Litchfield Independent Review - City considers way to lessen burden of sewer rate increase - Comments

cml3165, What is happening

scott hornemann — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 12:03:18 -0600

cml3165, What is happening to you is that you have set your signature to be Citizen. This will appear at the top of the comment box. All you have to do is start typing before that word and then it will become your signature. Otherwise you can go into your user profile and erase the signature that you ad set up at some point. Sorry, I am a little late getting to this thread, but better late than never, right?
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you probably have to go into

LitchRes — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 13:20:12 -0600

you probably have to go into your user profile and double check everything, especially your username.

The other option is to simply delete the word citizen from the comment box.

cml3165 that is what shows

Lisa — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 23:37:12 -0600

cml3165

that is what shows up as your name.

Citizen When I login a

cml3165 — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 21:04:27 -0600

Citizen
When I login a Comment* box come up. In that box at the top is the word Citizen. Just like it is in this box. Not sure why you are not seeing it.

cml3165 The problem lies

Brent Schacherer — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 09:47:12 -0600

cml3165

The problem lies with your computer, not with the site. If you're having problems, please e-mail the specific issue and I can try to help you "Citizen" is not appearing in your posts.

Brent Schacherer, editor

Citizen Sorry but the word

cml3165 — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 08:23:59 -0600

Citizen

Sorry but the word Citizen just comes up when I login. I have no clue why it does this. It is put on there by the Independant Review. I am not calling anyone Citizen. Sorry if it made anyone feel bad, I did not mean to do that. I will see if they can take that off.

So Brent if you read these can you get rid of that word?

Lisa, I also do not like

mike ziegler — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 21:46:33 -0600

Lisa, I also do not like being called citizen. I have only noticed one person addressing people that way and I feel like she is talking down to me. Almost as if she is a queen, the mayor, a council member or something. I know Litchfields mayor and he is much too respectful not to address anyone other than by their name.

Ok stupid question coming

Lisa — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 15:42:39 -0600

Ok stupid question coming here to you all........

why do you all say citizen and not the person's name? why not just say well litriches or cml or Lisa or jolly...... why citizen, makes it seems like we are these ignorant hillbillys who need adressing. Not starting anything just my opinion is all.

It still goes back to what I

LitchRes — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 08:13:39 -0600

It still goes back to what I commented on earlier. Innovex is gone, therefore they are not demanding, using, and wasting all of that water. Therefore there is less demand on the system that supplies the water (wells) and the treatment of it (treatment plant).

Bottom line, I think there is more to this than meets the eye.

Citizen Innovex was a large

cml3165 — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 20:22:58 -0600

Citizen
Innovex was a large can I say HUGE water user. They had multiple process that required a lot of water. Wal-Mart just has bathrooms and a small kitchen, Tire shop just bathrooms. To put this in perspective we would have needed over (maybe alot over) 1000 bathrooms and 300 kitchens to equally what they used. They did processes similar to HTI which uses the equivalent of Lake Minnebell each year. Although Innovex was not quite that big,they may have been half the size. I do not know how much is used by Tech Etch but they only occupy half of the space.

I am glad your council person is doing a good job. They can always use a kind word.

I know and understand that

LitchRes — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 12:02:34 -0600

I know and understand that there is still an overhead for the city that has to be covered. I am just trying to figure out why there is a $120,000 loss when the city has gained Walmart, the new DOT building, the new Tire shop and everything else that has sprung up on the east end of town. I would think there would be some offset with the new businesses.

My councilman is great, he has been to my door taking a poll in the past to see how the citizens in his ward felt about a topic. He was doing a great job!

Citizen I know it can be

cml3165 — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 09:12:26 -0600

Citizen
I know it can be confusing. The city has costs weither the plants, water or sewage treatment, have any use at all. It is called overhead. Meaning the plants still need to be paid for, maintained, and staffed. The sewage plant is actully working at capacity due to very good customers who employ many people. The water plant is also working. This plant was sized to accomodate a large water user (Innovex). When a large user, who paid higher rates than a homeowner, leaves, the operational costs are still there. This makes a burden on every customer that must be made up. The city was trying to soften the blow to the average homeowner. They will not make any money and will actually lose some by doing that. I beleive that most of the council does care for it's citizens. Some even feel the same pain with the increases that have been happening. They are not all "rich". Look to some of our neighbors who have water and sewage bills that ammount to $200 per month. Because Litchfield has good industrys to help pay the costs the homeowner actaully gets a very good deal. If you need more explinations you can call any city council member. I have found they are usually willing to talk to the pople they represent as long as you are polite.

Wait a minute....I am

LitchRes — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 17:20:47 -0600

Wait a minute....I am confused....if Innovex paid $120,000 a year, that means they "produced" $120,000 worth of sewage. Since the plant closed, they are not "contributing" that same amount, which should have lessened the "load" at the treatment plant, therefore lowering the overall costs to the city.

And what about Walmarts new "contribution" to the city sewage?? Arent they paying and probably making up for the innovex loss??

Maybe poor money management is the real problem. Too easy to point the finger at a company that no longer exists and therefore an easy excuse to be sucked into.

sure why not stick it to the

Lisa — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 14:30:08 -0600

sure why not stick it to the poor some more****

How much money do they need?

mnjeepgurl — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 12:43:21 -0600

How much money do they need? "To cover those missing dollars"? If you ask me, no matter how they "soften the blow to our wallets", thats a big increase. So lets just steal from the poor because the city doesn't have the extra million dollars in their pockets to play with. Maybe we should go back to the "out house days" and sit back and watch them struggle living paycheck to paycheck and see how they like it.

City considers way to lessen burden of sewer rate increase

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