It’s not enough for the current council to say the water rates and rate structure need fixing and promise to do so. The reason to vote yes on Measure P is to repeal the current rates/rate structure and ensure that the incoming council has the mandate to promptly fix them.

A victory on Measure P will repeal the current structure. The 2013 rates will be in place to provide revenue for the time it takes the new council to approve a simple and logical structure fair to all water users. We don’t need to charge the median homeowner over 40 percent more per gallon used than we charge apartment landlords. We don’t need to charge those who use the same amount of water per year, but use it in the summer versus the winter, much more per gallon year-round.

We need rates that do not penalize one group and favor another. We don’t need a rate structure that charges you this year for what you used last year based on summer use (the “look-back” feature).

The scare tactics of the no on P campaign are baseless and shameful. The claim that Measure P is to stop the water project is false. Other claims that the city would incur fines, penalties or higher interest rates were never raised in the city attorney’s impartial analysis. If there were such a risk, wouldn’t the city attorney have been legally bound to raise them?

I support John Munn because from the beginning he’s had the courage to support yes on Measure P and a direct vote of the people on this issue. His commitment to transparent government and fiscal responsibility and accountability on city finances is what we need today.

Nancy Price
Davis

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