LETTER: Metering isn’t the answer

The water meter era is beginning.  

Somehow, I can’t remember our council being elected on the promise of water meters. Divide and conquer – pretty simple.

The council insinuates that, because the money comes from the Province, common sense doesn’t apply. I hate to break it to this council – whether the money is municipal, provincial or federal, there is only one taxpayer. 

With the multiple needs for more cash, was this the best use of our money? Really, who decided this, some bureaucrat?  

Metering is nuts but metering the schools is just insane. They are having a hard time financially as it is. 

The muni says they are doing this for other reasons. Anyone buying that? 

I guess they can tell the kids not to drink much water and they can have an even and odd days rotation for the bathroom? Might sound OK if you say it fast. 

Lack of water is not a problem here, as most will attest.

The District seems to like to place blame on the residents’ excess use of water when, in fact, it is the infrastructure controlled by the District that is the problem. There are more people but the same water supply. Have a consultant figure this out, we can’t. Don’t touch the sun, it’s hot. 

The infrastructure must be fixed and the taxpayers will pay for it. This should be a levy for the repairs that stops when the upgrades have been paid for rather than a metering charge paid by the taxpayers in perpetuity. 

Not only will we pay for the upgrades, we will also pay for unnecessary meters. This permanent tax will end up in General Revenue and wasted. 

More raises. A truism – what government says it could not foresee, the government has planned for.

Why do we have these people hired with certain skills that we pay a premium for, yet everything has to go through a consultant? In private industry a premium is paid for an expert but the expert is on the hook for any decision, good or bad.

These people are paid the same premium but, because all major endeavours go through consultants, they aren’t held accountable for any screw-ups. This has to stop.