The new budget passed by the Greensboro City Council includes the following increases:
Water rates: 10.25%
Sewer rates: 7.25%
Stormwater rates: 20%
It should be noted that many of the city’s fees had been increased nearly every year since time immemorial. The increases this year are exorbitant.
That is the cost of having a political arrangement in which the interests of two main power groups– and a commitment to “progressivism”– are furthered; and the taxpaying citizens are effectively disenfranchised. We have been ignored far too long.
Greensboro taxpayers in the Peoples Republic pay the piper but have very little representation.
Arguably, Fred, we have NO representation. The City Council is a facade– a sham.