It's Wednesday!

Which means it's the middle of the week, and the week's on the downslide. Amen! However, the bad part of that is that there are now LESS THAN THREE WEEKS LEFT before the election! How did time get away so fast? I wanted to try to visit everybody in town - but when? Between travel for work and wanting to give everyone the time they deserve when I'm talking with them, there's just no possible way! So, for those of you I haven't had a chance to visit with yet, please accept my apologies.

It seems that we've gotten ourself a grant for some of our water and sewer infrastructure needs. HOW AWESOME IS THAT?! For this, there are kudos to be delivered to our entire town staff and our Board of Commissioners. They've done a wonderful job in securing these funds. But this then also begs the question...do we still need to pay the $6 fee now that we won't need as much of the loan? How many loans do we have outstanding? And what about the excess money that we pulled in a few years back when water and sewer rates increased? Is it ALL being used? Is there something we can do to actually lower our rates or our tax base? Where can we cut anything to either lower our rates or do more with it?

I also know that we're looking at several major projects. I've come to the understanding that they are, of course, going to be done in phases. But in doing these projects (specifically with expanding water and sewer), we should not only be able to expand larger areas of town (with really attractive tax values), we also need to examine providing those services to other areas of town that have become neglected - but have great tax values themselves. There are little pockets all over town that don't have sewer due to the function of the topography of the area - now that we've got some breathing room and flexibility, we need to move forward with bringing these folks in town and allowing them not only to have a voice within the town government, but also to enjoy the town services that other citizens enjoy.

My thoughts for today.