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@warwickguy & connor:

Please forgive me if I am mischaracterizing your statements however based on what you wrote it is clear to me that you have no issue with the inefficiencies and mismanagement in our government at all levels.

As long as the cause is noble, and cleaning up the bay is a noble cause, Warwick resident shouldn’t complain or question our government officials. Simply continue to fork over tens of millions of dollars of our earnings in the form of new property taxes, car taxes, sewer assessment fees, usage fees as long as the government can accomplish these noble causes. Using our money in a cost effective, efficient manner is secondary to accomplishing the goal.

I guess President Obama already spending $634 million on development of the national healthcare web site with projections that the final cost will exceed $1 billion, when the initial cost was projected at $93 million, is ok too, since universal healthcare is a noble cause?

Regarding the Warwick Sewer Authority (WSA), and why people like Norm88 and Patientman are critical of how it has been operated, consider these facts:

1 The WSA is $108 million in debt as a result of under assessing past sewer projects, and;

2 has increased user rates 100% in 6 years, and;

3 approximately 50 % of your sewer usage bill goes to pay WSA debt service, and;

4 due to chronic operational shortfalls, the WSA owes the city $ 5 million, and:

5 Moody’s investment firm has placed Warwick on a negative credit watch because of this and other unfunded liabilities.

I am always appreciate when additional Warwick residents chime in on these blogs. However before you castigate others for questioning our elected and appointed city leaders (WSA board) regarding how they spend our tax dollars; you really need to educate yourself on the budgetary facts and trends in the city if you really care about our children and their future.

I hope you will discover that the City of Warwick has some serious issues that are not being addressed by the current leadership in the city and get more involved with the political process. Maybe we will someday stop re-electing the same people who have caused all these problems.

Please copy and paste these links into your browser and take a look a these two documents that analyzes city and school spending over the last ten years and the future liabilities our children will be paying for when they are adults and then explain to me how much confidence you have in our current elected and appointed city leaders in solving these problems.

Budget: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6P1sIPd4PTdTkI5WF9NM1pjVXM/edit?usp=sharing

Pension: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6P1sIPd4PTdaUxWbDc3TE5TSDg/edit?usp=sharing

From: Panel backs $56 million in sewer bonds

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