Letter to the Editor

To the Editor:

Concerned Citizens: $20 license fees, $18 Garbage fees, and .02 percent sales tax.

I would like to think that I do not have to tell the city council, Mayor and administrator the fi- nancial problems we have in this world. The Waitsburg city residents are struggling to live in the middle of four surrounding counties and cities that have unemployment at 13.5 percent. We got a surprise on our utility bills this month for garbage pickup-we now have to pay a fuel surcharge. This charge will be a forever thing if garbage companies elect to keep it there. This is not bad, but our city council and staff would like another 12.5 percent charge over that, so they can add it to our bill, with all that red tape they already have a 12.5 percent charge on the $17.45 cents they collect. This figures about $1.97 a bill or $800 an hour for their billing expertise, or administrative fees. (A little humor doesn't hurt when things seem so bad.)

The little couple of lines in the letter the citizens of Waitsburg got to read about: We never used any water over the allotted amount so the city is short on money. We don't get congratulated for our conservation, like we were asked to do. We get another tax.

We were told to water at night, mornings and cloudy days, this was told to us several times during the summer months. Shame on us for listening, and doing as told.

I have to speak up. I'm sorry our mayor took a job out of town so he could make ends meet.

Ron Mings, Waitsburg