North City Water District: Protecting your freedom to vote for a utility provider
Tuesday, May 12, 2015
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| Gov. Inslee signs Sen. Chase's legislation into law |
The North City Water District is grateful for the support of State Sen. Maralyn Chase, who successfully championed legislation to require a public vote before a city can assume a water or sewer district.
The governor signed this legislation into law last week, with Sen. Chase and members of the North City Water board of commissions and District Manager Diane Pottinger standing by him.
Read the article from North City Water here: Protecting your freedom to vote for a utility provider.
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6 comments:
Congratulations Sen Chase! Hooray for protecting our rights to vote!!
Senator Maralyn Chase is a great champion for open government and citizen access to participation in the decisions that affect their lives. Chase has long been an advocate for transparent democratic process at all levels of government, and this is the latest example of her desire and ability to serve her constituents with meaningful responsive legislation. We're lucky to have her as our state senator.
The link to the North City Water is well worth clicking on to get a fuller picture of what was at stake for that community.
Sweet! I'm totally voting on the city assuming Ronald Waste water!
Having worked at a special purpose utility district for quite a number of years I can tell you that there is not a greater money sink in the world. Very little oversight. Very little citizen participation. Very little fight about rates. A huge amount of money wasted and employees with lots of time on their hands.
The original reason any of these sprang up in the first place was because they were in unincorporated counties and not in cities and people wanted to build. Stand alone utilities aren't necessary in this area any more. They should all be taken over by the city that they are in.
The only reason that there is such a fight and they scream so loud about "takeovers" is because they don't want to lose the sweet, sweet deal they have now.
Funy you should complain about special purpose districts, the favorite thing for cities to create are special purpose districts, such as transportation benefit districts and metropolitan parks districts. Other special purpose districts include scools and fire departments, so you think they are a waste too by your negativity.
I wasn't speaking to special districts - I was speaking to special purpose UTILITY districts. And I stand by my comments. I've been there and I know what I'm talking about.
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