Matt Ryan and the Citizen Action Council Raising Binghamton Water Rates 42%
By Jim Willis on Mar 21, 2008 in City Council, Government & Politics, Mayor Matt Ryan | Printable Version
It seems (gasp) that Binghamton is losing population. Can you imagine that? A city run by socialists? A veritable socialist paradise where we have the good fortune to have a Democrat/Socialist mayor and seven Democrat/Socialist city council members? The nerve!
Yes dear readers, people (like this author) are moving out of the City of Binghamton in droves precisely because the people who run it are 100% clueless and are ruining it. Don’t worry, your faithful observer of all things Greater Binghamton isn’t going far–off to a local municipality that is not Binghamton, but close enough to keep an eye on things.
The latest evidence of mismanagement from Mayor Ryan and the Citizen Action Council (formerly known as the Binghamton City Council) is to raise our already VERY HIGH water rates by 42%! Why? Because we have less population and prices are rising for chemicals. This kind of logic computes only for socialist nitwits. Instead of doing the hard work of getting the water department under control and figuring out how to pay for overruns by cutting costs elsewhere, they will just pass it on to the already overburdened taxpayers of the city. What happens? More people move out–a vicious cycle.
Hey, you voted for them. Now you’re getting what you deserve.
Read more about it in today’s Press & Sun-Bulletin:
Costs, population loss drive city’s water rate increase
(Notice how the article euphemizes taxpaying households and businesses by calling them “entities”.)
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Brent | Mar 21, 2008 | Reply
The water issue is reminiscent of what happened in Johnson City last year. They asked us all to “conserve” water…People responded…Then they jacked up the prices because not enough water was being used and water revenues decreased. Arrgghhhh!
Jim Willis | Mar 21, 2008 | Reply
I remember that one Brent! The same thing has happened in Bingo in the past too (under Bucci). Not enough water was used, revenue went down, so they raised the rates. This has been going on since we’ve lived in Bingo. My wife reminds me when we moved to Binghamton some 11 years ago the rates we paid for sewer and water were about $89 per quarter. Today it’s about $300 per quarter! That’s $1200 per year, or $100 per month. And they want to raise it 42%!!!!!! They’re smokin’ some good weed down at City Hall.
Bob Smith | May 16, 2008 | Reply
Mr. Willis, have you been duped by the Press & Sun-Bulletin and Mayor Matthew T.Ryan?
The actual total increase in Binghamotn water rates will be 81% (eighty-one percent).
Dec. ‘06 the rate was at $1.65 per 100 cybic/ft and by August 2009 it will be $2.99.
Jim Willis | May 18, 2008 | Reply
Thanks for your post Bob. Good question. I would say I have been duped! I relied on the P&SB’s numbers–never do that. I saw no mention of the $1.65 rate from December ‘06. Out of curiosity, where did you find that number? I guess I could have/should have looked at old water bills we have, but I’ve not seen that number before in the press accounts of this story. Good going though! Thanks for bringing it to my attention.