At the last city council meeting Nov 15, the city approved over 200 more housing units to be built. The Mayor says that were growing in the right way. Is that really true?
How is loosing your right to vote on taxes (utilities) “growing the right way”. I think that called communism where you loose your right to vote. The more residents that own property the harder it is to defeat a utility tax increase. Now we have about 19,000 parcel owners. To defeat a tax increase you need over half of the parcel residents to submit a protest letter and not one person has to vote for a tax increase. Milpitas has the highest sewer rates then any other city in Santa Clara county. Our solders are fighting over seas for the right to vote. Maybe they should come to our city and fight for democracy here instead of fighting over seas. It would cost the taxpayers of the USA a lot less money.
How is increasing the sewage taxes every year on your property progress? Why is it going up every year, it is because of the high demand on sewage infrastructure going up every year. The new sewage plant is costing $2 billion.
How is increasing the demand for water growing the right way? I thought we had a water shortage and we should conserve water usage through low flow toilets and shower heads etc. Oh wait, I guess that does not matter as long as the city can increase the number residents consuming water resources and the council members can get their kickback money from land developers. Let’s just add more residents so that in the future we will be recycling our own toilet water and paying double your current sewage rates. I guess that what the mayor and council members think is progress.
And of course let’s add more parks. If there is anything the city needs it more parks. The city only has 34 parks, and I guess that is just not enough. Why you may ask, because the more parks we have the more water the city can use, but please conserve water so the city can give it to the new residents and create more parks. How that for growing the right way?
How is loosing your right to vote on taxes (utilities) “growing the right way”. I think that called communism where you loose your right to vote. The more residents that own property the harder it is to defeat a utility tax increase. Now we have about 19,000 parcel owners. To defeat a tax increase you need over half of the parcel residents to submit a protest letter and not one person has to vote for a tax increase. Milpitas has the highest sewer rates then any other city in Santa Clara county. Our solders are fighting over seas for the right to vote. Maybe they should come to our city and fight for democracy here instead of fighting over seas. It would cost the taxpayers of the USA a lot less money.
How is increasing the sewage taxes every year on your property progress? Why is it going up every year, it is because of the high demand on sewage infrastructure going up every year. The new sewage plant is costing $2 billion.
How is increasing the demand for water growing the right way? I thought we had a water shortage and we should conserve water usage through low flow toilets and shower heads etc. Oh wait, I guess that does not matter as long as the city can increase the number residents consuming water resources and the council members can get their kickback money from land developers. Let’s just add more residents so that in the future we will be recycling our own toilet water and paying double your current sewage rates. I guess that what the mayor and council members think is progress.
And of course let’s add more parks. If there is anything the city needs it more parks. The city only has 34 parks, and I guess that is just not enough. Why you may ask, because the more parks we have the more water the city can use, but please conserve water so the city can give it to the new residents and create more parks. How that for growing the right way?
