By Patricia Bogumil
Town of Waterford Sanitary District commissioners worked out the details of a proposed 2014 budget at their Sept. 11 meeting. The results are a net overall WSD budget decrease of 1.17 percent.
But a hoped-for drop in quarterly user fees is not part of the budget proposal. It could be added partway through 2014, when commissioners will conduct a review to see if a user rates reduction will hold up, according to Board President Dan Dickinson.
“I personally feel that our rates are too high,” Dickinson said. “I’ve felt that before and I continue to feel that.”
A planned-for orderly budget process was negatively impacted by the unexpected departure of the district’s administrator on July 28, when long-time employee Debbie Nelson emailed commissioners that she felt her job had been eliminated by changes that are being put in place.
As a result, KJ Tax and Accounting, which had been assuming some job duties that for years were part of the administrator position, had to step in “to keep us going,” Dickinson explained, “and we did not have an optimal opportunity to go through the budget with a fine-tooth comb.”
“I still feel we are going to be able to improve our rates,” he added. Dickinson said he expects a budget review to be placed on the agenda within the next six months.
See the full story in the Sept. 20, 2013 edition of the Waterford Post.
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