW6/7.

Now I'll put the frosting on the cake for you...

Council Member Brandt asked the Council if I could present a written, 45-day action plan that was intended to address and resolve payment for the $140 million Kismet water plant and determine specifically how to minimize any rate increases that have been attributed to the UEP stoppage (in support of our existing rate payers).

Our visionary Mayor, Jim Burch, denied that request and said that we would just be taking up the Council's time. If that's not a strong message that we need John Sullivan as our new mayor, I'll eat my nearly new well and septic system.

Get mad and don't take this any more. Tell them how you feel. Show up in force. Don't let them abuse us like this.

Stay tuned for more...

[Moon Goddess]

I live in N.E. Cape Coral and I'm really excited about getting city water. With all of the well equipment on the side of a house, comes many problems and tons of maintenance. Not to mention, every time the power goes out, that means the water goes out as well.

I just don't see how they're coming to a price of over $15,000.00 per house for the convenience of having water...It doesn't seem fair. Our taxes and other bills go up every year as it is. People in this part of town simply cannot afford a fee like this! That's the reason we chose this part of town in the first place. It's really for the 'blue collar', working class poor who just don't have an extra fifteen grand laying around!!

Yes we need City water, but not at that price.

[WASTE]

It will be $6,000.00 North 1-8, another 3,500 to hook up from the road to your house .later "who knows when with this city , again you will have to pay for sewer to be collapsed and sewer when they run that thorugh , The meeting is Monday at 4:30 at City hall try to go you'll be surprised what you see! They really dont care about us the citizens.
Pete Brandt and Bille Diele & Grill are in for the citizens , the rest can rot in hell for all I care.

[WASTE]

To the editor:

The sewer and water rate payers of our city are angry because their average bills will be increased by 92 percent over the next five years. I am one of those people. Unfortunately their anger is directed toward the wrong people and that is because both local newspapers have done a very poor job of investigative reporting. Most people believe those rates are going up because the UEP expansion was stopped and therefor there will be fewer people paying for the expansion. What the public has not been told is that the bulk of the expansion was not needed and the money spent to build the Kismet RO Plant was literally wasted.

The plan to expand which was worth tens of millions of profits to MWH, was started in 2004. Some unknown members of the city staff directed our water plant to start selling huge amounts of water to the Lee County and Pine Island Water Utilities. I believe the motive for those sales which continued through 2007 was to make it appear that we were running out of water capacity and needed to expand. Rules say that such sales should only occur in "emergencies" and someone will have to prove to me that this emergency lasted two to three years. During this period, water produced by our SW RO plant went from under 9 million gallons per day to over 13 million gallons per day and that triggered the need to start planning to expand. The law did not say we had to expand, it said we should conduct a study to see if we had to expand. The city hired Tetra Tech to do that study and it told Tetra Tech it would supply the growth data used in the study. I examined that data and concluded it used false data intentionally designed to create a report which said we needed to more than double our capacity. In fact the company which stood to profit from this expansion (MWH) was asked to provide some of the data used which was a clear conflict of interest. Bottom line is our city staff allowed phoney numbers to be used in the study and it never subtracted the water sold to the other two utilities from the study data.

When we were no longer selling to those two utilities, the average production went from over 13 million gallons per day in 2006, to less than 10 million gallons per day in 2008. The so-called emergency disappeared. Predictions that we would be using an average of 15.2 million gallons per day in 2008 never materialized. The expansion of the SWRO plant from 15 to 18.1 million gallons per day was more than enough to satisfy our current rate of growth. We definitely did not need the additional 12 million gallons per day the Kismet plant would provide. There is also over 500 million gallons of water produced which is unaccounted for each year. It just disappears.

Bottom line we spent over $140 million to build the Kismet plant which was not needed and there are plans on the table to spend an additional $350 million for facilities not needed. And that is why our rates are going up and that is why our anger should be directed to the city staff and not the people north of Pine Island road.

Sal Grosso

Cape Coral

[sueki]

who in the hell would live in the ghetto with theses idiots running the govt there. there not worth the money they make and govt so greety for money. go to washington and ask our buckwheat president for more.