(Part 1 of this article, published in Friday’s paper, focused on the reasons for Benicia’s water and sewer rate increases. Today’s article aims to explore solutions.) So what can be done about the cost of water and wastewater? I have heard many suggestions as to the causes of the rate increases and how to fix […]
Greg Gartrell: Understanding the water rate increases (Part 1)
As the City Council prepares to review water and wastewater rates and revenues, it would be good to review facts about these issues, in part because I have heard so much speculation over the past months that is simply wrong. Let’s start with: How did we get to a point where a big rate increase […]
Opinion: For the Community Sustainability Commission, a way forward
IN AN OPED ON SUNDAY, Community Sustainability Commission member Kathy Kerridge attempted to “correct the record” but only revealed more problems with the process the CSC has used to award grants. I will only address some of those problems. Attempting to justify the CSC’s accounting of water savings for their own proposed project, Ms. Kerridge […]
Opinion: Time for CSC to take step back
A RECENT HERALD ARTICLE about the Benicia Community Sustainability Commission (“CSC puts brakes on suspension of grants,” Nov. 19) suggested that some of the CSC’s members still do not “get it” that the City Council, not they, makes city policy. It was reported that some commission members “remained upset that the panel’s recommendations were not followed […]