The Board needs to stop fighting consolidation
Last year, the Board spent over $400,000 in legal and public relations fees fighting a consolidation that would have saved the water users money. In addition, the approved budget for 1998-1999 includes a line item of $195,000 to expand the existing board room. All this is totally unneeded for a Board that supervises just three full time employees and pays its part time general manager $73,000 per year. Consolidation with another agency will eliminate these wasteful expenditures.
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