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8. This is the third year in a row that the Long Beach Water Department
Board of Commissioners has recommended rate increases, while it has
sat silent about the City of Long Beach transferring millions of dollars in
water department revenue into its General Fund. The Long Beach
Board of Commissioners has not met its fiduciary duty to its ratepayers
because it has failed to challenge the City's assessment or to demand
an accounting of how the assessment is spent by the City of Long
Beach. By not doing so, the Board of Water Commissioners has
subjected its ratepayers to increases and increases in the 5% utility
users tax which is assessed on the amount of water use billed. So the
City gets two bites of the revenue stream: pipeline fees and increased
utility taxes at the expense of ratepayers.
Sincerely,
Gerrie Schipske
Gerrie Schipske